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John H. Keiser 《College Teaching》2013,61(3):107-109
The skill set associated with lifelong scientific literacy often includes the ability to decode the content and accuracy of scientific research as presented in the media. However, students often find decoding science in the media difficult, due to limited content knowledge and shifting definitions of accuracy. Faculty have developed a variety of approaches to increasing scientific literacy, but these approaches often miss out on valuable opportunities to teach core information literacy skills, including accessing original scientific research. We describe a scaffolded assignment using news reports that allows students enrolled in a science course for non-majors to learn about the nature of the scientific research literature, the connection between the popular press and the scientific literature, and the accuracy of popular media reporting of science while developing important information literacy skills. Our experience suggests that students develop information literacy skills associated with finding scientific articles using media reports, actively engage in trying to decode scientific articles, and are willing to thoughtfully assess the accuracy of science reporting in the news despite minimal content training. Moreover, students anecdotally report that the skills developed here are portable to decoding media reports from other academic fields of research, especially the social sciences. 相似文献
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Tracy L. Dietz 《Innovative Higher Education》2006,31(1):27-42
This article offers an evaluation of the implementation of the American Sociological Association's Integrating Data Analysis Project in a large introductory sociology course. This project was designed following an examination of the curricula of 13 disciplines that revealed that sociology failed to integrate empirical, quantitative literacy components throughout the undergraduate curriculum. Thus, efforts to introduce students to data analysis early and often were established as a best practice in the discipline. Results revealed that the students found the modules helped them understand the empirical nature of sociology. The students expressed an interest in participating in future research projects in sociology and/or other disciplines. They were not overly anxious about the quantitative literacy components of the course. Including on-line data analysis strategies using publicly available data and complimentary software represent cost and time-effective methods of introducing quantitative literacy into the social science classroom. Many social and behavioral sciences other than sociology have also discovered that their students lack a clear understanding of the relationship between empirical research and substantive topics within the discipline. Consequently, the lessons learned from the efforts of the ASA could be applied across many disciplines to form a more cohesive curriculum for many disciplines.The author holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Texas and a B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University. She is currently an Associate Professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Central Florida. Her teaching and research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, the sociology of social inequalities (aging, race and ethnicity, gender, and social class), medical sociology, and family violence. 相似文献
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学科核心素养的提出为课堂教学目标的制定提供指导和引领作用,教学目标能通过实际的课堂落实学生学科核心素养的发展,学生学科核心素养的发展需要落实到具体的课堂教学目标中。基于学科核心素养的教学目标结构在教学目标指向学生内外共同发展的基础上,主要表现为关键知识、关键能力、必备品格等三个方面,并以遵循核心素养的内在诉求,遵循学科教学的特性,基于学生学习的教学及回归育人的根本为逻辑依据。在进行学科核心素养的教学目标表述时需要基于课程标准,以促进学生学科核心素养的发展为根本指向;关注内容选取,聚焦学生学科核心素养的培养;凸显学生本位,以学生为教学目标的行为主体;关注目标评估,以促进学生学科核心素养教学目标的达成为主旨。 相似文献
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Kristin M. Klucevsek Allison B. Brungard 《International Journal of Science Education》2016,38(17):2573-2595
For undergraduate students to achieve science literacy, they must first develop information literacy skils. These skills align with Information Literacy Standards and include determining appropriate databases, distinguishing among resource types, and citing resources ethically. To effectively improve information literacy and science literacy, we must identify how students interact with authentic scientific texts. In this case study, we addressed this aim by embedding a science librarian into a science writing course, where students wrote a literature review on a research topic of their choice. Library instruction was further integrated through the use of an online guide and outside assistance. To evaluate the evolution of information literacy in our students and provide evidence of student practices, we used task-scaffolded writing assessments, a reflection, and surveys. We found that students improved their ability and confidence in finding research articles using discipline-specific databases as well as their ability to distinguish primary from secondary research articles. We also identified ways students improperly used and cited resources in their writing assignments. While our results reveal a better understanding of how students find and approach scientific research articles, additional research is needed to develop effective strategies to improve long-term information literacy in the sciences. 相似文献
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Action research assumes the active engagement of the stakeholders, such as the community, in the research, and a multiple‐level process of reflection in order to evaluate and monitor the actions taken. This makes action research a suitable methodology to increase the critical understanding of the participants. In this paper we describe the challenge of teaching action research within the context of an undergraduate community health psychology module. The module was designed using principles from transformative learning, critical pedagogy and action learning. The module took place over one semester; and 15 students (13 females, two males) took part in it. We discuss the background to the module development and the alignment of the learning objectives with the teaching and assessment methods, and reflect upon the students’ experiences in the module and the learning outcomes. We conclude by addressing the major challenges involved in teaching action research to increase critical understanding: the ability to engage in deep learning of undergraduate psychology students; our role and expectations as tutors on the course; and the current higher education system in which action science yet has to find a place. 相似文献
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人文社会科学大学生的自然科学素质教育是一项系统工程和创新工程。本文结合中国人民大学自然科学素质教育教改项目的研究和实施情况,分析了当代人文社会科学类大学生素质教育的基本特点,阐述了自然科学素质教育的内涵、内容和方法,探讨了教学体系、教学手段、教学方法和考核方式的创新,以及素质教育管理体系的架构和教学质量的评估体系。 相似文献
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"高分子材料进展"是高分子材料与工程专业的学科基础选修课程之一,是培养高分子科技人才整体知识结构的重要组成部分。结合杭州师范大学开设"高分子材料进展"课程的实际情况,从课程教学内容、教学方法和教学考核方式三个方面加以阐述,提出在师范类高校开展此类课程的教学实践,从而培养学生的学习热情、科研兴趣及国际视野,提高学生分析问题和解决问题的综合能力,使学生初步具有较高科学素养、良好科学创新思维和独立获取知识的能力,为高分子专业学生的职业规划提供指导,培养"学术型""复合型""应用型"高分子专业人才。 相似文献
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Contemporary undergraduates in the biological sciences have unprecedented access to scientific information. Although many of these students may be savvy technologists, studies from the field of library and information science consistently show that undergraduates often struggle to locate, evaluate, and use high-quality, reputable sources of information. This study demonstrates the efficacy and pedagogical value of a collaborative teaching approach designed to enhance information literacy competencies among undergraduate biology majors who must write a formal scientific research paper. We rely on the triangulation of assessment data to determine the effectiveness of a substantial research paper project completed by students enrolled in an upper-level biology course. After enhancing library-based instruction, adding an annotated bibliography requirement, and using multiple assessment techniques, we show fundamental improvements in students' library research abilities. Ultimately, these improvements make it possible for students to more independently and effectively complete this challenging science-based writing assignment. We document critical information literacy advances in several key areas: student source-type use, annotated bibliography enhancement, plagiarism reduction, as well as student and faculty/librarian satisfaction. 相似文献
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In Continuous Education curricula in Spain, the programs on sciences of the environment are aimed toward understandings of
sustainability. Teaching practice rarely leaves the classroom for outdoor field studies. At the same time, teaching practice
is generally focused on examples of how human activities are harmful for ecosystems. From a pedagogic point of view, it is
less effective to teach environmental science with negative examples such as catastrophe, tragedy, and crisis. Rather, teaching
environmental sciences and sustainable development might be focused on positive human-environment relationships, which is
both important for the further development of students and educators. Within rural settings, there are many such examples
of positive relationships that can be emphasized and integrated into the curriculum. In this article, we propose teaching
environmental sciences through immersion in rural cultural life. We discuss how fieldwork serves as a learning methodology.
When students are engaged through research with traditional cultural practices of environmental management, which is a part
of the real and traditional culture of a region, they better understand how positive pedagogy instead of pedagogy structured
around how not-to-do examples, can be used to stimulate the interactions between humans and the environment with their students.
In this way, cultural goods serve as teaching resources in science and environmental education. What we present is authentic
cases where adults involved in a course of Continuous Education explore ‘environmentally-friendly’ practices of traditional
agriculture in Asturias (north of Spain), employing methodologies of cultural studies. 相似文献
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Kirby Manià Linda Kathleen Mabin Jessica Liebenberg 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2018,48(3):389-410
This paper reflects on the teaching of science fiction texts to first-year engineering students at the University of the Witwatersrand as part of a Critical Thinking course that uses literature as a vehicle through which to develop competence in critical literacy and communication. This course aims to equip engineering students, as future intermediaries between science and society, with the ability to fulfil this role in both the contemporary global world and South Africa more specifically through the imaginative inhabitation of divergent subject positions afforded by literary texts. Science fiction encourages students to engage imaginatively with various societal ideas, constructs and possibilities. One of the principles of the course is that reading facilitates empathic responses, challenging readers to inhabit unfamiliar subject positions. In this way, the teaching of science fiction aims to develop self-reflective and critical learning practices, wherein engineering students grapple with the ethical ramifications of extrapolated known science in a South African context. 相似文献
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问题解决能力是科学素养的重要组成部分。提高学生的问题解决能力是科学教育的重要任务 ,也是理科教学实践中长期面临的难题。本文通过“电化学”化学问题解决对比教学实验和访谈的方法 ,研究证实可以通过心理模拟将专家和优秀学生的化学问题解决经验外显为“原型”,并经过原型定向、原型操作、原型内化的教学过程使大量中等学生的相应的问题解决能力有显著性提高 ,说明问题解决过程中原型经验的重要作用。同时本文辩证地分析了原型的利与弊 ,指出原型定向阶段应该提倡师生共同建构 ,原型不应该被固定化和僵化。 相似文献
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Most scientific endeavors require science process skills such as data interpretation, problem solving, experimental design, scientific writing, oral communication, collaborative work, and critical analysis of primary literature. These are the fundamental skills upon which the conceptual framework of scientific expertise is built. Unfortunately, most college science departments lack a formalized curriculum for teaching undergraduates science process skills. However, evidence strongly suggests that explicitly teaching undergraduates skills early in their education may enhance their understanding of science content. Our research reveals that faculty overwhelming support teaching undergraduates science process skills but typically do not spend enough time teaching skills due to the perceived need to cover content. To encourage faculty to address this issue, we provide our pedagogical philosophies, methods, and materials for teaching science process skills to freshman pursuing life science majors. We build upon previous work, showing student learning gains in both reading primary literature and scientific writing, and share student perspectives about a course where teaching the process of science, not content, was the focus. We recommend a wider implementation of courses that teach undergraduates science process skills early in their studies with the goals of improving student success and retention in the sciences and enhancing general science literacy. 相似文献
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英国医学院校社会和行为学科教育的现状和未来 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
在英国,大多数医学院校均为医学生开设了社会和行为科学课程,但是,怎样限定核心内容,以及怎样同预期的学习成果联系起来,仍然是一个有待解决的问题。本文根据问卷调查和研讨会讨论,论述了英国医学院校社会和行为学科教育的现状、问题和未来方向,例如医学课程中社会和行为科学的程度和范围、内容、同一性等。 相似文献
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周孟松黄智莲 《宁波大学学报(教育科学版)》2017,(3):115-117
科学课程的核心理念之一是从生活走向科学,从科学走向生活和社会。结合微课,笔者从创设生活化情境,导入新课程;增添生活化内容,丰富教材;选取生活化素材,进行科学探究;编设生活化作业,提高学习效率几方面进行尝试。生活化教学设计应用在科学微课教学模式的目标不仅是提高学生学习效率,而且使学生能利用所学科学知识分析、推理、解决生活实际问题的能力,切实提高学生的科学素养。 相似文献
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Alan T. Rogerson 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(1):103-104
Previous research has highlighted challenges associated with embracing an inquiry approach to science teaching for primary teachers, often associating these challenges with insecurity linked to the lack of content knowledge. We argue that in order to understand the extent to which primary student teachers are able to embrace science teaching informed by scientific literacy for all, it is important to take into account various, sometimes competing, science teacher and primary teacher Discourses. The aim of this paper is to explore how such Discourses are constituted in the context of learning to teach during a 1-year university-based Post Graduate Certificate of Education course. The empirical data consist of semi-structured interviews with 11 student teachers. The analysis identifies 5 teacher Discourses and we argue that these can help us to better understand some of the tensions involved in becoming a primary teacher with a responsibility for teaching science: for example, in terms of the interplay between the student teachers' own educational biographies and institutionally sanctioned Discourses. One conclusion is that student teachers' willingness and ability to embrace a Discourse of science education, informed by the aim of scientific literacy for all, may be every bit as constrained by their experience of learning science through ‘traditional schooling’ as it is by their confidence with respect to their own subject knowledge. The 5 Discourses, with their complex interrelations, raise questions about which identity positions are available to students in the intersections of the Discourses and which identity positions teacher educators may seek to make available for their students. 相似文献
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Jane Rand 《Teaching in Higher Education》2016,21(7):773-789
The experience(s) of undergraduate research students in the social sciences is under-represented in the literature in comparison to the natural sciences or science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The strength of STEM undergraduate research learning environments is understood to be related to an apprenticeship-mode of learning supported by more experienced (post-graduate) peers, often through ongoing research projects. Studies of undergraduate research reveal that this is not typical in the social sciences, and students report facing specific challenges to the development of their identities as researchers that include fear, intellectual confusion and emotional unsettlement. This paper examines how a social science learning environment, designed as a research study itself, fostered beginning researchers communities of practice, realised a distinct mode of apprenticing based on peers’ similarly peripheral community membership, and enabled students to reframe emotional unsettlement. It argues that, effectively mediated, talk can powerfully improve undergraduate social science research students’ experiences. 相似文献
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邓清华 《涪陵师范学院学报》2009,25(6)
在高中文理分科的背景下,高中理科政治课在教学对象、教学内容、实际教学目标与要求上都有着较大的特殊性.因此,加强教学方法研究增强教学的针对性,在高中理科政治课教学中有着重要的意义.本文通过对高中理科政治课教学方法运用中存在的问题及其原因分析,认为在高中理科政治课教学中,应以政治课教学基本方法为依托,在教学中注重案例分析,注意与理科知识的结合,注意情景创设与人格示范,重实效轻应试,以此提高教育教学实效. 相似文献
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高校的人文社会科学教育教学及研究工作在繁荣社会科学、提升人文素质方面负有义不容辞的重任,高校人文社会科学教师自身人文素质如何、教学水平高低,对于提高大学生的综合素质至关重要.对高校人文社会科学教师的教学水平进行科学评估,有着十分重要的意义,在评估过程中应把握好相应的几个原则性问题. 相似文献