Promoting Foundational Scientific Literacy Skills in Introductory Psychology

要求改善科学教育的呼声日益高涨，突显出在大学一年级的理科课程中纳入更强的科学思维技能培训的重要性和重要性。这个项目通过开发、评估和传播一套在各种大学环境中被证明有效的科学思维教材来满足这一需求。这些材料将使用心理学导论的核心主题，结合现实世界的问题和争议来训练学生的科学思维能力。该项目建立在人类学习认知心理学研究的基础上，并建立了科学教育的最佳实践。该项目的总体目标是开发、评估和传播一套灵活的、以研究为基础的教学模块，以改进心理学入门课程中科学素养和定量推理技能的培训。该项目将开发一套科学思维教学模块，以心理学入门中涵盖的主要主题为关键。该项目的一个独特元素是其有意合作的框架，其中包括来自俄勒冈州四个学术地点的教师网络，包括两个社区学院(CCS)、一个大型的四年制研究1机构(R1)和一个有选择的文科本科学院(SLAC)。这一机构间网络将在所有资源的开发和形成性评估方面进行合作，包括确定适应不同课程格式和学生需求的单元。综合评估计划将在更广泛地传播给心理学教学界之前，对所有三种机构(CC/R1/SLAC)的教学单元的有效性进行总结性评估。

A rising tide of calls for improved science education underscores the importance and significance of incorporating stronger training of scientific thinking skills into first-year college science courses. This project addresses that need by developing, evaluating, and disseminating a set of scientific thinking teaching materials with proven efficacy in a variety of college settings. The materials will use core topics in Introductory Psychology in combination with real world issues and controversies to train students' scientific thinking skills. The project builds on cognitive psychology research on human learning and established best-practices for science education.The overarching goals of the project are to develop, evaluate, and disseminate a set of flexible, research-based teaching modules to improve the training of scientific literacy and quantitative reasoning skills in Introductory Psychology. The project will develop a set of scientific thinking instructional modules, keyed to the major topics covered in Introductory Psychology. A unique element of the project is its intentionally collaborative framework, which involves a network of faculty from four academic sites in Oregon including two community colleges (CCs), a large four-year Research 1 institution (R1), and a selective, liberal arts undergraduate college (SLAC). This inter-institutional network will collaborate on the development and formative assessment of all resources, including identifying adaptations of modules for different course formats and student needs. A comprehensive assessment plan will provide a summative assessment of the effectiveness of the teaching modules at all three institution types (CC/R1/SLAC) prior to broader dissemination to the psychology teaching community.