トランジション. 高校の2つの柱は,大学の科学を支えている
Philip M Sadler1, Robert H Tai
1Department of Science Education, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. psadler@cfa.harvard.edu
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 28, 2007
まとめ
学生の専攻以外の高校の理科コースは,大学の理科の成績を改善しません. しかし,強い高校数学スキルは,入門の大学科学コースでのより良い成績と関連しています.
科学分野:
- STEM教育についてです.
- 高等教育の教育学
背景:
- 大学の入門科目 (生物学,化学,物理学) の学生の成功は,STEMパイプラインの進歩にとって極めて重要です.
- 高校の授業,特に学科外の科学が,大学への準備を予測する上で果たす役割は議論されている.
研究 の 目的:
- 高校の科学科目の選択と,基礎的な大学の科学科目の学生の成績との関連を調査する.
- 高校数学科目の授業が大学入学科学の成績に影響するかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- 学生の学歴を分析し,特定の科学科目における高校コースの修了率と大学のGPAを相関させた.
- 混同変数を制御し,高校数学・理科コースの影響を隔離するための統計モデリング.
主要な成果:
- 規律外の高校の理科コースと,大学での生物学,化学,または物理学の成績の改善との間に有意な関連性は見つかりませんでした.
- 高校数学コースの厳しさと完成度,大学科学入門科のより良い成績との間に正の相関が観察されました.
結論:
- 高校の科学のカリキュラムの選択は,学生の意図した専攻の外にある場合,大学科学の成功のために重要な学術上の利点を提供しないかもしれません.
- 高校の力強い数学教育に重点を置くことは,入門の大学レベルの科学コースへの学生の準備において,より重要な要因であるように思われる.
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