EAGER: Relating Research to Practice in Informal Learning Environments: An Exploratory Effort to Establish Warranted Approaches, Audiences and Uses

EAGER：将研究与非正式学习环境中的实践联系起来：建立有效方法、受众和用途的探索性努力

• 批准号: 1049817
• 负责人: Bronwyn Bevan
• 金额: $ 15.47万
• 依托单位: Exploratorium
• 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: 2010-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049817&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Relating; Research; Practice; Informal

This EAGER grant supports initial exploratory work on the utility and feasibility of providing informal science education (ISE) educators with access to current and relevant peer-reviewed research findings. The investigators of the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) in England and the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center at the University of Washington will select about 200 peer-reviewed research studies from published journals and translate them into practitioner-friendly language. The translations will explicitly note the relevance of the findings to informal science education contexts. The translated abstracts will be posted on a website that will be field tested with some 200 ISE practitioners to determine whether the translations and presentations of the research are accessible and usable. The audience during this exploratory phase will be educators who design and lead science education programs for children and youth in informal settings such as museums, botanical gardens, youth development organizations, after-school programs, and different media-based contexts, such as web, television, and radio. The research summaries will provide these educators, who do not have access to published research journals, with information about learning progressions, curriculum design and sequencing, use of new media, building on the cultural resources of children, the nature of scientific argumentation, and education policy. The journals covered will include those oriented primarily towards researchers (Science Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Journal of the Learning Sciences, Studies in Science Education, International Journal of Science Education) as well as practitioners (Curator, Science Communication, Journal for Education in Museums, and Afterschool Matters). The abstracts will be field tested with practitioners and will be evaluated by an experienced advisory panel. The results of the work will be published in journals and posted on a website.

这项 EAGER 赠款支持初步探索性工作，旨在为非正式科学教育 (ISE) 教育工作者提供当前和相关同行评审研究成果的实用性和可行性。英国非正式学习和学校中心 (CILS) 以及华盛顿大学非正式和正式环境学习 (LIFE) 中心的研究人员将从已发表的期刊中选择约 200 项经过同行评审的研究报告，并将其翻译成对实践者友好的语言。翻译将明确指出研究结果与非正式科学教育背景的相关性。翻译后的摘要将发布在一个网站上，该网站将由约 200 名 ISE 从业者进行现场测试，以确定研究的翻译和演示是否易于访问和使用。 这一探索阶段的受众将是在博物馆、植物园、青少年发展组织、课外项目和不同媒体环境（如网络、电视和广播）等非正式环境中为儿童和青少年设计和领导科学教育项目的教育工作者。研究摘要将为这些无法阅读已发表的研究期刊的教育工作者提供有关学习进度、课程设计和排序、新媒体的使用、儿童文化资源、科学论证的性质和教育政策的信息。涵盖的期刊将包括主要面向研究人员的期刊（《科学教育》、《科学教学研究期刊》、《学习科学期刊》、《科学教育研究》、《国际科学教育期刊》）以及实践者（《策展人》、《科学传播》、《博物馆教育期刊》和《课后事务》）。摘要将由从业者进行现场测试，并由经验丰富的顾问小组进行评估。工作结果将发表在期刊上并发布在网站上。