Geology of Utah's National Parks and Monuments: A Field-Based Education Program

亨通9809813 该项目的目的是开发，进行，并评估一个新的，以实地为基础的课程，旨在让开始地球科学和地球科学教育的学生，专业的地球科学教育工作者有机会获得解决研究型问题的实践经验。 学生的组合是有针对性的，以便专业教育工作者可以在课程期间担任本科生的导师，并鼓励本科生从事教学职业。 该项目的总体目标是：（1）提高参与的大学生的积极性和技术能力;（2）增加从事教学职业的技术能力和积极性高的专业地球科学家的人数。 该课程将主要在犹他州东南部授课，并将使用在南极洲，拱门和圆顶礁国家公园，天然桥梁和恐龙国家纪念碑作为教学辅助暴露的优秀地质特征。 预计将有助于实现其目标的课程的主要组成部分是：基于实地的学习环境，注重解决问题，使用实验性学习方法，使用强化教学模块，鼓励小组学习，强调发展和测试假设，要求综合各种来源的信息，强调负责产生在现场观察到的过程，广泛纳入通信经验，以及课程为学生提供未来学习框架的能力。 课程是否成功达到目标将通过一套课程前/课程后态度调查和一种旨在测量高阶认知技能的工具进行评估。 一个诊断学习日志工具将被用来衡量学生在课程中的进展。

HUNTOON 9809813 The aim of this project is to develop, conduct, and assess the effectiveness of a new, field-based course designed to give beginning geoscience and earth science education students, and professional earth science educators an opportunity to obtain hands-on experience solving research-type questions. The mix of students is targeted so that professional educators can act as mentors for undergraduate students during the course an encourage undergraduates to pursue a career in teaching. The general goals of the project are: 1) an increase in motivation and technical competence of participating university students; and, 2) an increase in the number of technically competent and motivated professional geoscientists who pursue careers in teaching. The course will be taught primarily in southeastern Utah, and will use the excellent geologic features exposed in Canyonlands, Arches and Capitol Reef National Parks, and Natural Bridges and Dinosaur National Monuments as teaching aids. Key components of the course that are expected to contribute to attainment of its goals are: a field-based learning environment, a focus on problem solving, use of experimental learning methods, use of intensive instruction modules, encouragement of group learning, emphasis on development and testing of hypotheses, the requirement that information from a variety of sources be integrated, an emphasis on the processes responsible for producing what is observed in the field, extensive incorporation of communication experiences, and the course's ability to provide students with a framework for future learning. The course's success at meeting the goals will be assessed using a suite of pre-course/post-course attitude surveys and an instrument designed to measure higher-order cognitive skills. A diagnostic learning log instrument will be used to measure students' progress during the course.