College Student Meaning Making and Interest Maintenance During COVID-19: From Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) to Science Learning Being Off-Campus and Online
College Student Meaning Making and Interest Maintenance During COVID-19: From Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) to Science Learning Being Off-Campus and Online
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DOI：
10.3389/feduc.2020.590738
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发表时间：
2020-12-08
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Graham, Mark J.
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作者：
Wang, Cong;Bauer, Melanie;Graham, Mark J.
为应对COVID-19疫情，全国高等教育格局迅速发生巨大变化，于2020年春季学期转向“在线”。虽然教师和学生都感到痛苦，但它提供了一个独特的机会来探索学生如何应对这种意想不到的和具有挑战性的学习情况。在四门本科STEM课程中，纳入了基于课程的本科研究经验（CURES）-通常侧重于发现学习和实验室研究-我们正在进行一项现有的研究，以跟踪学生在2020年春季学期的五个时间点的兴趣发展。通过这项正在进行的研究，我们能够调查学生如何保持从事他们的大学科学课程时，面对意想不到的挑战和障碍，他们的学习。从41名学生在这些CURE课程的纵向调查数据表明，学生的情境兴趣显着下降时，他们的CURE课程意外地从动手，发现为基础的，基于实验室的指令，以在线教学。虽然我们观察到，在CURE课程完全在线后，学生的兴趣普遍大幅下降，但学生的下降率各不相同。能够在学习活动与个人或职业目标之间建立有意义的联系的学生更有可能对课程保持更高的兴趣。实践的影响进行了讨论。
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 the national landscape of higher education changed quickly and dramatically to move "online" in the Spring semester of 2020. While distressing to both faculty and students, it presents a unique opportunity to explore how students responded to this unexpected and challenging learning situation. In four undergraduate STEM courses that incorporated course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs)-which are often focused on discovery learning and laboratory research-we had an existing study in progress to track students' interest development at five time points over the Spring 2020 semester. Via this ongoing study we were able to investigate how students stay engaged in their college science courses when facing unexpected challenges and obstacles to their learning. Longitudinal survey data from 41 students in these CURE courses demonstrated that students' situational interest dropped significantly when their CURE courses unexpectedly shifted from hands-on, discovery-based, and laboratory-based instruction to online instruction. Although we observed a dramatic decline in student interest in general after the CURE courses moved fully online, the decline rates varied across students. Students who were able to make meaningful connections between the learning activities and their personal or career goals were more likely to maintain a higher level of interest in the course. Implications for practice are discussed.