Stimulating Young Scientists To Engage, Motivate and Synthesize (SYSTEMS)

刺激年轻科学家参与、激励和综合（系统）

• 批准号: 8496330
• 负责人: Georgia Hodges
• 金额: $ 25.91万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8496330
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Achievement; Address; Adult; Affect; Attitude; Biological; Cardiovascular system; Child; Computer software; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Discipline; Disease; Educational Materials; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Endocrine; Endocrine system; English Language; Ensure; Environment; Evaluation; Face; Feedback; Felis catus; Female; Gender; Health; Healthcare; International; Knowledge; Language Arts; Learning; Logic; Mathematics; Measurable; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Muscle; Musculoskeletal; Nervous system structure; Obesity; Outcome; Performance; Phase; Primary School Faculty; Problem Solving; Process; Respiratory System; Role; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Societies; Structure; Students; System; Technology; Testing; Thinking; Time; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Work; Youth; animation; base; body system; career; design; digital; elementary school; experience; fourth grade; gastrointestinal system; improved; instrument; literacy; mathematical sciences; novel; outreach; programs; public health relevance; respiratory; scaffold; skills; socioeconomics; teacher; third grade; three-dimensional modeling; virtual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the US to compete globally in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, dramatic improvements must be made in the problem-solving and higher order thinking skills of our youth, and more under-represented minority students must be encouraged to pursue careers in these fields. This project addresses those issues at the beginning of the student pipeline, elementary school, by testing the following hypothesis: Scientific literacy and development of higher order thinking skills will increase in third grade students taught basic biological concepts using immersive, inquiry-based digital learning environments that integrate mathematics and English & language arts learning objectives. This will be achieved by creating, field-testing, refining and evaluating interactive, inquiry-based digital learning environments in which students explore the basic structure, function and integration of the body's systems in health and disease. To engage the students in the learning process, a combination of 3D models, animations and embedded assessment items will be incorporated into these learning environments, in which the students will explore the organ systems of a healthy cat and then an obese cat with diabetes. In doing so, the students will be exposed not only to normal components of the body, but also will have the opportunity to see first-hand the deleterious effects of obesity and diabetes. As these environments are developed, our team will work with the teacher partners to create curricular materials that can be applied to the students' mathematics and English & language arts lessons. To determine whether this approach significantly improves student performance, self-efficacy and attitudes towards science, we will compare the results obtained with those from an equal number of students taught using traditional methods. During the first three years of this project when the learning environments are being created and field-tested, we will involve approximately 150 undergraduate science students at the University of Georgia who are participating in a well-established science outreach partnership program in which they work with elementary school teachers in schools having high proportions of under-represented minority students. Our ethos for developing these learning environments is as follows: problem solving is a skill, skills can be honed through practice, and the keys to solving problems and developing higher order thinking skills are scientific practices. Over this five-year project, 1,830 third grae students and 27 third grade teachers will participate, and the use of a logic model in the design of this project will ensure appropriate, measurable outcomes that will add significantly to the paucity of information currently available regarding the effects of technology on achievement in science, mathematics, and English & language arts in elementary schools.

描述（由申请人提供）：为了让美国在科学、技术、工程和数学领域参与全球竞争，必须大幅提高年轻人解决问题的能力和高阶思维能力，并且必须让更多的少数族裔学生接受教育。鼓励在这些领域从事职业。该项目通过测试以下假设，解决了小学阶段学生的这些问题：使用沉浸式、基于探究的数字学习环境教授基本生物概念的三年级学生的科学素养和高阶思维能力的发展将得到提高整合数学和英语和语言艺术学习目标。这将通过创建、现场测试、完善和评估交互式、基于探究的数字学习环境来实现，学生可以在其中探索身体系统在健康和疾病方面的基本结构、功能和整合。为了吸引学生参与学习过程，这些学习环境中将结合 3D 模型、动画和嵌入式评估项目，学生将探索健康猫的器官系统，然后探索患有糖尿病的肥胖猫的器官系统。在此过程中，学生不仅将接触到身体的正常组成部分，还将有机会亲眼目睹肥胖和糖尿病的有害影响。随着这些环境的开发，我们的团队将与教师合作伙伴合作创建可应用于学生数学、英语和语言艺术课程的课程材料。为了确定这种方法是否能显着提高学生的表现、自我效能和对科学的态度，我们将把获得的结果与使用传统方法教学的同等数量学生的结果进行比较。在该项目的前三年，即创建学习环境并进行现场测试时，我们将让乔治亚大学约 150 名理科本科生参与其中，他们将参与一项完善的科学外展合作伙伴计划，在该计划中，他们与少数族裔学生比例较高的学校的小学教师。我们开发这些学习环境的理念是：解决问题是一种技能，技能可以通过实践磨练，解决问题和发展高阶思维能力的关键是科学实践。在这个为期五年的项目中，1,830 名三年级学生和 27 名三年级教师将参与其中，在该项目的设计中使用逻辑模型将确保适当的、可衡量的结果，这将大大增加目前可用信息的匮乏技术对小学科学、数学、英语和语言艺术成绩的影响。