Summit for Examining the Potential for Crosscutting Concepts to Support Three-Dimensional Science Learning

该项目将召集K-12科学教育领域的一批学者举办讲习班，为研究交叉概念(CCCS)如何为科学教学和学习提供信息奠定基本的概念基础。CCCS与学科核心思想和科学实践一起，反映了最近的国家和州科学教育框架和标准所表达的科学能力的新愿景。这一愿景融合了真正的科学的“知”和“行”，并促进了作为公民有效参与社会所必需的知识和技能。峰会的主要目的是(1)开发初步的学习理论模型，以支持关于CCCS的研究计划；(2)勾画现有关于CCCS的研究领域；(3)确定可以指导关于CCCS在科学教学和学习中的作用的研究的中心问题。这些目标将帮助实地克服目前面临的挑战，如术语含糊、缺乏明确的理论共识和缺乏经验基础。该项目由EHR核心研究(ECR)计划资助。峰会将使研究CCCS的有经验的学者讨论关于CCCS的性质和目的的不同观点，以及它们为科学教学和学习提供信息的潜力。峰会参与者将包括研究人员、课程制定者、学校实践者和其他利益相关者，以便包括对概念和实证研究、课堂实施和教师专业学习的不同观点。峰会活动将集中于撰写立场文件，这些文件将在为期3天的活动过程中提交、同行批评和完善。议程将涉及具体主题，如CCCS如何支持科学学科(包括工程学)的整合，评估学生对CCCS的熟练程度，以及跨年级查看CCCS。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为是值得支持的。

This project will convene a group of scholars in K-12 science education for a workshop that will lay fundamental conceptual groundwork for research on how crosscutting concepts (CCCs) can inform science teaching and learning. CCCs, along with disciplinary core ideas and scientific practices, reflect a new vision of science proficiency expressed in recent national and state science education frameworks and standards. This vision integrates the "knowing" and "doing" of authentic science and promotes knowledge and skills necessary for participating productively in society as a citizen. The primary aims of the summit are to (1) develop preliminary theoretical models for learning that can underpin research programs on CCCs, (2) map the terrain of existing research on CCCs, and (3) identify central issues that can guide research about the roles of CCCs in science teaching and learning. These aims will help the field move beyond challenges that it currently faces, such as ambiguous terminology, a lack of clear theoretical consensus, and a lack of empirical grounding. This project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The summit will enable scholars who are experienced with studying CCCs to discuss the diverse perspectives that exist about the nature and purpose of CCCs, as well as their potential to inform science teaching and learning. Summit participants will include researchers, curriculum developers, school practitioners, and other stakeholders, so as to include diverse perspectives on conceptual and empirical research, classroom implementation, and teacher professional learning. Summit activities will focus on the authoring of position papers that will be presented, peer-critiqued, and refined over the course of the 3-day event. The agenda will address specific topics such as how CCCs can support the integration of science disciplines (including engineering), assessing student proficiency with CCCs, and viewing the CCCs across grade bands. Insights will be published in a proceedings that will articulate key issues and challenges; which will be made freely available to the science education community.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.