Conference Meeting: How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to Contemporary Science Teaching?

该项目将支持在K-12科学课程中教授历史和科学哲学的会议。科学史和科学哲学是在科学学术研究中发挥重要作用的重要课题：科学史和科学学的历史和现状；方法及其创新；及其哲学和理论基础。HPS也以某种形式被包括在许多州的科学标准、国家标准和改革努力中。尽管存在这种普遍性和相关性，但令人惊讶的是，很少有经验证据表明HPS应该如何教授以达到预期的学习效果。HPS与科学成就的关系尤其如此，这可以通过大多数标准化测试来衡量，但HPS与其他结果的关系也是如此，例如探究技能、科学实践或科学推理能力。本次会议将设想一个关于HPS在K-12教育中的作用的研究议程。它将包括来自各个领域的学者：HPS；干学科;科学教育研究；心理学与认知科学；以及教育研究方法。为期2.5天的会议将包括三个活动：为期一天的研讨会，由美国和国际学者就HPS、科学教育、认知科学和教育研究进行公开讲座和小组讨论；为期一天的邀请研讨会，为未来的研究制定议程，并为未来的资助项目提出建议；以及项目指导委员会会议，以综合第1-2天的要点，并协调撰写专著，期刊特刊或类似的领域报告汇编。

This project will support a conference on teaching history and philosophy of science in K-12 science classes. The history and philosophy of science (HPS) are important topics that play a significant role in scholarship about science: its historical and current development; its methods and innovations in such methods; and its philosophical and theoretical bases. HPS is also included, in some form or other, in many state's science standards and in national standards and reform efforts. Despite this prevalence and relevance, there is surprisingly little empirical evidence on how HPS should be taught to achieve desired learning outcomes. This is particularly true of the relationship of HPS to science achievement, as measurable by most standardized tests, but it is also true of the relationship of HPS to other outcomes, such as inquiry skills, practices of science, or scientific reasoning ability. The present conference will envision a research agenda about the role of HPS in K-12 education. It will include scholars from a variety of fields: HPS; STEM disciplines; science education research; psychology and cognitive sciences; and education research methods. The 2.5-day conference will combine three activities: a one-day symposium with public lectures and panel discussions by US and international scholars on HPS, science education, cognitive science, and education research; a one-day invitational workshop to set an agenda for future research and ideas for proposals for future funded projects; and a meeting of the project steering committee to synthesize points from Days 1-2 and to coordinate writing of a monograph, journal special issue, or similar compilation of reports to the field.