Pilot Study: Creating a Special Collection of NSF-Funded Learning Resources to Support Core Ideas in High School Biology

该项目将开发、实施和研究一种特殊的数字集合，以补充高中生物核心思想的教学。该文集将侧重于支撑美国目前使用的大多数课程的概念。该资料还将作为一个综合资料来源的范本，专门向教师和学生的目标受众传播有关国家科学基金会支持的学习资源的信息。该项目的重点是高中生物，因为：1)当代的教学研究基础呼吁所有学生深入参与真实的科学实践。在许多学校，教师正在积极寻找在线资源来满足这一需求。2)生物学招生近乎普及化。因此，教师们正在寻找在线补充资源，以区分他们的教学，以满足学生多样化的学习需求。3)通过现有的合作伙伴关系，可以将这一特殊收藏整合到数字高中生物课程中，并研究其对教师和学生的影响。各州和学区越来越多地要求教师在机构范围内使用开放教育资源，原因是希望控制成本，需要更个性化的学习体验，以及需要调整课程以满足新的数学和科学标准的要求。一个由NSF支持的全面的在线教育材料来源将通过向教师、学习者、家长和公众开放访问高质量的、基于研究的STEM材料来满足这一国家需求。直接的更广泛的影响将是丹佛公立学校的教师和800名学生获得300种高质量的生物资源，其中许多人来自非主导背景。它将为公众获取其他STEM领域的NSF资助的教育材料提供一个可扩展的模式，并可作为未来特别收藏发展的基础。更长期的影响将是教育工作者、学习者和普通公众更容易获得高质量的教育收藏。工作将沿着两条轨道进行：在发展轨道上，将利用现有的基础设施工具建立资源收藏，以进行收藏的开发、管理和维护。在研究轨道上，将进行研究，以解决扩大收藏和改善对多个受众的使用的问题。发展轨迹将：(1)制定政策和资源选择标准；(2)确定国家科学基金会支持的材料，并评估其收录的适当性；(3)填充收藏并描述资源；(4)配置和运行现有的技术基础设施，用于收藏的开发和传播；以及(5)将收藏分发给多个开放教育储存库，并直接向教师和学生传播。研究跟踪将产生设计指南和技术诀窍，以便将这一模型集合扩展到能够服务于多个受众和社区的更大的在线资源。项目活动将：(1)确定有助于为更广泛的受众提供知识库价值的因素，包括在利用数字收藏工具支持数据密集型研究时需要考虑的因素；(2)产生关于STEM教师和学生用户行为的新知识，并审查收藏发展政策、资源选择标准、描述和使用之间的关系。

This project will develop, implement, and research a special digital collection to supplement the teaching of core ideas in high school biology. The collection will focus on concepts that underpin the majority of curricula currently in use in the United States. The collection will also serve as a model for a comprehensive source dedicated to disseminating information about NSF-supported learning resources for targeted audiences of teachers and learners. The project focus is on high school biology because: 1) The contemporary research base on teaching and learning calls for all students to be deeply engaged in authentic science practices. In many schools teachers are actively seeking online resources to meet this need. 2) Biology has near universal enrollment by students. Consequently, teachers are seeking online supplemental resources to differentiate their instruction to meet the diverse learning needs of students. 3) Through existing partnerships, this special collection can be integrated into a digital high school biology curriculum and its impact on teachers and learners can be studied. States and school districts increasingly are asking teachers to use open education resources on an institutional scale, driven by the desire to control costs, the need for more personalized learning experiences, and the need to adapt curricula to meet the demands of new math and science standards. A comprehensive online source of NSF-supported educational materials will address this national need by providing teachers, learners, parents, and the public with open access to high-quality, research-based STEM materials. The immediate broader impact will be access to 300 high-quality biology resources by Denver Public School teachers and 800 students, many of whom are from non-dominant backgrounds. It will provide a scalable model for public access to NSF-funded educational materials in other STEM domains and can serve as a foundation for future development of special collections. Longer term impacts will be more accessible, high-quality educational collections available to educators, learners, and the general public. Work will proceed along two tracks: in the development track, the collection of resources will be built using existing infrastructure tools for collection development, curation, and maintenance. In the research track, studies will be conducted to address scaling the collection and improving use for multiple audiences. The development track will: (1) Develop policies and resource selection criteria; (2) Identify NSF-supported materials and evaluate their appropriateness for inclusion; (3) Populate the collection and describe resources; (4) Configure and operate existing technical infrastructure for collection development and dissemination; and (5) Disseminate the collection to multiple open education repositories and directly to teachers and students. The research track will generate design guidelines and know-how for scaling this model collection to larger online sources capable of serving multiple audiences and communities. Project activities will: (1) Identify factors that contribute to repository value for broader audiences, including factors to be considered when instrumenting digital collections to support data-intensive research; and (2) Generate new knowledge on user behavior of STEM teachers and students, and examine the relationship between collection development policies, resource selection criteria, descriptions, and usage.