GeoConnections: Evaluating the Impact of Place-Based, Culturally-Relevant Geoscience Learning Modules on Undergraduate Students' Connections to Geoscience Concepts and Careers

地理联系：评估基于地点、文化相关的地球科学学习模块对本科生与地球科学概念和职业的联系的影响

• 批准号: 1712378
• 负责人: Kenneth Ridgway
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1712378&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GeoConnections; Evaluating; Impact; Place; Based

GeoConnections is a research project designed to test the idea that including cultural relevance in introductory geology lessons will increase undergraduate students' connections to geoscience concepts and careers. Researchers from Purdue University in Indiana and Heritage University in Washington will test this idea by developing and assessing the impacts of geology activities built around cultural connections for Native American students. While some research has been conducted on Native Americans' understandings of geoscience, there has been less emphasis on recognizing and leveraging common connections Native students make between their traditional cultures and Western science. Thus, a key element of this research is to identify connections Native American students make between introductory geology concepts and their everyday lives and cultural traditions. The researchers will use these connections in modified geology activities that connect to the cultural as well as geographical sense of place experienced by students. This allows the researchers to assess the degree to which enhancing the cultural relevance of introductory geology activities increases undergraduate students' connections to geoscience concepts and careers. This approach may then be used with other student groups and their cultural connections to geologic concepts. The GeoConnections project will develop and assess Geoscience Education Modules (GEMs), which are based on cultural and geological connections. The GEMs are also created with the educational needs of geoscience instructors and Native American undergraduate students as a guiding focus for creating transformative learning experiences through metacognitive and reflexive pedagogies. By collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data on underrepresented and majority students' knowledge and conceptions of geoscience concepts and careers, both pre- and post-involvement in GEMs, the researchers will triangulate the impacts of including culturally relevant educational modules in undergraduate geology instruction. This will increase the collective knowledge of Native American views of science within a variety of educational settings and enhance understanding of the impacts of education based on ways that Native American students find relevance in Western scientific concepts through their individual cultures. This has the potential to be valuable to Native American students who have previously been unable to easily find cultural relevance in Western geoscientific concepts, and may provide an adaptable and expandable model to bridge the gap between the educational experiences of underrepresented groups and the overarching goal to create an equitable learning environment for diverse populations.

GeoConnections 是一个研究项目，旨在测试以下想法：在地质学入门课程中纳入文化相关性将增加本科生与地球科学概念和职业的联系。印第安纳州普渡大学和华盛顿传统大学的研究人员将通过开发和评估围绕美国原住民学生文化联系开展的地质活动的影响来检验这一想法。虽然对美洲原住民对地球科学的理解进行了一些研究，但很少重视认识和利用原住民学生在其传统文化和西方科学之间建立的共同联系。 因此，这项研究的一个关键要素是确定美国原住民学生在介绍性地质学概念与他们的日常生活和文化传统之间的联系。研究人员将在修改后的地质活动中利用这些联系，这些活动与学生所经历的地方的文化和地理意识相联系。这使得研究人员能够评估增强入门地质学活动的文化相关性在多大程度上增加了本科生与地球科学概念和职业的联系。然后可以将这种方法用于其他学生团体以及他们与地质概念的文化联系。 GeoConnections 项目将开发和评估基于文化和地质联系的地球科学教育模块 (GEM)。 GEM 还根据地球科学教师和美国原住民本科生的教育需求而创建，作为通过元认知和反思教学法创造变革性学习体验的指导重点。通过收集和分析参与 GEM 之前和之后代表性不足和大多数学生对地球科学概念和职业的知识和概念的定量和定性数据，研究人员将三角测量在本科地质学教学中纳入文化相关教育模块的影响。这将增加各种教育环境中美国原住民科学观的集体知识，并基于美国原住民学生通过其个人文化发现西方科学概念的相关性的方式，增强对教育影响的理解。这对于以前无法轻松找到西方地球科学概念中的文化相关性的美国原住民学生来说可能很有价值，并且可能提供一个适应性强且可扩展的模型来弥合代表性不足群体的教育经历与总体目标之间的差距。为不同人群创造公平的学习环境。