General Education Course Development for Earth System Science and Global Change

地球系统科学和全球变化的通识教育课程开发

• 批准号: 9455714
• 负责人: Lisa Graumlich
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-04-01 至 1999-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9455714&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: General; Education; Course; Development; Earth

Undergraduate science education for both students majoring in science and engineering, and those students who are non-science majors must evolve to bring students in contact with the tools needed to efficiently grasp critical and emerging scientific issues. In 1991, the University of Arizona started a two-semester sequence "Introduction to Global Change" to teach non-science majors about the Earth system. The course teaches basic scientific principles in the context of global problems and challenges facing scientists, policy makers and citizens alike. The current project further develops this general-science course sequence in order to more fully integrate information technologies into the courses, and to explicitly design materials that promote collaborative learning and critical thinking skills through several different instructional strategies. PIs are working with an independent, professional evaluator to develop and implement 10 modules for the two-course sequence. A module is a course unit focusing on a single topic, and involves laboratory sections, lectures, homework, discussions or other resources. The focus of their efforts is on: i) developing computer-based laboratory exercises as the centerpieces of the modules, ii) implementing the computer-based tools with the classes, iii) assembling and preparing the additional material needed to complete each module (e.g. visual aids, study questions, background material, references), and iv) documenting each module in a workbook for the classes. The workbook, including documentation of software and data, will be made available to faculty at other colleges and universities interested in developing similar global-change courses. An important aspect of this project is the explicit assessment of the effectiveness of different instructional strategies on students of different gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class. This multidisciplinary teaching effort is part of the University of Arizona's global-change resea rch program.

针对科学和工程专业的学生以及非科学专业的学生的本科科学教育必须发展，以使学生与有效掌握批判和新兴的科学问题所需的工具联系。 1991年，亚利桑那大学开始了两个学期的“全球变化简介”，以教授非科学专业的大满贯。该课程在全球问题和科学家，政策制定者和公民都面临的全球问题和挑战的背景下教授基本科学原则。 当前的项目进一步开发了此通用课程序列，以便将信息技术更完全整合到课程中，并明确设计材料，以通过多种不同的教学策略来促进协作学习和批判性思维技能。 PI与独立的专业评估者合作，为两道菜序列开发和实施10个模块。模块是一个专注于单个主题的课程单元，涉及实验室部分，讲座，作业，讨论或其他资源。他们的努力的重点是：i）开发基于计算机的实验室练习作为模块的核心，ii）使用类别的计算机工具实施基于计算机的工具，iii）组装并准备完成每个模块所需的其他材料（例如，视觉辅助工具，研究问题，背景材料，参考资料，参考文献）和iv）在课堂上记录每个模块的每个模块。该工作簿，包括软件和数据的文档，将向其他有兴趣开发类似全球变化课程的学院和大学的教师提供。 该项目的一个重要方面是对不同教学策略对不同性别，种族和社会经济阶级学生的有效性的明确评估。这项多学科的教学工作是亚利桑那大学全球变化重新安置计划的一部分。