Building Capacity for Learning Progressions Research in Geography

地理学习进展研究能力建设

• 批准号: 1347859
• 负责人: Michael Solem
• 金额: $ 29.25万
• 依托单位: Association of American Geographers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1347859&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Learning; Progressions; Research

This project is designed to build capacity for conducting research on learning progressions in geography. Learning progressions offer a means for educators to determine how students learn geographic facts, concepts, and skills, and whether they are on track toward attainment of a particular curriculum standard or set of standards. The available research base in geography education is primarily focused on students' understanding (or learning) of individual ideas or skills, but not on the relationships between different areas of content or types of skills learned progressively across grade levels.Through this project, geographers and education researchers will receive training to develop and validate learning progressions and assessments based on Standard 1 of Geography for Life: National Geography Standards (2nd Edition): How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information. The capacity building will involve four activities: 1) a planning meeting with geographers and learning progressions experts, 2) an inventory and prospect study for the research, 3) a research training workshop with graduate students, early career scholars and faculty mentors, and 4) preparations for the coordination and implementation of the research plans produced by the workshop.This project is the first to develop a methodology for designing learning progressions referenced to national geography standards. The goal is to stimulate interest, and provide training and mentoring support for graduate students and early career scholars interested in carrying out this type of research. The long-term vision is to educate a cadre of future researchers with strong research and analysis skills who can participate in the creation and testing of learning progressions for all 18 national geography standards. The outcomes of this project will include co-authored research manuscripts and an online American Association of Geographers (AAG ) clearinghouse of research results.

该项目旨在建设进行地理学习进展研究的能力。学习进度为教育工作者提供了一种手段，以确定学生如何学习地理事实，概念和技能，以及他们是否在实现特定课程标准或一套标准的轨道上。地理教育中现有的研究基础主要集中在学生的理解上通过这个项目，地理学家和教育研究人员将接受培训，根据《生活地理》标准1制定和验证学习进度和评估：国家地理标准（第二版）：如何使用地图和其他地理表示、地理空间技术和空间思维来理解和传达信息。能力建设将涉及四项活动：1）与地理学家和学习进展专家的规划会议，2）研究的库存和前景研究，3）与研究生，早期职业学者和教师导师的研究培训研讨会，和4）为协调和执行讲习班提出的研究计划做准备。该项目是第一个为以下方面制定方法的项目：参照国家地理标准设计学习进度。其目标是激发兴趣，并为有兴趣进行这类研究的研究生和早期职业学者提供培训和指导支持。长期愿景是培养一批具有强大研究和分析能力的未来研究人员，他们可以参与所有18个国家地理标准的学习进展的创建和测试。该项目的成果将包括共同撰写的研究手稿和美国地理学家协会（AAG）研究成果的在线交流中心。