Developing Teaching Tools to Promote Transfer of Core Concept Knowledge Across Biological Scales and Sub-disciplines.

开发教学工具以促进跨生物尺度和子学科的核心概念知识的转移。

• 批准号: 2336777
• 负责人: Jennifer Knight
• 金额: $ 23.27万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Teaching; Tools; Promote; Transfer

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving curricula in biology education. This project will develop, test, and publish a collection of Core Concept Teaching Tools (CCTTs) that teach students how to transfer their knowledge of biology core concepts across scales and sub-disciplines to understand novel and complex biological phenomena. The Vision and Change (V&C) report (AAAS, 2011) identified five core concepts in biology and called on undergraduate biology instructors to use these concepts to connect their teaching and their students’ learning across biological scales and subdisciplines. The report highlighted the need to prepare undergraduate biology students to contribute to emerging interdisciplinary fields that address complex problems by building their ability to make connections across seemingly disparate pieces of information, concepts, and questions. However, currently available instructional tools primarily focus on teaching core concepts in sub-disciplinary contexts. The CCTTs developed as part of this project will address the need for instructional tools that teach students to transfer core concept knowledge across scales and subdisciplines.The project will bring biology educators with expertise across scales and sub-disciplines together to participate in faculty learning communities to develop, test, and publish a collection of CCTTs in CourseSource. Each CCTT will begin with a brief narrative describing a complex biological phenomenon. The activities and questions following the narrative will be constructed using Branchaw and Cary’s Conceptual Elements Framework (2017) to guide students through the process of recognizing the core concept elements in the narrative, recalling what they have already learned about those core concept elements, and applying their prior knowledge to understand the novel phenomenon described in the narrative. Approximately 45 CCTTs will be developed, and pilot tested at diverse institutions across the nation, before they are published in CourseSource. Instructors will be able to search the CourseSource database for CCTTs by subdisciplines, core concepts, and conceptual elements, and download them for free. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目旨在通过改进生物教育课程来服务于国家利益。 该项目将开发、测试和发布一系列核心概念教学工具（CCTT），教学生如何跨尺度和子学科转移生物学核心概念知识，以理解新颖而复杂的生物现象。愿景与变革 (V&C) 报告（AAAS，2011）确定了生物学中的五个核心概念，并呼吁本科生物学教师使用这些概念将他们的教学和学生跨生物尺度和子学科的学习联系起来。该报告强调，需要培养生物学本科生，通过培养他们在看似不同的信息、概念和问题之间建立联系的能力，为解决复杂问题的新兴跨学科领域做出贡献。然而，目前可用的教学工具主要侧重于在子学科背景下教授核心概念。作为该项目的一部分开发的 CCTT 将满足教学工具的需求，这些工具教导学生跨尺度和子学科转移核心概念知识。该项目将把具有跨尺度和子学科专业知识的生物教育工作者聚集在一起，参与教师学习社区，在 CourseSource 中开发、测试和发布 CCTT 集合。每个 CCTT 都会以描述复杂生物现象的简短叙述开始。叙述后的活动和问题将使用布兰乔和卡里的概念元素框架（2017）构建，引导学生认识叙述中的核心概念元素，回忆他们已经学到的关于这些核心概念元素的知识，并运用他们的先验知识来理解叙述中描述的新现象。在将其发布到 CourseSource 之前，将开发大约 45 个 CCTT，并在全国各地的不同机构进行试点测试。教师将能够按子学科、核心概念和概念元素在 CourseSource 数据库中搜索 CCTT，并免费下载。 NSF IUSE：EDU 计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。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。