Crowdsourcing neuroscience: An interactive cloud-based citizen science platform for high school students, teachers, and researchers

众包神经科学：面向高中生、教师和研究人员的基于云的交互式公民科学平台

• 批准号: 1908482
• 负责人: Camillia Matuk
• 金额: $ 244.39万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1908482&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Crowdsourcing; neuroscience; interactive; cloud; based

Current priorities in school science education include engaging students in the practices of science as well as the ideas of science. This project will address this priority by developing a cloud-based platform that enables high school students, teachers, and scientists to conduct original neuroscience research in school classrooms. Before students and teachers initiate their own studies using the system, they will participate in existing research studies by contributing their own data and collaborating with researchers using the online, interactive system. When experienced with the system, students and teachers will become researchers by developing independent investigations and uploading them to the interactive platform. Both student-initiated and scientist-initiated proposals will be submitted to the platform, peer-reviewed by students and scientists, revised, and included in the online experimental bank. In addition to conducting their own studies using the platform, scientists will act as educators and mentors by populating the experiment bank with studies that can serve as models for students and provide science content for the educational resource center. This online system addresses a critical need in science education to involve students more fully and authentically in scientific inquiry where they gain experience in exploring the unknown rather than confirming what is already known.This early stage design and development study is guided by three goals: 1) Develop an open-science citizen science platform for conducting human brain and behavior research in the classroom, 2) Develop a remote neuroscience Student-Teacher-Scientists (STS) partnership program for high schools, and 3) Evaluate the design, development, and implementation of the program and its impacts on students and tachers. In developing this project, the project team will link two quickly emerging trends, one in science education, and one in the sciences. Consistent with current priorities in science education, the project will engage students and their teachers in authentic, active inquiry where they learn scientific practices by using them to conduct authentic inquiry where a search for knowledge is grounded in finding evidence-based answers to original questions. On the science side, students and their science partners will participate in an open science approach by pre-registering their research and committing to an analysis plan before data are collected. In this project, students will primarily be using reaction time and online systems to do research that includes study of their own brain function. The project research is guided by three research questions. How does an online citizen neuroscience STS platform: a) impact students' understanding of, and abilities to apply neuroscience and experimental design concepts? b) Impact students' interests in, and attitudes toward science, including an awareness of science careers and applications? and c) Affect teachers' attitudes towards neuroscience teaching, and the use of inquiry-based strategies? A design-based research approach will be used to iteratively design a sustainable and scalable inquiry-based neuroscience curriculum with teachers as design partners. The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

目前学校科学教育的优先事项包括让学生参与科学实践和科学思想。该项目将通过开发一个基于云的平台来解决这一优先事项，该平台使高中生、教师和科学家能够在学校课堂上进行原创神经科学研究。在学生和教师使用该系统启动自己的研究之前，他们将通过贡献自己的数据并使用在线互动系统与研究人员合作来参与现有的研究。当学生和教师体验到该系统时，他们将通过开发独立的调查并将其上传到互动平台来成为研究人员。学生发起的和科学家发起的提案都将提交到该平台，由学生和科学家进行同行审查，进行修改，并纳入在线实验库。除了使用该平台进行自己的研究外，科学家还将扮演教育者和导师的角色，向实验库填充可以作为学生模型的研究，并为教育资源中心提供科学内容。这个在线系统解决了科学教育中的一个关键需求，即让学生更全面、更真实地参与科学探究，在那里他们获得探索未知的经验，而不是确认已知的东西。这项早期的设计和开发研究以三个目标为指导：1)开发一个开放的公民科学平台，用于在课堂上进行人脑和行为研究；2)为高中开发远程神经科学学生-教师-科学家(STS)合作计划；以及3)评估该计划的设计、开发和实施及其对学生和教师的影响。在开发这个项目时，项目团队将把两个迅速出现的趋势联系起来，一个是科学教育，另一个是科学。与当前科学教育的优先事项一致，该项目将使学生和他们的教师参与真实、积极的探究，通过使用他们进行真实的探究来学习科学实践，其中对知识的探索以寻找原始问题的循证答案为基础。在科学方面，学生和他们的科学伙伴将参与一种开放的科学方法，在收集数据之前预先登记他们的研究并承诺执行分析计划。在这个项目中，学生们将主要使用反应时间和在线系统进行研究，包括研究他们自己的大脑功能。本课题研究以三个研究问题为指导。在线公民神经科学STS平台：a)如何影响学生对神经科学和实验设计概念的理解和应用能力？B)影响学生对科学的兴趣和态度，包括对科学事业和应用的认识？以及c)影响教师对神经科学教学的态度，以及探究式策略的使用？以设计为基础的研究方法将被用来迭代地设计一种可持续和可扩展的基于探究的神经科学课程，教师作为设计伙伴。探索研究PREK-12计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高Pre-K-12学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验上的证明。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Students doing citizen science on an unfolding pandemic. In, Proceedings of the International Society for the Learning Sciences Conference

学生们针对正在发生的流行病进行公民科学。

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: International Society of the Learning Sciences
• 作者: Vasudevan, V.

A web-based tool for participatory science learning in the context of human psychology research

人类心理学研究背景下的参与式科学学习的网络工具

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
• 作者: Dikker, S.;Yetman-Michaelson, L.;Shevchenko, Y.;Burgas, K.;Chaloner, K.;Sole, M.;Davidesco, I.;Martin, R.;Matuk, C.
• 通讯作者: Matuk, C.

Students doing citizen science on an unfolding pandemic

学生们对正在发生的流行病进行公民科学

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the International Society for the Learning Sciences Conference
• 作者: Vasudevan, V.

Students Learning About Science by Investigating an Unfolding Pandemic

学生通过调查正在发生的流行病来学习科学

• DOI: 10.1177/23328584211054850
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: AERA Open
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Matuk, Camillia;Martin, Rebecca;Vasudevan, Veena;Burgas, Kim;Chaloner, Kim;Davidesco, Ido;Sadhukha, Sushmita;Shevchenko, Yury;Bumbacher, Engin;Dikker, Suzanne
• 通讯作者: Dikker, Suzanne

MindHive: An Online Citizen Science Tool and Curriculum for Human Brain and Behavior Research

MindHive：用于人脑和行为研究的在线公民科学工具和课程

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Connected science learning
• 作者: Dikker, S.;Shevchenko, Y.;Burgas, K.;Chaloner, K.;Sole, M.;Yetman-Michaelson, L.;Davidesco, I.;Martin, R.;Matuk, C.
• 通讯作者: Matuk, C.