MPWG: Female Role Models in Science: Out of the Periphery and Into the Core Curriculum

9353760 Frank该项目的目标是增加可用的课程资源，以改善男女的科学教育。这些课程资源将帮助中学生命科学专业的学生和高中生物专业的学生：将科学视为一项探索性活动，由真人完成，涉及动手探究的方法；并扩大他们对科学家的形象，包括来自不同群体和不同时期的女性。具体来说，这个短期的、高度集中的项目将开发、审查和测试一套教学和激励模块，用于中学生命科学和高中生物入门课程，这将使教师能够轻松地将女性科学榜样的信息整合到课程中，同时增加课堂上使用的实践和探究方法。这些材料将与入门生物学的课程目标和国家标准项目提出的目标和方法相协调，包括国家研究委员会的科学教育标准项目、美国科学促进会的2061计划和国家科学技术协会的范围、序列和协调。这些模块将在初中和高中的课堂上进行评估，以评估它们的实用性和对学生的影响。参与课堂评估的教师将包括美国生理学会（APS）暑期高中教师研究计划和俄亥俄州立系统倡议项目发现的参与者。此外，这些模块将由参加全国生物教师协会、国家科学教师协会、美国科学促进会、妇女科学协会和美国生理学会会议的高中和初中教师的一系列讲习班的参与者进行评估。最后，这些模块将由美国国家生物教师出版物审查小组、美国科学学会教育委员会和美国科学学会女性生理学委员会进行审查。这些材料将通过研讨会和专业协会联盟的通知广泛传播，包括APS、AAAS、AWIS、NABT和NSTA。此外，该协会将在今后几年的每次年度会议上通过教师讲习班传播这些材料。＊＊＊

9353760 Frank The goal of the project is to increase the curricular resources available for improving the science education of both females and males. These curricular resources will help middle school life sciences students and high school biology students to: o view science as an exploratory activity, done by real people, and involving hands-on, inquiry approaches; and o expand their image of scientists to include women from diverse groups and time periods. Specifically, this short-term, highly-focused project will develop, review, and test a set of instructional and motivational drop-in modules for middle school life science and introductory high school biology classes which will allow teachers to easily integrate information about female science role models into the curriculum while increasing the hands-on, inquiry approaches used in class. These materials will be coordinated with curricular goals for introductory biology and with the goals and methods proposed by national standards projects, including the National Research Council's Science Education Standards Project, AAAS' Project 2061, and NSTA's Scope, Sequence, and Coordination. The modules will be evaluated in middle and high school classrooms for their usefulness and student impact. Teachers participating in this in-class evaluation will include participants in the American Physiological Society's (APS) Summer Research Program for High School Teachers and in the Ohio State Systemic Initiative - Project Discovery. In addition, the modules will be evaluated by participants in a series of workshops for high school and middle school teachers at meetings of the National Association of Biology Teachers, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Women in Science, and the American Physiological Society. Finally, the modules will be reviewed by the National Association of Biology Teachers' Publica tions Review Team, the APS Education Committee, and the APS Committee on Women in Physiology. The materials will be disseminated widely through workshops and notices from an alliance of professional associations, including the APS, AAAS, AWIS, NABT, and NSTA. In addition, the APS will disseminate the materials via workshops with teachers at each of its annual meetings in coming years. ***