Restructuring Middle School Science around Grand Challenges

围绕重大挑战重组中学科学

• 批准号: 2201192
• 负责人: Troy Sadler
• 金额: $ 214.61万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2201192&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Restructuring; Middle; Science; around; Grand

This project aims to restructure middle school science education around Grand Challenges (GCs) such as pandemics, climate events, and diminishing biodiversity. The grand challenges affect people's lives and can impact the future of the next generations across the globe. Anchoring science education around grand challenges can motivate students learning and provide a meaningful context for science curriculum and assessment. By engaging in the units around GCs, middle school science teachers and students will have opportunities to work with real data, engage in argumentation based on evidence, and take part in solutions to the grand challenges. In addition, aligned assessments developed with these GC units will help educators and researchers to close the gap between assessment and instruction. This project will create new knowledge about how GC-oriented learning experiences impact middle school students' interest in science, motivation to engage with science, and their learning of science ideas and competencies. As a comparative study with the Israeli school context, the project will also create knowledge about how national assessment contexts and teacher experience shape the enactment of and result from GC-oriented learning experiences. The project will pursue the following three goals: 1) Develop four GC units (each lasting 3-4 weeks) with associated assessments to be interspersed throughout 7th-grade science. 2) Collaborate with middle school science teachers to enact, study, and revise the GC units. 3) Research student outcomes associated with the GC units and factors that impact the feasibility and quality of GC-oriented learning experiences in middle school science. A mixed methods research design will be employed to couple quantitative comparisons of student outcomes with case studies of classroom enactments and teacher and student perspectives. Because of Israel's unique national assessment context, which has recently adopted assessments that align with GC-oriented teaching, research will take place in both the US and Israel. The GC framework and curriculum will incorporate principles from culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies to support learning among diverse learners. The project would also create a new, global network for reconsidering and restructuring science education to better meet the needs of teachers and students in a rapidly changing world.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.

该项目旨在围绕大挑战（GC）重组中学科学教育，如流行病，气候事件和生物多样性减少。这些重大挑战影响到人们的生活，并可能影响到地球仪子孙后代的未来。围绕重大挑战开展科学教育可以激励学生学习，并为科学课程和评估提供有意义的背景。通过参与GC周围的单元，中学科学教师和学生将有机会使用真实的数据，参与基于证据的论证，并参与解决重大挑战。此外，与这些GC单位开发的对齐评估将帮助教育工作者和研究人员缩小评估和教学之间的差距。该项目将创造新的知识如何GC为导向的学习经验影响中学生的科学兴趣，动机从事科学，科学的想法和能力的学习。作为一项与以色列学校环境的比较研究，该项目还将创造有关国家评估环境和教师经验如何塑造以GC为导向的学习经验的制定和结果的知识。该项目将追求以下三个目标：1）开发四个GC单元（每个单元持续3-4周），并在整个7年级科学中进行相关评估。2)与中学科学教师合作制定，研究和修订GC单元。3)研究与GC单元相关的学生成果以及影响中学科学中GC导向学习体验的可行性和质量的因素。一个混合的方法研究设计将采用耦合定量比较学生的成果与案例研究的课堂教学和教师和学生的观点。由于以色列独特的国家评估背景，最近采用了与GC导向教学相一致的评估，研究将在美国和以色列进行。全球合作框架和课程将纳入文化上敏感和可持续的教学原则，以支持不同学习者的学习。该项目还将创建一个新的全球网络，重新考虑和重组科学教育，以更好地满足教师和学生在快速变化的世界中的需求。发现研究preK-12计划（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具。DRK-12项目中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为拟议项目提供理论和经验依据的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。