A model-based instructional approach in a socio-ecological course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE)

IF 2.7 3区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY
Ecosphere Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI:10.1002/ecs2.70007
Amanda E. Sorensen, Ashley Alred, Joseph J. Fontaine, Jenny M. Dauer
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Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are an instructional strategy to help students learn the content and process of science by engaging students in authentic science research. The ESA-endorsed 4-Dimensional Ecology Education framework emphasizes engaging students in authentic ecology scientific practices, and uniquely foregrounds human dimensions as a core tenant of ecological literacy. Model-based CURE instruction may help ecology instructors by giving students a scaffold to better orient their line of inquiry and develop more accurate conceptions of the broader socio-ecological system through the integration of the CURE experimental data to known concepts within the system. We explored how student model accuracy changes throughout the course, what modeling practices students engaged in during collaborative modeling, and how students used CURE data along with social and ecological sciences in their models. We found that students created more accurate models as the course progressed, and all student groups exhibited expert-like modeling practices during the summative collaborative modeling process. Importantly, we also found that students were able to integrate experimental data they generated through the CURE within their broader understanding of the study system. A major benefit of model-based CUREs is to cultivate scientific thinking by helping students connect how individual pieces of research inform larger phenomenon.

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以社会生态课程为基础的本科生研究经历(CURE)中基于模型的教学方法
基于课程的本科生研究经历(CURE)是一种教学策略,通过让学生参与真实的科学研究,帮助学生学习科学的内容和过程。欧空局认可的四维生态教育框架强调让学生参与真实的生态科学实践,并独特地将人文维度作为生态素养的核心要素。基于模型的 CURE 教学可帮助生态学教师为学生提供一个支架,通过将 CURE 实验数据与系统中的已知概念相结合,更好地确定探究方向,并对更广泛的社会生态系统形成更准确的概念。我们探索了学生在整个课程中模型准确性的变化情况、学生在协作建模过程中的建模实践以及学生在模型中如何使用 CURE 数据以及社会和生态科学。我们发现,随着课程的进行,学生们创建的模型更加准确,在总结性协作建模过程中,所有学生小组都表现出了专家级的建模实践。重要的是,我们还发现学生能够将他们通过 CURE 生成的实验数据与他们对研究系统的更广泛理解结合起来。以模型为基础的 CURE 的一个主要好处是,通过帮助学生将单个研究成果与更大的现象联系起来,培养他们的科学思维。
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来源期刊
Ecosphere
Ecosphere ECOLOGY-
CiteScore
4.70
自引率
3.70%
发文量
378
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: The scope of Ecosphere is as broad as the science of ecology itself. The journal welcomes submissions from all sub-disciplines of ecological science, as well as interdisciplinary studies relating to ecology. The journal''s goal is to provide a rapid-publication, online-only, open-access alternative to ESA''s other journals, while maintaining the rigorous standards of peer review for which ESA publications are renowned.
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