From Research to Practice: Redesigning AP Science Courses to Advance Science Literacy and Support Learning with Understanding

美国大学理事会寻求美国国家科学基金会的支持，以提高国家高级预修科学课程的教与学质量。根据国家研究委员会报告《学习和理解：改善美国高中数学和科学的高级研究》的建议，该项目将为AP生物、化学、物理和环境科学的课程、评估和专业发展建立框架。来自《学习与理解》的建议呼吁关注每一门科学的深度与广度，并“帮助学生对一门学科的内容和统一概念达成深刻的概念性理解。”大学理事会在创建新框架时将遵循的其他建议是：(1)阐明学生在每个领域如何学习的明确认知模型，(2)确定中长期学习结果，(3)描述可观察到的表现指标，(4)设计引出这些指标的结构化表现任务，以及(5)培训教师利用他们对学习模式的理解来选择适当的教学活动。该项目还建立在规划活动(电子资源0332223)的基础上，为AP生物学课程的重新设计创造了一个过程。

The College Board seeks NSF support to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the nation's Advanced Placement (AP) science courses. Based on recommendations from the National Research Council's report "Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools," the project will build frameworks for curriculum, assessment and professional development in AP Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Environmental Science. Recommendations from Learning and Understanding call for focusing on depth versus breadth in each of the sciences, and "helping students achieve deep conceptual understanding of the content and unifying concepts of a discipline." Other recommendations that the College Board will pursue in creating the new frameworks are: (1) articulation of an explicit cognitive model of how students learn in each domain, (2) identification of intermediate and long-term learning outcomes, (3) description of observable performance indicators, (4) design of structured performance tasks that elicit those indicators, and (5) training teachers to use their understanding of the learning model to select appropriate instructional activities.The project also builds on a planning activity (EHR 0332223) that has created a process for AP course redesign of the AP Biology course.