核心概念视域下的美国本科STEM课程设计——以密歇根州立大学为例

American Undergraduate STEM Course Design Under Core Concepts

STEM教育是培养大学生跨学科素养和复杂问题解决能力的有效路径。基于核心概念的课程设计是美国本科STEM教育的重要特征。本研究结合密歇根州立大学的案例,回答本科理工科课程改革为何要基于核心概念、如何确定核心概念、如何基于核心概念设计课程内容结构、如何构建基于核心概念的教学与评价等关键问题。结合国际经验和本土实际情况,我国本科理工科教育教学需要将聚焦迁移能力、跨学科素养的培养,加强核心概念对课程整合的引领,重视基于证据的教学与评价作为改革的方向。

STEM education has become an effective way to cultivate college students’ interdisciplinary literacy and complex problem-solving ability.Course design based on core concepts is an important feature of undergraduate STEM education in the United States.With the case study of Michigan State University,this paper solves a series of problems including why the reform of undergraduate curriculum should be based on core concepts,how to identify core concepts,how to design content structures based on core concepts,and how to build a teaching and evaluation mechanism based on core concepts.It is our opinion that the educational and teaching reform for China’s science undergraduates should be launched on the path of focusing on the training of transfer of learning,cultivating interdisciplinary literacy,playing the guiding role of core concepts to curriculum integration,and attaching importance to evidence-based teaching and evaluation system.