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重点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的神经科学研究。在学生和教师使用该系统开始自己的研究之前，他们将通过贡献自己的数据并使用在线交互式系统与研究人员合作来参与现有的研究。当体验了该系统后，学生和教师将通过开展独立调查并将其上传到互动平台来成为研究人员。学生发起的提案和科学家发起的提案都将提交到平台，由学生和科学家进行同行评审、修改并纳入在线实验库。除了使用该平台进行自己的研究之外，科学家还将充当教育者和导师，通过在实验库中填充可以作为学生模型并为教育资源中心提供科学内容的研究。该在线系统满足了科学教育的关键需求，让学生更全面、更真实地参与科学探究，在探索未知而不是确认已知的过程中获得经验。这项早期设计和开发研究以三个目标为指导：1) 开发一个开放科学公民科学平台，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) 合作项目，以及 3）评估项目的设计、开发和实施及其对学生和教师的影响。在开发这个项目时，项目团队将把两种快速出现的趋势联系起来，一种是科学教育，另一种是科学。 与当前科学教育的优先事项一致，该项目将让学生和他们的老师进行真实、积极的探究，他们通过使用科学实践进行真实的探究来学习科学实践，其中对知识的探索是基于寻找原始问题的基于证据的答案。在科学方面，学生和他们的科学合作伙伴将通过预先注册他们的研究并在收集数据之前承诺分析计划来参与开放科学方法。在这个项目中，学生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。该项目研究以三个研究问题为指导。在线公民神经科学 STS 平台如何： a) 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，包括对科学职业和应用的认识？ c) 影响教师对神经科学教学的态度以及基于探究的策略的使用？将采用基于设计的研究方法，以教师作为设计合作伙伴，迭代设计可持续且可扩展的基于探究的神经科学课程。发现研究 preK-12 计划 (DRK-12) 旨在通过创新资源、模型和工具的研究和开发，显着增强 preK-12 学生和教师对科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 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，为拟议项目提供理论和实证依据。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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.