Creating an Academic Community to Foster Curiosity and Discovery in Introductory Geoscience Classes

创建学术社区以培养地球科学入门课程的好奇心和发现能力

• 批准号: 0942390
• 负责人: Karen Grove
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: San Francisco State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0942390&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Academic; Community; Foster; Curiosity

AbstractThis project creates a Teaching and Learning Community (TLC) composed of faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates who are combining their professional and curricular development efforts to improve instruction in geology, meteorology and oceanography lab courses. The TLC is also working to improve student learning in associated lecture courses via the transfer of skills developed by students enrolled in the labs. The project develops, adapts, and refines lab materials that not only incorporate a consistent inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach, real-world data, and problems relevant to students, but also explicitly address the process of science. The project work is being facilitated by a computer-equipped Geoscience Exploration Laboratory (GEL), developed in part via this project, which is providing students with opportunities to collect their own data, use computer tools to analyze, visualize, interpret, synthesize and present their results and interpretations. This is helping students to develop valuable thinking and communication skills at an early stage in their university careers. The evaluation plan consists of both formative and summative components that track student learning and attitudes as well as the professional development of faculty and graduate students who are involved in teaching the laboratory courses. The outcomes of the project include a widely disseminated lab manual, a national workshop that actively disseminates the project results, and the dissemination of evaluation results that are of interest to the larger STEM community.

这个项目创建了一个由教师、研究生和高级本科生组成的教学与学习社区(TLC)，他们正在结合他们的专业和课程发展努力来改善地质学、气象学和海洋学实验室课程的教学。TLC还致力于通过转移在实验室注册的学生发展的技能来改善学生在相关讲座课程中的学习。该项目开发、调整和改进实验材料，这些材料不仅包含了一致的基于探究的学习(IBL)方法、真实世界的数据和与学生相关的问题，而且还明确地解决了科学的过程。部分通过该项目开发的配备计算机的地球科学探索实验室(GELL)正在推动该项目的工作，该实验室为学生提供机会收集他们自己的数据，使用计算机工具分析、可视化、解释、综合和展示他们的结果和解释。这有助于学生在大学生涯的早期阶段培养有价值的思考和沟通技能。评估计划由形成性和终结性两部分组成，跟踪学生的学习和态度，以及参与教授实验室课程的教职员工和研究生的专业发展。该项目的成果包括广泛散发的实验室手册、积极传播项目成果的国家讲习班，以及传播对更大的科学、技术和经济共同体感兴趣的评价结果。