EAGER: The Creation and Classroom Application of a Web Portal for Social Science Methods Education

EAGER：社会科学方法教育门户网站的创建和课堂应用

• 批准号: 0968723
• 负责人: Shane Nordyke
• 金额: $ 20.79万
• 依托单位: University of South Dakota Main Campus
• 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: 2010-06-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0968723&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Creation; Classroom; Application; Web

Little educational material is freely available to serve the needs of basic research methods courses and those available in genres such as econometrics may require substantial mathematical prerequisites. The creation of accessible problem sets and and lecture notes is time intensive, but methods courses requiring such preparation are becoming more widespread across all types of institutions. OPOSSEM, the Online Portal of Social Science Education and Methodology, solves these problems by providing various resources for teaching social science research methods for edcuators in secondary, undergraduate, and postgraduate settings. The web portal is hosted by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which provides for its long term longevity.This project, which develops this portal, has substantial intellectual merit. It has the potential to transform methodological instruction in the social sciences by adopting cutting edge and broadly available technologies and methodologies to promote the formation of educational networks and communities among secondary, undergraduate, and graduate instructors. This project also has substantial broader impacts. First, project materials will be used as part of a pilot project by Native American students at the Ihanktowan Community College on the Yankton Sioux Tribe Reservation. These students will be provided with resources through this project that may encourage them to consider the social sciences as a major or graduate pursuit. Second, the portal will provide resources that will strengthen undergraduate training in the social sciences. This will result in the pool of potential graduate students in these fields to be better prepared to undertake graduate study. Third and finally, the project reaches out to secondary school teachers in both the social sciences and the mathematical sciences. Many mathematically oriented high school students lean to the natural sciences because they see applications to those sciences in their math and science textbooks. Some of these students may be encouraged to consider the social sciences if they are exposed to similar examples in those sciences. The portal will make this more likely.

几乎没有免费提供的教育材料来满足基本研究方法课程的需要，而那些以计量经济学等流派提供的材料可能需要大量的数学先决条件。制作容易理解的习题集和课堂讲稿需要大量时间，但需要这种准备的方法课程在所有类型的机构中正变得越来越普遍。OPOSSEM是社会科学教育和方法论的在线门户网站，通过为中学、本科生和研究生的教育工作者提供各种资源来教授社会科学研究方法，从而解决了这些问题。这个门户网站是由大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)主办的，这是一个长期存在的项目。这个开发这个门户网站的项目具有重大的智力价值。它有可能通过采用尖端和广泛可用的技术和方法来改变社会科学的方法论教学，促进在中学、本科生和研究生教师中形成教育网络和社区。该项目还具有重大的更广泛的影响。首先，项目材料将作为扬克顿苏族部落保留地伊汉克托万社区学院的美洲原住民学生试点项目的一部分。这些学生将通过这个项目获得资源，这可能会鼓励他们考虑将社会科学作为专业或研究生方向。第二，该门户将提供资源，加强社会科学本科生的培训。这将使这些领域的潜在研究生更好地为进行研究生学习做好准备。第三，也是最后一点，该项目涉及社会科学和数学科学的中学教师。许多以数学为导向的高中生倾向于自然科学，因为他们在数学和科学教科书中看到了这些科学的应用。如果这些学生接触到社会科学中的类似例子，他们中的一些人可能会被鼓励考虑社会科学。门户网站将使这一点更有可能实现。