Prof. Carl Wieman
Important experience / 重要經歷
Cheriton Family Professor and professor of Physics and of education, Stanford University
史丹福大學物理學教授和教育學院教授
Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
美國白宮科學技術政策辦公室 (科學) 副主任
Yidan Prize (2020)
一丹獎 (2020)
Author of ‘Improving How Universities Teach Science’ (2017)
《改善大學科學教育》 作者
Carnegie US University Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2003)
卡耐基基金會美國大學教授年獎 (2003)
Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, Nobel Foundation (2001)
諾貝爾物理學獎(2001)
Research Areas / 研究範疇
Brain and Learning Sciences, Higher Education, Science Education, Teachers and Teaching
腦與學習科學、高等教育、科學教育、教師及教學
Introduction / 簡介
A ‘scientific approach to teaching science’
Wieman’s passion for education research grew out of his work in physics, as he sought to understand how his own students learned and developed into scientists. “For many years, I had two parallel research programs,” said Wieman. “One was in atomic physics, blasting atoms with lasers to see how they’d behave. The other was studying how people learn to think about physics and finding better ways to teach them.”
Students learn more effectively, Wieman found, when they practice and receive feedback on making particular decisions using the knowledge and skills of their respective disciplines. “I’ve come to see education fundamentally as a way for people to learn to make better decisions,” he said.
Advocating for “a scientific approach to teaching science,” he urges STEM professors to apply the same principles in teaching that they use in their research. Instead of just lecturing “because it has always been done this way,” he said, instructors should be guided by research demonstrating more effective methods, applying these principles and carefully measuring the results to find ways to improve, just as they do in their science.
(Extracted from: https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-professor-awarded-4-million-prize-education-research)
科學教育的科學方法
Wieman教授自物理研究工作中，發展出對教育研究的熱情，源自於他想去了解他的學生如何學習，並成為科學家。「在這多年期間，我都在持續進行兩條並行的研究計畫。」他說：「其一是原子物理，利用激光進行原子爆炸，看看原子有怎樣的行為；另一個則是研究人們是怎樣學習及思考物理，並尋找更好的方法去教他們。」
Wieman教授發現，學生在利用他們學科中的知識及技巧去實習及做決定，並從中獲得回饋時，會使他們的學習變得更有效。他說：「我開始把教育的本意視為人們學習去做更好決定的一個方式。」
Wieman教授倡導科學教育的科學方法，他鼓勵科學領域的教授利用跟他們做研究時同樣的原理去面對教學。除去已一貫是如此的授課方式，Wieman教授建議老師們可參考有成效的研究，把其中的一些原理應用在教學中，並細心的去觀察結果，找出方法去改進，就有如他們在進行他們的科學研究一樣。
(節錄並翻譯自：https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-professor-awarded-4-million-prize-education-research)
More about the speaker / 更多關於講者
Carl Wieman – Stanford University
https://profiles.stanford.edu/carl-wieman
Carl Wieman – The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/wieman/lecture/
Carl Wieman – Yidan Prize
https://yidanprize.org/zh-hant/global-community/laureates/professor-carl-wieman/