Young children's near and far transfer of the basic theory of natural selection: An analogical storybook intervention          下载免费PDF全文

Natalie Emmons  Kristin Lees  Deborah Kelemen 《科学教学研究杂志》2018,55(3):321-347

Misconceptions about adaptation by natural selection are widespread among adults and likely stem, in part, from cognitive biases and intuitive theories observable in early childhood. Current educational guidelines that recommend delaying comprehensive instruction on the topic of adaptation until adolescence, therefore, raise concerns because children's scientifically inaccurate theories about species may be left unchallenged for many years, allowing them to entrench and become difficult to overcome. In consequence, this investigation sought to explore whether classrooms of kindergartners and second graders could acquire a basic but comprehensive understanding of adaptation from an intervention constructed around two picture storybooks that mechanistically explain natural selection. Learning was assessed in near and far transfer contexts both immediately and a month later. Kindergartners and second graders demonstrated substantial learning of biological information; however, second graders showed pronounced abilities to near and far generalize, immediately and over time. Results suggest that causally cohesive interventions with an emphasis on mechanistic explanation facilitate children's classroom learning of complex counterintuitive scientific ideas.  相似文献   

国际科学课程教学方法研究的新世纪图景          下载免费PDF全文

——基于-年Web  of  Science数据库的统计和知识图谱分析 《宁波大学学报(教育科学版)》2018,(2):116-121

科学课程对于学生理解科学的本质、提高公民科学素养具有重要作用。选取Web of Science数据库2000-2016年4127篇有关科学课程教学方法的论文,运用文献计量学和科学知识图谱的方法,对国际科学课程教学法的研究现状进行统计与可视化分析。研究表明,新世纪以来,科学课程教学方法研究的热点主要围绕概念教学,研究前沿主要围绕科学论证、有意义评价以及学生合作。美国在科学课程研究方面具有绝对的强势地位,而中国尚未形成足够的国际学术影响力。  相似文献   

An exploration of the interactions among the components of an experienced elementary science teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge     

Y. Soysal 《Educational studies》2018,44(1):1-25

This study had two purposes: to explore the components of the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of an experienced elementary science teacher and to reveal the presumed interactions among these components. A naturalistic inquiry was conducted as a single case study in which in-depth qualitative data were gathered through semi-structured interview questions. After the theory-based and data-driven analysis of the qualitative data, the verbal communication was quantitated into numerical data for the enumerative analysis. The results revealed that the teacher’s knowledge of students’ understanding and difficulties, knowledge of the elementary science curriculum and knowledge of instructional strategies and representations were found to be mostly intersected PCK components, whereas orientations towards teaching science and knowledge of assessment in science had limited connections to the other components. Further discussions and context-based suggestions are given regarding professional development programmes.  相似文献   

Job-related requirements and competences of educational science graduates     

Julia-Carolin Brachem  Edith M.P. Braun 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2018,42(2):166-176

All over the world, universities have to cope with the mission to promote the employability of their graduates, implying that competences should be trained which are relevant for the professional experience. In this context, it is of special interest where graduates work and what they are doing at work. In this study we focus on educational science graduates (N = 1565) and compare them to graduates of other study programmes (N = 10,224). Using data of the German DZHW graduate panel 2005 (N = 11,789), we address the questions (1) in which fields graduates of educational science work, (2) whether a theoretical-based four-dimensional internal structure of graduates’ job-related requirements and competences can be confirmed, (3) what kind of self-rated requirements educational science graduates experience at work, and (4) which self-rated levels of competences they possess, compared to other graduates. The analyses show that most graduates of educational science find an appropriate job in a clearly educational setting and that generic competences (systematic, social, and personal competences) are rated as more important than knowledge processing.  相似文献   

Research Study on an Applied Interdisciplinary Product Development Course for College Sophomores          下载免费PDF全文

Margaret D. Condrasky  Alexa Weeks McCay  Duncan Darby  Julia L. Sharp  Sarah F. Griffin 《Journal of Food Science Education》2018,17(2):66-71

This research compares the industry readiness, product development skill level, and overall knowledge gains of students taking an undergraduate research course (treatment) to those who did not (control). This 2‐semester Applied Interdisciplinary Product Development (AIPD) course for sophomores brought together interdisciplinary teams of food science, nutrition, and packaging science students in a hands‐on setting to create healthy food products for children, complete with retail packaging. A Subject Knowledge Assessment (SKA) was used to evaluate the mean percent difference value (MPDV) of food science, nutrition, packaging science, and general product development knowledge gained through the course. SKA results indicated that the MPDV were significantly different (α = 0.05) between the treatment and comparison groups in the overall score and in every subject area score except packaging science. Data from an Exit Questionnaire (EQ) was used for evaluation of attitudes pertaining to product development knowledge and skills, department engagement, and pedagogy. EQ results indicated that mean scores between the treatment and comparison groups were significantly different (α = 0.05) in 7 of the 9 statements on product development knowledge and skills, both statements pertaining to pedagogy, and the statement pertaining to department engagement. Overall, the research project was considered a successful intervention for educating sophomores at the University. Overall, the research project was considered a successful intervention for educating sophomores in the Food, Nutrition and Packaging Science department at Clemson University. The student‐lead teams were held to a greater degree of accountability for their success in terms of education gleaned and value of experience gained as metric for the University and other IFT Accredited programs.  相似文献   

复杂性科学视域下学校评价结果解释研究的方法论探析          下载免费PDF全文

王薇 《上海教育评估研究》2018,7(1):13-18

复杂性科学为研究、思考学校评价结果解释研究提供了方法论支持。 运用复杂性科学的整体原理、有序原理、动态原理和反馈原理,学校评价结果解释研究在借鉴并改造系统论、组织生命周期理论、信息论、耗散结构论和协同论等理论的思想框架基础上,将实证化方式和人文化方式有机结合,实现整体思维、综合思维、关系思维、过程思维和变动思维等思维方式的根本性转变。  相似文献   

“A tie is a tie? Gender and network positioning in life science inventor collaboration”     

Kjersten Bunker Whittington 《Research Policy》2018,47(2):511-526

Collaborative relationships are an important anchor of innovative activity, and rates of collaboration in science are on the rise. This research addresses differences in men’s and women’s collaborative positioning and collaborator characteristics in science, and whether network influences on scientists’ future productivity may be contingent on gender. Utilizing co-inventor network relations that span thirty years of global life science patenting across sectors, geographic locations, and technological background, I present trends of men’s and women’s involvement in patenting and their collaborative characteristics across time. Amidst some network similarities, women are less likely to connect otherwise unconnected inventors (brokerage) and have greater status-asymmetries between themselves and their co-inventors. In multivariate models that include past and future activity, I find that some network benefits are contingent on gender. Men receive greater returns from network positioning for brokerage ties, and when collaborating with men. Women benefit from collaborating with women, and are more likely to collaborate with women, but both men and women collaborate with mostly men. I discuss the implications of these results for innovative growth, as well as for policies that support men’s and women’s career development.  相似文献   

Institutional shaping of research priorities: A case study on avian influenza     

Matthew L. Wallace  Ismael Ràfols 《Research Policy》2018,47(10):1975-1989

Since outbreaks in 2003, avian influenza has received a considerable amount of funding and become a controversial science policy issue in various respects. Like in many other global and multidisciplinary societal problems fraught with high levels of uncertainty, a variety of perspectives have emerged over how to “tackle” avian influenza and public voices have expressed concern over how research funds are being allocated. In this article, we document if and how research agendas are being informed by public policy debates. We use qualitative and quantitative approaches to examine the relations between expectations of outcomes of public science and the existing research landscape. Interviews with a cross-section of stakeholders reveal a wide range of perspectives and values associated with the nature and objectives of existing research avenues. We find that the landscape of public avian influenza research is not directly driven by expectations of societal outcomes. Instead, it is shaped by three institutional drivers: pharmaceutical industry priorities, publishing and public research funding pressures, and the mandates of science-based policy or public health organizations. These insights suggest that, in research prioritization, funding agencies should embrace a broad perspective of research governance that explicitly considers underlying institutional drivers. Deliberative approaches in public priority setting might help to make agendas more plural and diverse and thus more responsive to the contested and uncertain nature of avian influenza research.  相似文献   

Crozier’s penguin: An object history of maritime and museum science     

Diarmid A. Finnegan 《Endeavour》2018,42(1):42-47

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高强度的环境规制能够促进国内大气科技创新吗？——以〖SO〗_2排放控制技术为例          下载免费PDF全文

林玲  赵子健  曹聪丽 《科研管理》2018,39(12):45-52

从理论上来说,波特弱假说涉及双重外部性问题,即大气污染的负外部性和技术创新的正外部性,环境规制和知识产权保护合力才能予以切实彻底解决,而后者并没有得到普遍重视。本文认为,波特弱假说需要考虑知识产权保护强度。以SO_2排放控制技术为例,本文运采用2000-2013年省际省份面板数据,结合固定效应模型进行实证研究检验了知识产权保护对于波特弱假说的作用。结果发现,当知识产权保护较弱时,环境规制对大气科技创新具有呈现负向影响;。只有当知识产权保护较强时力度超过一定阈值时,环境规制才会对大气科技创新产生正向影响,波特弱假说成立。此外,环境规制和知识产权保护影响大气科技创新的交叉效应主要出现在企业,而非科研院所和个人,创新主体存在明显的差异性。  相似文献