The emergence of diagnostic reasoning and scientific thinking.

这个项目是布朗大学和普罗维登斯儿童博物馆（PCM）的合作项目，重点研究儿童社会认知的发展，特别是关于知识如何以及为什么介导诊断推理的发展。研究小组将探索儿童博物馆、科学中心和动物园等非正式科学机构使用的工具。这些工具可用于支持儿童的元认知周围的诊断推理和因果学习，以及更广泛的沿着照顾者的理解，他们的孩子的学习过程中，非正式的科学教育（伊势）设置。可供选择的产品包括：（a）博物馆专业人员讲习班和研究手册;（B）博客;（c）关于元认知和使学习可见的跨学科文献综述;（d）重点关注博物馆环境中学习和游戏的焦点小组报告和对PCM的照顾者和儿童的访谈;（e）旨在帮助儿童及其照顾者了解其元认知过程的一系列工具;（f）为博物馆参观者提供展览标签和其他沟通工具;以及（g）在PCM设立一个永久的思维实验室空间，用于向公众宣传伙伴关系的工作和研究。这些可交付成果将为伊势专业人员在与儿童及其护理人员合作时可以采用的实践模式的发展提供信息，其目标是使他们的学习和学习过程可见。这个研究项目将通过围绕儿童的推理和科学思维建立理论理解来推进这一领域。它还将通过为日常采用的教学决策和战略提供经验支持，在学术研究人员和非正式科学教育研究人员、教育工作者和管理人员中建设能力。

This project, a collaboration between Brown University and Providence Children's Museum (PCM) focuses on investigating children's developing social cognition, particularly about how and why knowledge mediates the development of diagnostic reasoning. The research team will explore tools for use by informal science institutions like children's museums, science centers, and zoos. These tools may be used to support children's metacognition around diagnostic reasoning and causal learning as well as more broadly along with caregivers' understanding of their children's learning processes in informal science education (ISE) settings. Deliverables include: (a) a workshop and research manual for museum professionals; (b) a blog; (c) a cross-discipline literature review on metacognition and making learning visible; (d) reports from focus groups and interviews with caregivers and children at PCM focused on learning and play in the museum context; (e) a range of tools designed to help children and their caregivers become aware of their metacognitive processes; (f) exhibit labels and other communication tools for visitors to the museum; and (g) a permanent Mind Lab space at PCM that will be used to communicate the work of the partnership and research to the public. These deliverables will inform the development of a model of practice that ISE professionals can employ when working with children and their caregivers with the goal of making their learning and learning processes visible. This research project will advance the field by building theoretical understanding around children's reasoning and scientific thinking. It will also build capacity among academic researchers and informal science education researchers, educators, and administrators by providing empirical support for pedagogical decisions and strategies employed on a daily basis.