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

这项EAGER赠款支持初步探索性工作，为非正式科学教育（伊势）教育工作者提供获得当前和相关同行评审研究成果的机会。英国非正式学习和学校中心（CILS）和华盛顿大学非正式和正式环境学习中心（LIFE）的研究人员将从已出版的期刊中选择约200份同行评议的研究报告，并将其翻译成方便翻译的语言。译文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，该网站将与大约200名伊势从业者进行实地测试，以确定研究的翻译和演示是否可访问和可用。 在这个探索阶段的观众将是教育工作者谁设计和领导科学教育计划的儿童和青少年在非正式的设置，如博物馆，植物园，青年发展组织，课后计划，和不同的媒体为基础的环境，如网络，电视和广播。研究摘要将为这些无法获得已出版的研究期刊的教育工作者提供有关学习进展、课程设计和排序、新媒体的使用、儿童文化资源的建设、科学论证的性质和教育政策的信息。所涵盖的期刊将包括主要面向研究人员的期刊（《科学教育》、《科学教学研究杂志》、《学习科学杂志》、《科学教育研究》、《国际科学教育杂志》）以及从业者（《策展人》、《科学传播》、《博物馆教育杂志》和《课后事务》）。这些摘要将由从业人员进行实地测试，并由一个经验丰富的咨询小组进行评估。工作结果将在期刊上发表，并在网站上公布。

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.