Science in the Classroom

科学教育改革的重点是让学生参与科学过程的主动学习策略。《科学》杂志提供了一种独特的方法来改变本科生的STEM学习环境，一种向本科生介绍重要的科学元素的方法：阅读主要的研究文章，交流科学，参与同行评审系统。通过阅读和解构精心挑选的科学论文，学生了解科学家如何设计实验和展示结果，让学生积极体验从一组数据到一个新结论的逻辑。此外，在他们的出版物中，科学家们讨论了他们如何纳入和确认其他科学家的结果，以及他们在哪里不同意先前的结论。他们还提到了下一步可能采取的措施，向学生们表明，仍有许多未解之谜。pi正在与一个由专家科学家和教育研究人员组成的团队合作开发这些资源，目的是让学生深入了解科学家如何设计实验，收集和分析数据，并提出他们的结论。因此，科学正在将科学论文转化为学习的工具，从本质上帮助学生扮演科学家的角色。目标是使学生真正理解科学事业：科学是认识世界的一种强有力的“方式”。PI团队正在通过使用在线注释、科学数字和方法的详细解释以及允许学生使用实际科学数据的额外活动来实现这一目标。

Science education reforms are focusing on active learning strategies that engage students in the process of science. Science (the journal) is offering a unique approach to transforming the undergraduate STEM learning environment, one that introduces undergraduates to important elements of science: reading primary research articles, communicating science, and engaging in a peer review system. Through reading and deconstructing carefully selected scientific papers, students gain an understanding of how scientists design their experiments and present their results, allowing students to actively experience the logic of getting from a set of data to a new conclusion. In addition, in their publications scientists discuss how they have incorporated and confirmed the results of other scientists, as well as where they disagree with prior conclusions. They also mention what steps might be taken next, showing students that there are still many unanswered questions. The PIs are working with a team of expert scientists and educational researchers to develop these resources, with the goal of providing students a deep understanding of how scientists design experiments, gather and analyze data, and present their conclusions. Science is thereby translating scientific papers into tools for learning, essentially helping students assume the persona of the scientist. The goal is to enable students to truly understand the scientific enterprise: science as a powerful "way of knowing" about the world. The PI team is accomplishing this goal through the use of online annotations, detailed explanations of scientific figures and methods, and additional activities allowing students to work with actual scientific data.