Looking inside high school science classrooms: An exploration of males' and females' subjective experience

探究高中科学课堂：男性和女性主观体验的探索

• 批准号: 0827526
• 负责人: Jennifer Schmidt
• 金额: $ 47.61万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0827526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Looking; inside; science; classrooms; exploration

This project will provide a descriptive account of what a variety of high school science contexts feel like from the perspective of female and male students. This three-year project, to be conducted through Northern Illinois University, is focused on immediate outcomes; namely, individuals' momentary levels of cognitive and affective engagement while involved in everyday science activity. The project will systematically record students' classroom experiences as they happen, linking various aspects of subjective experience to specific courses, content units, and classroom activities. Using a combination of surveys, interviews, classroom observations, and experience sampling techniques, this mixed-methods research will make a unique contribution to the understanding of the daily processes that contribute to the engagement of both females and males in science. The intellectual merit of this project is that it will provide crucial foundational knowledge about students? actual experiences in science classes. This information will fill a gap in the literature in science education in that it will explore affective processes involved in learning. The broader impact of this project is that it could have substantial effects on instructional practices, course design and curriculum in high school science education. The project is positioned to produce a strong knowledge base about the affective and motivational components of science learning, linking particular subjective states to specific courses, content units, and instructional practices. Beyond this, if the expected gender differences are found in students? subjective experience, the findings could suggest specific ways to alter science curricula in an effort to fully engage males and females in science classrooms.

该项目将从男女学生的角度描述各种高中科学环境的感受。这个为期三年的项目将由北伊利诺伊大学实施，重点关注立竿见影的成果；即个人在参与日常科学活动时的瞬时认知和情感参与水平。该项目将系统地记录学生的课堂体验，将主观体验的各个方面与特定课程、内容单元和课堂活动联系起来。这项混合方法研究结合了调查、访谈、课堂观察和经验抽样技术，将为理解有助于女性和男性参与科学的日常过程做出独特的贡献。该项目的智力优点在于它将提供有关学生的重要基础知识？科学课上的实际经验。这些信息将填补科学教育文献中的空白，因为它将探索学习中涉及的情感过程。该项目更广泛的影响在于，它可能对高中科学教育的教学实践、课程设计和课程产生重大影响。该项目旨在建立关于科学学习的情感和动机成分的强大知识库，将特定的主观状态与特定的课程、内容单元和教学实践联系起来。除此之外，学生中是否存在预期的性别差异？根据主观经验，研究结果可以提出改变科学课程的具体方法，以努力让男性和女性充分参与科学课堂。