Collaborative Research: Ocean Tracks College Edition: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean

在一个数据日益密集的世界，迫切需要让学生具备现代科学职业和更广泛的劳动力所需的科学推理能力和数据查询技能。为了满足这一需求，教育发展中心(EDC)、斯克里普斯海洋研究所和斯坦福大学的科学家、教育工作者和研究人员一直在进行研究，开发了一种独特的Web界面，称为Ocean Track，供高中生使用。这个界面提供了方便的访问和一套学生友好的分析工具，以便利研究通过全球海洋研究项目和地球轨道卫星收集的大规模数据。这个项目，海洋航迹学院版(OT-CE)，将通过为本科生开发新的课程资源和积极的学习体验，在先前工作的基础上进行扩展。OT-CE教育材料将帮助不同本科机构的学生获得关键的科学探究和数据分析技能，因为他们使用海洋跟踪界面来调查与太平洋顶级海洋捕食者的迁徙和栖息地有关的当前科学兴趣问题。一个广泛的研究部分将调查OT-CE对学生学习的影响，以及OT-CE在在线和面对面形式下的相对有效性。这项研究将建立关于如何支持学生学习和使用大数据集技能发展的知识库。海洋航迹学院版(OT-CE)项目将开发和研究一种学习模式，允许本科生使用真实的数据进行科学实践。这些数据是通过海洋航迹界面访问的，这是一个使用2012-2014年NSF DR K-12探索拨款开发的工具。在项目的第一年，OT-CE团队将收集基线数据，内容包括全国各地社区大学和四年制本科院校的海洋学和海洋生物学教师如何在本科教学中使用真实的大型数据库，以及如何设计海洋轨道网络界面和课程以满足不同的本科教学需求。在第二年，该团队将与加州两年制社区学院帕洛玛学院和四年制研究型大学斯克里普斯海洋研究所的两名教职员工和本科生共同开发和测试课程材料和实验室模块。研究将集中于收集形成数据，因为教师和学生参与在线和面对面版本的OT-CE材料。在最后一年，该团队将对帕洛玛学院约250名学生进行修订后的OT-CE在线课程的随机实验。外部总结性评估将从本科理科教师样本中收集关于在他们的大学课程中实施在线或面对面版本的OT-CE的潜在可行性的反馈。OT-CE项目将产生新的知识，这些知识可以在多个领域推广，涉及如何让学生参与大规模数据集的科学研究。通过研究OT-CE在在线和面对面学习模式以及在两年制和四年制本科院校中的影响，该项目还将对本科课程的设计产生重要的见解，以便在不同的教育提供方式和不同的本科人群中有效地促进数据科学技能。

In a world that is increasingly data-intensive, there is an urgent national need to equip students with the scientific reasoning capacities and data inquiry skills that are required in modern scientific occupations and the broader workforce. To address this need, scientists, educators, and researchers at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Stanford University have been conducting research that has led to the development of a unique Web interface called Ocean Tracks for use by high school students. This interface provides easy access and a set of student-friendly analysis tools to facilitate the study of large-scale data collected through global oceanographic research projects and earth-orbiting satellites. This project, The Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE), will build and expand on this prior work by developing new curriculum resources and active learning experiences for students at the undergraduate level. OT-CE educational materials will help students at diverse undergraduate institutions acquire critical scientific inquiry and data analysis skills as they use the Ocean Tracks interface to investigate questions of current scientific interest related to the migrations and habitats of top marine predators in the Pacific Ocean. An extensive research component will investigate the impact of OT-CE on student learning and the relative effectiveness of OT-CE in online and face-to-face formats. This research will build the knowledge base on how to support student learning and skills development in working with large data sets.The Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE) project will develop and research a learning model that allows undergraduate students to engage in scientific practices using authentic data. The data are accessed using the Ocean Tracks interface, a tool developed using an NSF DR K-12 exploratory grant in 2012-2014. During the first year of the project, the OT-CE team will gather baseline data on how oceanography and marine biology faculty at community colleges and four-year undergraduate institutions across the country are using authentic, large-scale databases in their undergraduate instruction, and how the Ocean Tracks Web interface and curriculum could be designed to meet diverse undergraduate teaching and learning needs. During the second year, the team will co-develop and test curriculum materials and lab modules with two faculty members and their undergraduate students at Palomar College, a two-year community college, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a four-year research university, both in California. Research will focus on collecting formative data as faculty and students engage with online and face-to-face versions of OT-CE materials. During the final year, the team will conduct a randomized experiment of the revised online OT-CE curriculum with approximately 250 students at Palomar College. An external summative evaluation will collect feedback from a sample of undergraduate science faculty on the potential feasibility of implementing online or face-to-face versions of OT-CE in their college courses. The OT-CE project will produce new knowledge that can be generalized across multiple fields about how to engage students in scientific inquiry with large-scale datasets. By studying the impacts of OT-CE in both online and face-to-face learning formats as well as at two-year and four-year undergraduate institutions, the project will also yield important insights into the design of undergraduate curricula that are effective in promoting data science skills in varied educational delivery modes and among diverse undergraduate populations.