Establishing a Roadmap for Large-Scale Improvement of K-12 Education in the Geographical Sciences

制定大规模改进 K-12 地理科学教育的路线图

• 批准号: 1049437
• 负责人: Daniel Edelson
• 金额: $ 226万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049437&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Roadmap; Large; Scale; Improvement

Having a geographically literate population will be critical to the economic stability, physical security, and environmental sustainability of the United States in the 21st century. Yet the U.S. still lags far behind the other developed nations in education in the geographical sciences. Recognizing the risk that geographic illiteracy poses for our country, the National Geographic Society (NGS), in collaboration with the Association of American Geographers, American Geographical Society, and National Council for Geographic Education, proposes to engage in a set of research synthesis and dissemination activities that will provide road maps for the design of assessment, professional development, instructional materials, public information, and educational research for the next decade. The work will be done by a broad range of experts from K-12 institutions as well as the geographical science and educational research communitiesBuilding on a 25 year collaboration, NGS and its partners propose to engage in a community-wide effort to synthesize the literature from a broad range of fields and to use the findings to create frameworks that will guide the planning, implementation, and scale-up of efforts to improve geographic education over the next decade. The result of this effort will be a set of publicly reviewed, consensus reports that will guide the collaborative efforts of the project partners and the larger geographic education community, as well as broaden awareness of the increasingly significant and acute need for geographic literacy and education in the geographical sciences in our country. This project will create three in-depth "roadmap" reports targeted at practitioners, takeholders, and policymakers. Developed by expert committees, these three reports will be on:- Assessment frameworks for systematic monitoring and continuous improvement of geographic education programs. - Professional development for teachers and instructional materials to support large-scale educational improvement across diverse contexts. - Educational research agenda to set priorities and identify appropriate methodologies for research that will improve geographic education into the future. These three reports will be summarized in an executive summary written for a broad audience of educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens. In addition to these consensus reports, the project will also conduct research on public understanding of the nature and importance of geographic literacy, with particular attention to the key audiences of educators, policymakers, and citizens. In addition to shaping the project's reports, this research will inform the broader communications and dissemination efforts of this project and its partners.

拥有具有地理知识的人口对于 21 世纪美国的经济稳定、人身安全和环境可持续性至关重要。但美国在地理科学教育方面仍远远落后于其他发达国家。认识到地理文盲给我国带来的风险，国家地理学会（NGS）与美国地理学家协会、美国地理学会和国家地理教育委员会合作，提议开展一系列研究综合和传播活动，为未来十年的评估设计、专业发展、教学材料、公共信息和教育研究提供路线图。 这项工作将由来自 K-12 机构以及地理科学和教育研究界的广泛专家完成。在 25 年合作的基础上，NGS 及其合作伙伴提议在全社区范围内努力综合来自广泛领域的文献，并利用研究结果创建框架，以指导规划、实施和扩大在未来十年改善地理教育的努力。 这项努力的结果将是一套经过公开审查的共识报告，该报告将指导项目合作伙伴和更大的地理教育界的协作努力，并扩大人们对我国地理素养和地理科学教育日益重要和迫切需求的认识。 该项目将针对从业者、利益相关者和政策制定者创建三份深入的“路线图”报告。 这三份报告由专家委员会制定，将涉及： - 系统监测和持续改进地理教育项目的评估框架。 - 教师专业发展和教学材料，以支持不同背景下的大规模教育改进。 - 教育研究议程，确定优先事项并确定适当的研究方法，以改善未来的地理教育。 这三份报告将总结为一份为广大教育工作者、政策制定者和相关公民撰写的执行摘要。除了这些共识报告外，该项目还将就公众对地理素养的性质和重要性的理解进行研究，特别关注教育工作者、政策制定者和公民等主要受众。 除了制定项目报告外，这项研究还将为本项目及其合作伙伴进行更广泛的沟通和传播工作提供信息。