Evidence-based inquiry into the distant, remote, or past (EIDRoP): linking evidence to inference in the Kansas science classroom

项目名称：“对遥远、遥远或过去的循证探究（EIDRoP）：在堪萨斯科学课堂中将证据与推理联系起来”Carolyn J. Ferguson, Timothy Bolton, Srinivas Kambhampati， Iris Moreno Totten和N. Sanjay Rebello（堪萨斯州立大学）公众对科学的误解包括对科学学科中可接受的证据类型的误解，以及科学家从证据到推理的方式的误解。理解可用数据如何提供不能直接体验或操纵的对象或事件的信息，对学生来说尤其具有挑战性。通过“对遥远、遥远或过去的基于证据的探究（EIDRoP）”，堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）生物科学、地球科学和物理学研究生将与Junction City高中（475美元）的导师教师合作，开发和教授符合国家科学探究和科学本质标准的学科特定和跨学科课程。专业发展活动包括一个暑期学院、一个研究员班和一个年度顶点会议。项目目标是：提高青年科学家作为有效沟通者和教育合作者的能力；通过注入当代科学研究、综合强调科学本质、跨学科教学模块和提供科学家榜样，改善9-12年级学生的科学教育；透过教师培训、与本校师生互动及丰富课程，提升9至12年级教师的知识；加强475美元与KSU STEM部门的合作关系；扩大KSU内部以及KSU与K-12教育之间的合作伙伴关系。EIDRoP将在加强教育（包括研究员、学生、教师和教职员工）方面产生更广泛的影响，并将推动大学科学系与K-12教育之间互动的科学教育文化变革。

GK-12 project abstractProject title: "Evidence-based inquiry into the distant, remote, or past (EIDRoP): linking evidence to inference in the Kansas science classroom"Investigators: Carolyn J. Ferguson, Timothy Bolton, Srinivas Kambhampati, Iris Moreno Totten and N. Sanjay Rebello (Kansas State University)Much public misunderstanding of science involves misconceptions regarding the types of evidence accepted within scientific disciplines as well as the manner in which scientists move from evidence to inference. Understanding how available data can provide information about objects or events that cannot be directly experienced or manipulated is particularly challenging to students. Through "Evidence-based inquiry into the distant, remote, or past (EIDRoP)", Kansas State University (KSU) graduate fellows in the biological sciences, geosciences and physics will work with mentor teachers at Junction City High School (USD 475) to develop and teach both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary lessons responsive to state standards in science as inquiry and the nature of science. Professional development activities include a Summer Institute, a fellows class and an annual Capstone Meeting. Program goals are to: enhance young scientists' abilities as effective communicators and as educational collaborators; improve science education for grade 9-12 students through the infusion of contemporary science research, an integrated emphasis on nature of science, interdisciplinary teaching modules and provision of scientist role models; enhance the knowledge of grade 9-12 teachers through teacher training, interaction with KSU students and faculty, and curriculum enrichment; strengthen USD 475's partnerships with STEM departments at KSU; and expand collaborative partnerships within KSU and between KSU and K-12 education. EIDRoP will have extensive broader impacts in terms of enhancing education (of fellows, students, teachers and faculty), and will drive a cultural change in science education with respect to interactions between University science departments and K-12 education.