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

合作研究：海洋轨迹大学版：调查海洋变化中的海洋迁徙

• 批准号: 1431917
• 负责人: Cheryl Peach
• 金额: $ 22.03万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography
• 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: 2014-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431917&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Ocean; Tracks; College

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.

在一个日益数据密集的世界里，各国迫切需要使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，教育发展中心的科学家、教育工作者和研究人员。(EDC)斯克里普斯海洋学研究所和斯坦福大学一直在进行研究，并开发了一个名为“海洋轨迹”的独特网络界面，供高中生使用。该界面提供了方便的访问和一套学生友好的分析工具，以促进对通过全球海洋学研究项目和地球轨道卫星收集的大规模数据的研究。这个项目，海洋轨道大学版（OT-CE），将建立和扩大这一先前的工作，开发新的课程资源和积极的学习经验，为学生在本科水平。OT-CE教育材料将帮助不同本科院校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Ocean Tracks界面来调查与太平洋顶级海洋捕食者的迁移和栖息地相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中的相对有效性。该研究将建立知识基础，如何支持学生学习和技能发展与大数据集的工作。海洋轨迹大学版（OT-CE）项目将开发和研究一种学习模式，让本科生从事科学实践使用真实的数据。这些数据是使用Ocean Tracks界面访问的，Ocean Tracks界面是使用2012-2014年NSF DR K-12探索性赠款开发的工具。在项目的第一年，OT-CE团队将收集有关全国社区学院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的基线数据，以及如何设计Ocean Tracks Web界面和课程以满足不同的本科教学和学习需求。在第二年，该团队将共同开发和测试课程材料和实验室模块与两名教师和他们的本科生在帕洛玛学院，两年制社区学院，和斯克里普斯海洋学研究所，四年制研究型大学，都在加州。研究将侧重于收集形成性数据，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，该团队将在帕洛玛学院对大约250名学生进行修订后的在线OT-CE课程的随机实验。外部总结性评估将从本科科学教师样本中收集反馈，以了解在其大学课程中实施在线或面对面版本的OT-CE的潜在可行性。 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探究。通过研究OT-CE在在线和面对面学习形式以及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，这些课程在不同的教育交付模式和不同的本科人群中有效地促进数据科学技能。