Workshop on the Nature and Practices of Science to Support Educator Guides for *Science* in the Classroom

关于科学的本质和实践的研讨会，以支持课堂上*科学*的教育者指南

• 批准号: 1712039
• 负责人: Shirley Malcom
• 金额: $ 29.75万
• 依托单位: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 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: 2017-04-15 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1712039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Nature; Practices; Science; Support

This project will offer a workshop that will enhance the impact of the ongoing "*Science* in the Classroom (SitC)" project (NSF Awards DUE-1043998, DUE-1224661, and DUE-1525596). SitC is developing a collection of new educational resources -- richly annotated versions of research articles from the journal *Science* -- along with methods and guides to help undergraduate STEM educators use these resources effectively in their classrooms. This approach uses leading-edge research both to teach STEM concepts and to excite students about the frontiers of science. Through the workshop, the SitC project team will provide a foundation for teaching the nature and practices of science, in the context of SitC resources, to college and university faculty, pre-service teachers, graduate students, postdocs, and other STEM professionals, and the workshop will allow the SitC project to leverage the expertise of the participants to develop educator guides for SitC resources. The workshop will have three primary benefits: (1) Participants will learn how to develop high-quality educator guides focusing on the nature of science and scientific practices, a skill that is useful for STEM education but is also transferable to a wide variety of STEM careers. (2) Through the new educator guides, which will be freely available on the Web, the workshop will increase the accessibility of annotated primary literature resources that have been vetted by educational experts. (3) Focusing on the nature and practices of science in a teaching context has been shown to contribute to the improvement of essential research skills. Therefore, participants in the workshop may improve their own research skills and become better scientists.The project will encourage adoption of education research in the practice of teaching in the STEM disciplines. This adoption will take place at two levels. First, members of the undergraduate STEM education community will be provided a professional development opportunity in using primary literature to teach the nature and practices of science. Successful completion of the workshop should result in greater understanding of the benefits of teaching the nature and practices of science. Recent research has shown that when teaching in the context of inquiry-based thinking rooted in the nature of science, graduate students and postdocs reinforced their own learning and, by extension, became better researchers. Therefore, providing the undergraduate STEM education community with a foundation for teaching the nature and practices of science will also improve the quality of the research training and science careers participants are involved in. The second level of adoption will result from the educator guides that participants will produce as part of the workshop. These guides will accompany SitC resources and will be freely available to STEM educators via the Web.

这个项目将提供一个研讨会，以加强正在进行的“课堂上的科学”项目的影响(国家科学基金会奖到期-1043998，到期-1224661，到期-1525596)。SITC正在开发一套新的教育资源--来自《科学》杂志的带有丰富注释的研究文章版本--以及帮助本科生STEM教育工作者在课堂上有效使用这些资源的方法和指南。这种方法使用前沿研究，既教授STEM概念，又激发学生对科学前沿的兴趣。通过研讨会，SITC项目小组将在SITC资源的背景下，向学院和大学教师、职前教师、研究生、博士后和其他STEM专业人员提供教授科学的性质和实践的基础，研讨会将使SITC项目能够利用参与者的专业知识为SITC资源开发教育者指南。讲习班将有三个主要好处：(1)与会者将学习如何编写注重科学和科学实践性质的高质量教育者指南，这项技能对STEM教育很有用，但也可以转移到各种STEM职业中。(2)通过将在网上免费提供的新的教育者指南，讲习班将增加经教育专家审查的带注释的初级文献资料的可及性。(3)在教学背景下关注科学的性质和实践被证明有助于提高基本的研究技能。因此，参加工作坊的人可以提高自己的研究技能，成为更好的科学家。该项目将鼓励在STEM学科的教学实践中采用教育研究。这种采用将在两个层面上进行。首先，本科生STEM教育社区的成员将在使用初级文学教授科学的性质和实践方面获得专业发展机会。讲习班的圆满完成将使人们更好地了解教授科学的性质和实践的益处。最近的研究表明，当在根植于科学本质的探究式思维的背景下进行教学时，研究生和博士后加强了自己的学习，进而成为更好的研究人员。因此，为本科生STEM教育界提供教授科学的性质和实践的基础，也将提高参与者参与的研究培训和科学职业的质量。第二个层面的采用将来自参与者将作为研讨会的一部分编写的教育者指南。这些指南将与SITC资源一起提供，并将通过网络免费提供给STEM教育工作者。

项目成果

Annotated primary scientific literature: A pedagogical tool for undergraduate courses

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000103
• 发表时间: 2019-01-01
• 期刊: PLOS BIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 9.8
• 作者: Kararo, Matthew;McCartney, Melissa
• 通讯作者: McCartney, Melissa