SBIR Phase I: Screencast Integration with Scientific Probeware Systems

这个SBIR第一阶段项目的重点是帮助学生展示批判性思维和推理技能，以便在涉及科学探测器系统的实践活动中，而不需要熟练的写作。教育工作者面临的一个挑战是确保教学以一种能够让所有学生都能理解的方式涵盖重要内容。在教授STEM概念(科学、技术、工程和数学)时，提供机会调查学生在日常生活中遇到的问题是至关重要的，就像科学家和数学家所做的那样；然而，许多学生没有熟练的写作能力来表达他们观察的复杂性，变得沮丧，对STEM科目失去兴趣。这个项目旨在提高学生在使用Probeware实验时演示、解释和记录他们的知识的成功率。这个项目有可能帮助学生享受科学实验并培养对科学的兴趣，这是在STEM职业生涯中寻求机会的强大动机。该项目的成功将支持科学和工程教育的显著改善，并有助于美国增加进入STEM领域的学生人数，以满足未来对科学家和工程师迅速增长的需求。这项技术一旦商业化，将为学区提供一个以学生为中心、与课程无关的学习和评估工具，其中包括一个创新的截图工具。它的使用会支持学生吗？在参与实验时分析和掌握复杂的STEM概念和实践，使用科学的探索性知识，不需要熟练的写作。这项研究的目标是开发一种便携式软件工具，使学生能够实时记录和有效地对学生进行教师评估？提防STEM活动。由此产生的学习工具将作为一个安装在闪存驱动器上的便携式应用程序发挥作用，实时捕捉学生的讲解和演示，并允许在带有显示屏的电子设备上进行回放操作，而不需要连接互联网。这种可移植性将在Probeware实验期间为学生提供支持，然后允许他们在学校内外实时或加速地重新体验整个实验室体验。这项创新将为体现下一代科学标准(NGSS)的科学技能和实践类型提供有形的文档。第一阶段的研究将集中于展示便携式应用程序的可行性和功能，该应用程序建立在以前NSF资助的核心技术基础上，衡量创新对小学、初中和高中学生的影响？知识整合、解释行为和科学实践，并论证了其在学生评估中使用的可行性。

This SBIR Phase I project is focused on helping students demonstrate critical thinking and reasoning skills for hands-on activities involving scientific probeware systems without requiring writing proficiency. A challenge facing educators is to ensure that instruction covers important content in a way that can reach all students. When teaching STEM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), it is essential to provide opportunities to investigate questions about the world that students encounter in daily life in much the same way that scientists and mathematicians do; however, many students do not have the writing proficiency to express the complexity of their observations, become frustrated and lose interest in STEM subjects. This project is intended to increase the success rate at which students demonstrate, explain, and document their knowledge when working with probeware experiments. This project has the potential to help students to enjoy scientific experimentation and develop an interest in science strong motivators for pursuing opportunities in STEM careers. The success of this project will support the significant improvement of science and engineering education, and help the United States to increase the number of students who enter STEM fields to meet the rapidly expanding demand for scientists and engineers in the future. This technology, when commercialized, will provide school districts a student-centered, curriculum-agnostic learning and assessment tool that incorporates an innovative screencasting tool. Its use will support students? analysis and mastery of complex STEM concepts and practices when participating in experiments using scientific probeware, without requiring writing proficiency. The goal of the research is to develop a portable software tool that enables real time student documentation and effective teacher assessment of students? probeware STEM activities. The resulting learning tool will function as a portable application housed on a flash drive, capture student explanations and demonstrations in real time, and allow playback operation on electronic devices with a display screen without the need for an Internet connection. This portability will provide support for students during probeware experiments, then allow them to revisit an entire lab experience in real or accelerated time within or away from school. The innovation will enable tangible documentation for the types of science skills and practices that embody the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Phase I research will focus on demonstrating the feasibility and functionality for a portable application that builds upon prior NSF-funded core technology, measure the impact of the innovation on elementary, middle, and high school students? knowledge integration, explanatory behaviors, and science practices, and demonstrate its feasibility for using the device in student assessment.