PORTAAL: A Classroom Observation Tool Assessing Evidence-Based Teaching Practices for Active Learning in Large Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Classes
PORTAAL: A Classroom Observation Tool Assessing Evidence-Based Teaching Practices for Active Learning in Large Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Classes
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DOI：
10.1187/cbe.14-06-0095
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发表时间：
2015-06-01
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3.7
通讯作者：
Wenderoth, Mary Pat
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作者：
Eddy, Sarah L.;Converse, Mercedes;Wenderoth, Mary Pat
有大量证据表明，主动学习比完全被动的演讲效果更好。尽管有这些证据，这些循证教学实践的采用率仍然很低。在本文中，我们提供了一种帮助教师实施主动学习的工具。该工具确定了21个容易实现的元素，这些元素已被证明可以提高学生在成就、逻辑发展或其他与大学年龄学生相关的学习目标方面的结果。因此，这一工具既澄清了教师在课堂环境中实施主动学习的最佳实践的研究支持要素，也衡量了教师与这些实践的一致性。我们描述了我们如何回顾以学科为基础的教育研究文献，以确定成人学习者在课堂上主动学习的最佳实践，并利用这些结果开发出一种观察工具(实际观察问卷以评估主动学习，或PORTAAL)，以记录教师将这些实践纳入课堂的程度。然后，我们使用PORTAAL来探索25名生物入门教师的课堂实践，他们采用了某种形式的主动学习。总体而言，PORTAAL记录了课堂与研究支持的积极学习最佳实践的协调程度，并向教师提供具体的反馈和指导，使他们能够确定哪些方面做得很好，哪些方面可以改进。
There is extensive evidence that active learning works better than a completely passive lecture. Despite this evidence, adoption of these evidence-based teaching practices remains low. In this paper, we offer one tool to help faculty members implement active learning. This tool identifies 21 readily implemented elements that have been shown to increase student outcomes related to achievement, logic development, or other relevant learning goals with college-age students. Thus, this tool both clarifies the research-supported elements of best practices for instructor implementation of active learning in the classroom setting and measures instructors' alignment with these practices. We describe how we reviewed the discipline-based education research literature to identify best practices in active learning for adult learners in the classroom and used these results to develop an observation tool (Practical Observation Rubric To Assess Active Learning, or PORTAAL) that documents the extent to which instructors incorporate these practices into their classrooms. We then use PORTAAL to explore the classroom practices of 25 introductory biology instructors who employ some form of active learning. Overall, PORTAAL documents how well aligned classrooms are with research-supported best practices for active learning and provides specific feedback and guidance to instructors to allow them to identify what they do well and what could be improved.