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，以及（3）记录学生在6-12年级建立和使用模型时发展的学科核心思想的复杂性。通过反复设计，开发和测试建模工具和教学材料，促进动态模型的建设，该项目将导致示范性的初中和高中的材料，使用基于模型的方法，以及这种方法的潜力的理解，在支持学生发展的解释性框架和建模能力。该项目的一个主要目标是通过建模增加学生对科学的学习，并研究学生参与建模作为一种科学实践。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在科学方面不成功的学校进行，因此这些产品还将有助于培养能够继续进一步STEM学习并能够明智地参与公共决策的公民。该项目的目标是（1）开发和测试建模工具和配套的教学材料，（2）探索如何支持学生建立，使用和修改模型来解释和预测跨学科的现象，以及（3）记录学生在6-12年级建立和使用模型时开发的学科核心思想的复杂性。使用基于设计的研究方法，研究和开发工作将涉及设计，开发，测试和完善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符合下一代科学标准的动态模型相关的重要学习目标。学习研究将研究与外部模型合作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支架，以帮助扩大社区的教师不直接参与该项目利用的材料和战略，最大限度地提高课程材料的影响。

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.