Science in the Classroom

课堂上的科学

• 批准号: 1224661
• 负责人: Marcia McNutt
• 金额: $ 47.87万
• 依托单位: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1224661&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Classroom

Science education reforms are focusing on active learning strategies that engage students in the process of science. Science (the journal) is offering a unique approach to transforming the undergraduate STEM learning environment, one that introduces undergraduates to important elements of science: reading primary research articles, communicating science, and engaging in a peer review system. Through reading and deconstructing carefully selected scientific papers, students gain an understanding of how scientists design their experiments and present their results, allowing students to actively experience the logic of getting from a set of data to a new conclusion. In addition, in their publications scientists discuss how they have incorporated and confirmed the results of other scientists, as well as where they disagree with prior conclusions. They also mention what steps might be taken next, showing students that there are still many unanswered questions. The PIs are working with a team of expert scientists and educational researchers to develop these resources, with the goal of providing students a deep understanding of how scientists design experiments, gather and analyze data, and present their conclusions. Science is thereby translating scientific papers into tools for learning, essentially helping students assume the persona of the scientist. The goal is to enable students to truly understand the scientific enterprise: science as a powerful "way of knowing" about the world. The PI team is accomplishing this goal through the use of online annotations, detailed explanations of scientific figures and methods, and additional activities allowing students to work with actual scientific data.

科学教育改革的重点是积极的学习策略，让学生参与到科学过程中来。《科学》杂志提供了一种改变本科生STEM学习环境的独特方法，这种方法向本科生介绍了科学的重要元素：阅读初级研究文章，交流科学，并参与同行评议系统。通过阅读和解构精心挑选的科学论文，学生了解科学家如何设计他们的实验并展示他们的结果，让学生积极体验从一组数据中得出新结论的逻辑。此外，科学家在他们的出版物中讨论了他们如何纳入和确认其他科学家的结果，以及他们在哪里不同意先前的结论。他们还提到了下一步可能采取的步骤，向学生表明仍有许多悬而未决的问题。PI正在与一组专家科学家和教育研究人员合作开发这些资源，目的是让学生深入了解科学家如何设计实验、收集和分析数据以及展示他们的结论。因此，科学正在将科学论文转化为学习工具，本质上是帮助学生扮演科学家的角色。目标是让学生真正理解科学事业：科学是了解世界的一种强大的“方式”。PI团队正在通过使用在线注释、对科学数字和方法的详细解释以及允许学生使用实际科学数据的额外活动来实现这一目标。