RCN-UBE Incubator: Conceptual Assessments in Biology: Tools for Learning

RCN-UBE 孵化器：生物学概念评估：学习工具

• 批准号: 0957363
• 负责人: Kathleen Fisher
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 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: 2010-02-15 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0957363&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Incubator; Conceptual; Assessments

This project addresses two problems, first identified in the 1980s, that persist today. First, students have many misconceptions that are at odds with scientific ideas and that are tenacious, persistent, and resistant to change. Second, with the advent of large lecture classes and multiple-choice testing, many college students can earn good grades simply by superficial memorization that results in no long-term retention or modification of underlying misconceptions. Conceptual assessments in biology (CABs) are designed to examine the ways students are reasoning and applying scientific principles to solve scientific problems. This project will support planning and initial development of a network focused on the use of conceptual assessments to help biology faculty transform instruction to promote students' meaningful understanding and problem-solving abilities. Goals of the network will be to strengthen the community of CAB developers and create a central repository on the web to serve the needs of both CAB developers and faculty who use CABs. Broader impacts of the network will include broad dissemination of CAB materials and training of faculty in the development and use of CABs. This project is supported jointly by the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education.

该项目解决了20世纪80年代首次发现的两个问题，这些问题一直存在到今天。首先，学生有许多与科学思想相抵触的误解，这些误解是顽强的、执着的和抵制改变的。其次，随着大班授课和多项选择测试的出现，许多大学生只需表面上的记忆就可以获得好成绩，而不会长期保留或修正潜在的错误概念。生物学中的概念评估(CABS)旨在检查学生推理和应用科学原理解决科学问题的方式。这个项目将支持一个以概念评估为重点的网络的规划和初步发展，以帮助生物学教师转变教学方式，促进学生有意义的理解和解决问题的能力。该网络的目标将是加强出租车开发商的社区，并在网络上创建一个中央存储库，以满足出租车开发商和使用出租车的教职员工的需求。该网络的更广泛影响将包括广泛传播驾驶室材料和培训教师开发和使用驾驶室。该项目由生物科学局和本科生教育局共同支持。