Applying Technology and Triarchic Enhancement to Instruction and Assessment in a School Science Curriculum: Air-Traffic Control, Earthquake, and Air-Pollution Analysis

通过一个项目和一个项目之间的跨学科合作，该项目实现了对学生学习理论的广泛验证，并因在科学课堂上使用互联网技术作为实时资源而获得广泛认可。人类智力三元理论将为研究大约1600名初中生和高中生在四种不同教学条件下的学习成绩水平提供一种系统的方法。这四种情况是：(1)传统的纸笔教学；(2)使用(非互联网)计算机的传统教学；(3)使用档案数据而不使用计算机的三元强化教学；(4)通过互联网使用实时数据的三元强化教学。这四个条件中的每一个都将在三个不同的课堂环境中实施：(1)7年级和8年级学生学习地震和地震现象；(2)11年级和12年级学生学习空气质量和污染；(3)11年级和12年级学生学习导航中使用的速度矢量。重点从城市学校、郊区学校和农村学校招聘教师。教学条件将由学校随机分配。由于史蒂文斯理工学院正在实施教师专业发展计划，涉及亚利桑那州、佛罗里达州、新泽西州和俄亥俄州的15,000多名教师，因此在这四个州招聘学校将确保多样性。这项研究将在五年内进行。在五年级之前，所有教师将被告知关于TriArchic方法的有效性、在教学中使用实时互联网资源以及这两种努力之间的协同作用的中期研究结果。

Through an interdisciplinary collaboration between a program that has achieved extensive validation of a theory of student learning and a program that has gained wide recognition for using Internet technology as a real-time resource in science classrooms. The triarchic theory of human intelligence will provide a systematic methodology for the study of student learning achievement levels of roughly 1600 middle school and high school students as they pursue lessons in the context of four different instructional conditions. The four conditions are: (1) traditional teaching using paper-and-pencil; (2) traditional teaching with (non-Internet ) computer use; (3) triarchically enhanced teaching using archived data but no computers; (4) triarchically enhanced teaching using real-time data via Internet. Each of the four conditions will be implemented in three different classroom settings: (1) the study of earthquakes and seismic phenomena by 7th and 8th grade students; (2) the study of air quality and pollution by 11th and 12th grade students; and (3) the study of velocity vectors used in navigation by 11th and 12th grade students. Strong emphasis will be placed upon recruiting teachers from urban schools, suburban and rural schools. Instructional conditions will be assigned randomly by school. Since Stevens Institute of Technology is pursuing teacher professional development programs involving more than 15,000 teachers in the states of Arizona, Florida, New Jersey and Ohio, recruiting schools in these four states will ensure diversity. The research will be conducted over a five-year period. Prior to Year 5, all teachers will be informed about interim research results concerning the efficacy of the triarchic approach, the use of real time Internet resources in instruction and the synergies between these two efforts to enhance learning.