Biocomplexity: Transforming an Innovative High School Curriculum with UDI Scaffolds and Multimedia Resources

生物复杂性：利用 UDI 支架和多媒体资源转变创新高中课程

• 批准号: 1020089
• 负责人: Brian Drayton
• 金额: $ 150.53万
• 依托单位: TERC Inc
• 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: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1020089&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biocomplexity; Transforming; Innovative; Curriculum; UDI

This project transforms an already-useful and innovative curriculum to reach a wider population of students and teachers than anticipated. The curriculum to be transformed effectively builds on a base of core science and math concepts to bring important current science to high school, using a case-based approach that incorporates authentic scientific inquiry. The Biocomplexity and the Habitable Planet curriculum engages high school students in the science of coupled natural and human systems, exploring the complex fabric of relationships between humans and the environment at all spatial and temporal scales. The curriculum is designed to provide material for a year-long capstone course in ecology and environmental science, or two individual modules for semester-long electives. Pilot and field tests provide preliminary evidence that this material has produced significant student learning. External evaluation during the pilot has yielded two important findings: 1) Teachers have confronted a much more heterogeneous student population than expected at the capstone level. This offers the opportunity to expand the potential audience for the curriculum. 2) Though the previous project has provided supports for teachers and students that address the innovative pedagogy and novel content of the curriculum, this unexpectedly large heterogeneity provides an exciting opportunity to conduct design research to develop effective new curricular scaffolding and contextual supports. In collaboration with CAST, TERC has identified strategies for a transformation and extension of the materials in order to create an enhanced electronic curriculum infused by the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The project will result in the following deliverables: 1. An e-text based on two of the most requested Biocomplexity units, to provide the following UDL scaffolds: a) Contextual supports for student work with complex quantitative and visual data that include structured data sets, smart graphs, smart images, and other scaffolds to support data analysis; and b) Reading supports, including highlighting tools, embedded glossary, and careful linking of visual and textual data. 2. Multimedia resources for students on challenging core science ideas and on techniques of scientific argumentation, and teacher materials that provide both content and pedagogical support, for all four units. 3. Study and assessment materials for all four units, including a study guide, test items, and glossary. 4. A research article on the effectiveness of contextual supports for scaffolding student understanding of complex data. 5. A white paper for curriculum developers including guidelines for scaffolding student work with complex data.

该项目改变了一个已经有用和创新的课程，以达到比预期更广泛的学生和教师群体。要有效改造的课程建立在核心科学和数学概念的基础上，使用基于案例的方法，结合真实的科学探究，将重要的当前科学带到高中。生物复杂性和可居住的星球课程让高中生参与自然和人类系统耦合的科学，探索人类与环境之间在所有空间和时间尺度上的复杂关系。该课程旨在为生态学和环境科学长达一年的顶峰课程提供材料，或为学期的选修课提供两个单独的模块。试点和实地测试提供的初步证据表明，这种材料产生了显着的学生学习。在试点期间进行的外部评估得出了两个重要的结果：1）教师在顶点一级面对的学生群体比预期的要多得多。这为扩大课程的潜在受众提供了机会。2)虽然以前的项目为教师和学生提供了支持，解决创新教学法和课程的新颖内容，这种意想不到的大异质性提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，进行设计研究，以开发有效的新课程支架和上下文支持。TERC与CAST合作，确定了材料转换和扩展的战略，以创建一个增强的电子课程，该课程融入了通用学习设计（UDL）的原则。该项目将产生以下成果：1.基于两个最受欢迎的生物复杂性单元的电子文本，提供以下UDL支架：a）为学生提供复杂的定量和可视化数据的上下文支持，包括结构化数据集，智能图，智能图像和其他支架，以支持数据分析;和B）阅读支持，包括突出显示工具，嵌入式词汇表，以及视觉和文本数据的仔细链接。2.多媒体资源，为学生的挑战核心科学思想和科学论证的技术，以及教师材料，提供内容和教学支持，为所有四个单位。3.所有四个单元的学习和评估材料，包括学习指南，测试项目和词汇表。4.一篇关于情境支持对学生理解复杂数据的有效性的研究文章。5.为课程开发人员提供的白色文件，包括使用复杂数据为学生工作搭建脚手架的指导方针。