Building High School Students' Understanding of Evolution--Both Common Ancestry and Natural Selection--Through Mathematical Arguments, Evidence-Based Explanations, and an Understan

通过数学论证、基于证据的解释和理解，培养高中生对进化论的理解——共同祖先和自然选择

• 批准号: 1222869
• 负责人: Louisa Stark
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1222869&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Students; Understanding; Evolution; Both

The University of Utah will develop a plan for a model curriculum and associated assessments project that integrates science practices, crosscutting concepts, and core disciplinary ideas through the integration of mathematics and science and the application of appropriate educational technologies. The unit plan and prototype lessons will model ways in which quantitative literacy and the Common Core Standards of Mathematics can be addressed in the biology curriculum. This two-year exploratory research project will take place in the general biology classrooms of teachers in Utah, Maryland and Washington, DC. The project will develop the following: a detailed plan for a new, 5-week curriculum replacement unit for high school biology that helps students build a coherent understanding of evolution; a valid and reliable set of test items to assess students' understanding of the unit's learning goals using Project 2061 and to refine these measures using an iterative process of development, testing, expert review and revision; prototypes of five evolution lessons from the planned unit. In addition a the researchers will conduct a small-scale pilot test of the prototype lessons with diverse student populations. The unit plan and prototype lessons will be developed using a learning-goals-driven design model that includes iterative rounds of development, analysis for content coherence using American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Project 2061's valid and reliable analysis procedure, reviews by scientists and teachers, and revision.

犹他大学将制定一项示范课程和相关评估项目的计划，通过将数学和科学相结合并应用适当的教育技术，将科学实践、交叉概念和核心学科思想结合起来。单元计划和原型课程将模拟在生物课程中解决量化素养和数学共同核心标准的方法。这项为期两年的探索性研究项目将在犹他州、马里兰州和华盛顿特区的普通生物教师课堂上进行。该项目将制定以下内容：一个新的、为期5周的高中生物学课程替代单元的详细计划，帮助学生建立对进化论的连贯理解；一套有效和可靠的测试题，以评估学生对该单元学习目标的理解，并使用开发、测试、专家审查和修改的迭代过程来改进这些措施；来自计划单元的五节进化论课程的原型。此外，研究人员将对不同学生群体的原型课程进行小规模的试点测试。单元计划和原型课程将使用学习目标驱动的设计模式来制定，其中包括迭代几轮开发，使用美国科学促进会2061年S项目有效和可靠的分析程序对内容一致性进行分析，科学家和教师进行审查，以及修改。