气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Role-play simulations as an aid to achieve complex learning outcomes in hydrological science

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DOI	10.5194/hess-23-2369-2019
	Role-play simulations as an aid to achieve complex learning outcomes in hydrological science
	Bring A.; Lyon S.W.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1027-5606
起始页码	2369
结束页码	2378
卷号	23 期号:5
英文摘要	Students in hydrology are expected to become proficient in a set of quantitative skills while also acquiring the ability to apply their problem-solving abilities in real-life situations. To achieve both these types of learning outcomes, there is broad evidence that activity-based learning is beneficial. In this paper, we argue that role-play simulations in particular are useful for achieving complex learning outcomes, i.e., making students able to coordinate and integrate various analytical skills in complicated settings. We evaluated the effects of an integrated water resources management (IWRM) negotiation simulation next to more traditional teaching methods intended to foster quantitative understanding. Results showed that despite similar student-reported achievement of both complex and quantitative intended learning outcomes, the students favored the negotiation simulation over the traditional method. This implies that role-play simulations can motivate and actively engage a classroom, thereby creating a space for potential deeper learning and longer retention of knowledge. While our findings support the utility of simulations to teach complex learning outcomes and indicate no shortcoming in achieving such outcomes next to traditional methods aimed at quantitative learning outcomes, simulations are still not widely used to foster activity-based learning in the classroom. We thus conclude by presenting three particularly challenging areas of role-play simulations as learning tools that serve as potential barriers to their implementation and suggest ways to overcome such roadblocks. © Author(s) 2019.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Problem solving; Water resources; Activity-based learning; Analytical skills; Integrated Water Resources Management; Intended learning outcomes; Learning outcome; Potential barriers; Problem-solving abilities; Teaching methods; Students; hydrology; knowledge; learning; simulation; student; teaching
来源期刊	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/159681
作者单位	Bring, A., Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden; Lyon, S.W., Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden, Nature Conservancy, New Jersey Chapter, Delmont, NJ 08314, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bring A.,Lyon S.W.. Role-play simulations as an aid to achieve complex learning outcomes in hydrological science[J],2019,23(5).
APA	Bring A.,&Lyon S.W..(2019).Role-play simulations as an aid to achieve complex learning outcomes in hydrological science.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,23(5).
MLA	Bring A.,et al."Role-play simulations as an aid to achieve complex learning outcomes in hydrological science".Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 23.5(2019).