Collaborative Research: Supporting Secondary Students in Building External Models

康科德联盟和密歇根州立大学将合作：(1)开发和测试一个建模工具和配套的教学材料，(2)探索如何支持学生建立和使用模型来解释和预测一系列学科的现象，(3)记录学生在6-12年级建立和使用模型时对学科核心思想的理解的复杂性。通过迭代地设计、开发和测试促进动态模型构建的建模工具和教学材料，该项目将产生使用基于模型的方法的示范性初中和高中材料，并理解该方法在支持学生发展解释框架和建模能力方面的潜力。该项目的一个关键目标是通过建模来增加学生对科学的学习，并研究学生将建模作为一种科学实践的参与。该项目为国家提供初中和高中资源，支持学生开发和使用模型来解释和预测现象，这是一项重要的科学和工程实践。由于研究和开发工作将在学生通常不会在科学方面取得成功的学校进行，因此这些产品还将有助于培养能够继续进一步学习STEM的公民群体，并能够明智地参与公共决策。该项目的目标是：(1)开发和测试一个建模工具和随附的教学材料，(2)探索如何支持学生建立、使用和修改模型来解释和预测一系列学科的现象，以及(3)记录学生在6-12年级建立和使用模型时对学科核心思想的理解的复杂性。使用基于设计的研究方法，研究和开发工作将包括设计、开发、测试和改进系统建模工具和教学材料的多个周期，以帮助学生实现与构建与下一代科学标准一致的动态模型相关的重要学习目标。学习研究将研究使用外部模型对学生构建稳健的解释性概念理解的影响。此外，它将开发一套专业发展资源和教师脚手架，以帮助没有直接参与项目的教师群体利用这些材料和策略，最大限度地发挥课程材料的影响。

The Concord Consortium and Michigan State University will collaborate to: (1) develop and test a modeling tool and accompanying instructional materials, (2) explore how to support students in building and using models to explain and predict phenomena across a range of disciplines, and (3) document the sophistication of understanding of disciplinary core ideas that students develop when building and using models in grades 6-12. By iteratively designing, developing and testing a modeling tool and instructional materials that facilitate the building of dynamic models, the project will result in exemplary middle and high school materials that use a model-based approach as well as an understanding of the potential of this approach in supporting student development of explanatory frameworks and modeling capabilities. A key goal of the project is to increase students' learning of science through modeling and to study student engagement with modeling as a scientific practice. The project provides the nation with middle and high school resources that support students in developing and using models to explain and predict phenomena, a central scientific and engineering practice. Because the research and development work will be carried out in schools in which students typically do not succeed in science, the products will also help produce a population of citizens capable of continuing further STEM learning and who can participate knowledgeably in public decision making. The goals of the project are to (1) develop and test a modeling tool and accompanying instructional materials, (2) explore how to support students in building, using, and revising models to explain and predict phenomena across a range of disciplines, and (3) document the sophistication of understanding of disciplinary core ideas that students develop when building and using models in grades 6-12. Using a design-based research methodology, the research and development efforts will involve multiple cycles of designing, developing, testing, and refining the systems modeling tool and the instructional materials to help students meet important learning goals related to constructing dynamic models that align with the Next Generation Science Standards. The learning research will study the effect of working with external models on student construction of robust explanatory conceptual understanding. Additionally, it will develop a set of professional development resources and teacher scaffolds to help the expanding community of teachers not directly involved in the project take advantage of the materials and strategies for maximizing the impact of the curricular materials.