Making Decisions about Socioscientific Issues in Multidisciplinary Post-secondary Learning Environments
在多学科专上学习环境中做出有关社会科学问题的决策
基本信息
- 批准号:1711683
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 30万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:美国
- 项目类别:Standard Grant
- 财政年份:2017
- 资助国家:美国
- 起止时间:2017-09-01 至 2021-08-31
- 项目状态:已结题
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- 关键词:
项目摘要
Undergraduate students must be prepared to examine complex scientific issues and make socially responsible decisions. As citizens, students need to be informed and empowered to make choices that have local and global impacts. The traditional approach to science education is to focus on content knowledge and disciplinary practices. However, as many researchers have pointed out, the knowledge and methods of science alone are insufficient to prepare students to make well-reasoned decisions - they must also learn decision-making skills. In addition, more than ever, employers are calling for recent college graduates who have not only knowledge, but the ability to apply their knowledge to complex issues and problem solving. The project will be conducted within the context of a large-enrollment, required introductory course, SCIL (Science Literacy) 101, for all majors in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. In the course, students will learn about complex food, water, energy, and health issues and practice decision-making using a tool based on normative models of decision-making. Because the course is required it is anticipated that it will impact up to 1800 STEM students over the course of three years. The project will advance the theoretical and practical understanding of how to teach decision-making skills in science courses and impact the future STEM workforce as well as empower citizens to make high-quality decisions about complex personal, professional, local, and global issues. The overall goal of this foundational, design-based research project is to refine a model undergraduate course to support students' science literacy through decision-making practice, and to evaluate the impact of the course on students' decision-making and reasoning about socioscientific issues, which involve facets of both science and society. The barriers for students will be articulated by examining how they make high quality decisions, for example: how well do they understand and apply scientific information to decision-making; and how well do they evaluate tradeoffs among options for solving the problem? Additionally, the project team will investigate if practices learned in a structured classroom context transfer to an unstructured setting when students make a decision about a new socioscientific issue. The products of this research include both new theory and new practice, including: a transportable evidence-based model course and its associated materials for teaching decision-making about socioscientific issues, including assessment rubrics; and a new theoretical framework based in the decision-sciences and behavior psychology that describes students' challenges in the decision-making process.
本科生必须准备好研究复杂的科学问题,并做出对社会负责的决定。作为公民,学生需要被告知并被赋予权力,以做出对当地和全球都有影响的选择。科学教育的传统方法是注重内容、知识和纪律实践。然而,正如许多研究人员指出的那样,仅有科学知识和方法不足以让学生准备好做出合理的决定--他们还必须学习决策技能。此外,用人单位比以往任何时候都更要求应届大学毕业生不仅拥有知识,而且有能力将自己的知识应用于复杂的问题和解决问题。该项目将在内布拉斯加州大学林肯农业科学和自然资源学院所有专业的大量招生的必修入门课程--科学素养101的背景下进行。在这门课程中,学生将学习复杂的食物、水、能源和健康问题,并使用基于标准决策模型的工具练习决策。由于该课程是必修课,预计它将在三年的课程中影响多达1800名STEM学生。该项目将促进对如何在科学课程中教授决策技能和影响未来STEM劳动力的理论和实践理解,并使公民能够就复杂的个人、专业、地方和全球问题做出高质量的决策。这个以设计为基础的基础研究项目的总体目标是提炼一门模范本科课程,通过决策实践支持学生的科学素养,并评估该课程对学生对涉及科学和社会两个方面的社会科学问题的决策和推理的影响。学生面临的障碍将通过研究他们如何做出高质量的决策来阐明,例如:他们在多大程度上理解和应用科学信息进行决策;他们在评估解决问题的各种选择之间的权衡方面做得有多好?此外,项目团队将调查当学生就一个新的社会科学问题做出决定时,在结构化课堂环境中学习的实践是否会迁移到非结构化环境中。这项研究的成果包括新的理论和新的实践,包括:可移植的循证模型课程及其相关材料,用于教授关于社会科学问题的决策,包括评估规则;以及基于决策科学和行为心理学的新理论框架,描述学生在决策过程中的挑战。
项目成果
期刊论文数量(3)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Measurement of socio-scientific reasoning (SSR) and exploration of SSR as a progression of competencies
社会科学推理 (SSR) 的测量和对 SSR 作为能力进步的探索
- DOI:10.1080/09500693.2020.1849853
- 发表时间:2020
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.3
- 作者:Romine, William Lee;Sadler, Troy D.;Dauer, Jenny M.;Kinslow, Andrew
- 通讯作者:Kinslow, Andrew
Understanding Factors related to Undergraduate Student Decision-making about a Complex Socio-scientific Issue: Mountain Lion Management
了解与本科生就复杂社会科学问题做出决策相关的因素:山狮管理
- DOI:10.29333/ejmste/113757
- 发表时间:2020
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Alred, Ashley R;Dauer, Jenny Marie
- 通讯作者:Dauer, Jenny Marie
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Jenny Dauer其他文献
A framework for understanding the characteristics of complexity in biology
- DOI:
10.1186/s40594-016-0047-y - 发表时间:
2016-08-09 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:8.000
- 作者:
Joseph Dauer;Jenny Dauer - 通讯作者:
Jenny Dauer
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Supporting Students' Critical Evaluation of Evidence in Socioscientific Issues Contexts
支持学生对社会科学问题背景下的证据进行批判性评估
- 批准号:
2216214 - 财政年份:2022
- 资助金额:
$ 30万 - 项目类别:
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Bridging Science Education and Psychology Perspectives to Support Science Literacy Theory & Instruction
连接科学教育和心理学观点以支持科学素养理论
- 批准号:
1937657 - 财政年份:2020
- 资助金额:
$ 30万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
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