Expanding and Sustaining Understanding Evolution

扩展和维持对进化的理解

• 批准号: 0841757
• 负责人: Roy Caldwell
• 金额: $ 1.33万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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: 2008-10-15 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0841757&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; Sustaining; Understanding; Evolution

The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) will bring together an experienced group of evolution educators in order to inform the development and maintenance of an effective resource for improving evolution education at the college level. This effort falls under the umbrella of UCMP's highly successful Understanding Evolution (UE) project (http://evolution.berkeley.edu), which currently receives over one million page requests per month during the school year. UE was originally designed around the needs of the K-12 education community; however, increasingly, the site is being used by the undergraduate education community. UCMP intends to embark on an effort to enhance the utility of the UE site for that population, increase awareness of the site at the college level, and secure the project's future so that it can continue to serve K-16 teachers and students. To inform and guide these efforts, UCMP proposes to establish and convene a UE Advisory Board, which will be charged with helping to: (1) identify the characteristics and needs of college-level target learners and their instructors with respect to evolution, (2) articulate the recommended components for expanding the UE site to include an Undergraduate Lounge in which students and their instructors will be able to access a variety of resources for increasing understanding of evolution, (3) develop a strategic plan for increasing awareness of UE within the undergraduate education community, and (4) develop a strategic plan for maintenance and continued growth of the UE site.

加州大学古生物学博物馆(UCMP)将汇集一批经验丰富的进化论教育工作者，以便为开发和维护一种有效的资源来改进大学一级的进化论教育提供信息。这项工作隶属于UMP非常成功的理解进化(UE)项目(http://evolution.berkeley.edu)，)，该项目目前在学年期间每月收到100多万页请求。UE最初是围绕K-12教育社区的需求而设计的；然而，该网站越来越多地被本科生教育社区使用。UCMP打算着手努力提高UE网站对这些人口的效用，提高大学一级对该网站的认识，并确保该项目的未来，使其能够继续为K-16教师和学生服务。为了向这些努力提供信息并指导这些工作，UCMP提议成立并召集一个UE咨询委员会，该委员会将负责帮助：(1)确定大学水平的目标学习者及其教师在进化方面的特点和需求，(2)阐明扩展UE站点的建议组成部分，包括一个本科生休息室，学生及其教师将能够在其中获得各种资源，以增加对进化的了解，(3)制定战略计划，以提高本科生教育界对UE的认识，以及(4)制定UE站点维护和持续发展的战略计划。