Integrating Computation into Science Teaching and Learning in Grades 6-8

将计算融入 6-8 年级的科学教学

• 批准号: 1842359
• 负责人: Susan McKay
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1842359&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Computation; into; Science; Teaching

As a result of the powerful innovation and application of computing in STEM disciplines, the STEM+C program addresses an urgent need for real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational preparation of students from the early grades through high school (pre-K-12). This project will advance research and development of new transdisciplinary approaches to computational STEM teaching and learning that will integrate the fields of education at the middle grade levels in earth, life, and physical sciences. This project will address the rural education issue of access to STEM by rural schools. Moreover, both students and teachers will be brought up to speed in computational phenomena applied to middle school youth in one of the most rural locations in the State of Maine. This project will investigate the professional learning experiences and pedagogical content knowledge that teachers need in order to integrate computing in their teaching of science. The research will lead to an evidence-based model of professional development and curricular supports for STEM+C integration at the middle level. A randomized controlled trial will provide knowledge about the impacts of this integration on student learning of computing and STEM. The work will include creation of three vetted modules to integrate computing with middle-school science and a graduate course to help prepare future will teachers for effective integration. Findings and products from this study will be disseminated to researchers and practitioner communities working to understand and implement integration of computing with STEM teaching and learning.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

由于计算在STEM学科中的强大创新和应用的结果，STEM+C计划迫切需要对早期到高中生到高中的学生的现实世界，跨学科和计算准备工作（Pre-K-12）。该项目将推进对计算STEM教学的新跨学科方法的研究和开发，这些方法将使地球，生命和物理科学的中级教育领域融合教育领域。该项目将解决农村学校获得STEM的农村教育问题。此外，在缅因州最乡村的中学年轻人中，学生和教师都将逐步提高对中学青年的计算现象的速度。该项目将调查教师所需的专业学习经验和教学内容知识，以便在科学教学中将计算整合在一起。这项研究将导致基于证据的专业发展模型和中间级的STEM+C集成的课程支持。一项随机对照试验将提供有关这种整合对计算和STEM学生学习的影响的知识。这项工作将包括创建三个审查的模块，以将计算与中学科学整合在一起，并提供一门研究生课程，以帮助准备未来的教师有效整合。这项研究的发现和产品将被传播给研究人员和从业人员社区，旨在理解和实施与STEM教学和学习的计算一体化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识分子的智力优点和更广泛的影响，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。