Learning Scientific Practice in Virtual Environments

在虚拟环境中学习科学实践

• 批准号: 9809579
• 负责人: William Prothero
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-10-01 至 2001-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9809579&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Learning; Scientific; Practice; Virtual; Environments

9809579 Computer technology is taking an increasingly important role in geoscience education, however in depth studies of how students can best learn from a virtual environment are lacking. With prior NSF funding, Prothero has created a "virtual environment" for an undergraduate geoscience course for UCSB's large oceanography class of 200 to 300 students per quarter. The PI's - a cognitive psychologist (Mayer), a science education researcher (Kelly), and a geophysicist (Prothero) - will collaborate to determine the effectiveness of learning in this "virtual environment". Some of the questions to be investigated include 1) how can educational technologies be used to create a virtual environment that promotes students' understanding of science?, 2) what are the necessary characteristics of a virtual environment that make it an effective learning tool?, 3) how can educational technologies support students' learning of scientific practices, such as posing researchable questions, arguing from evidence, weighing alternative explanations? The results of this research will be used to create a teacher's manual oriented toward middle school and college level teachers of earth science. The manual will be made available on the Web and in other forms as necessary.

9809579计算机技术在地球科学教育中发挥了越来越重要的作用，但是在对学生如何最好地从虚拟环境中学习的深度研究。 通过先前的NSF资金，Prothero为UCSB的大型海洋学课程创建了一个“虚拟环境”，每季度的200至300名学生。 PI是一名认知心理学家（Mayer），一名科学教育研究人员（Kelly）和地球物理学家（Prothero） - 将在此“虚拟环境”中协作确定学习的有效性。要调查的一些问题包括1）如何使用教育技术来创建一个虚拟环境，以促进学生对科学的理解？，2）虚拟环境的必要特征使其成为一种有效的学习工具？，3）如何支持学生对科学实践的学习，例如从证据中提出可提出研究的科学习惯，从证据中提出替代性解释，称呼替代性解释？ 这项研究的结果将用于创建针对地球科学的中学和大学教师的教师手册。该手册将根据需要在网络上和其他形式上提供。