Learning as Problem Solving

学习解决问题

• 批准号: 9620091
• 负责人: Paul Christiano
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-02-01 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9620091&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Learning; Problem; Solving

Carnegie-Mellon University has been selected as one of ten recipients of the National Science Foundation's Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education. The university has made cross-disciplinary problem-solving a core activity in the undergraduate curriculum and has created many mechanisms that support institution-wide implementation. A Center for Teaching Excellence and a Center for Innovation in Learning encourage and support faculty efforts to use problem solving as a vehicle for learning. In addition to course-based problem solving, an increasing number of students pursue independent research throughout their undergraduate careers through formal courses, paid work-study, senior honors programs, internships, and independent study. The university provides significant support for undergraduate research projects and organizes a student research symposium at which 200 student projects were recently presented. The university's efforts to integrate research and education were designed with specific outcomes in mind: increasing student retention in science and engineering programs; increasing the proportion of students engaged in independent research; increasing student satisfaction with their science and engineering education; and enhancing the capabilities of graduates in the workplace. The university has documented significant success in achieving these goals. The university is being awarded $500,000 with the goal of expanding, documenting, and disseminating its exemplary practices over the coming three years. Plans for the use of the award funds include: establishing a freshman seminar that introduces students to the culture of interdisciplinary problem solving; expanding support for the undergraduate research program; engaging graduate students as research mentors for undergraduates; developing new courses that use interdisciplinary problem solving; developing outcome-based assessment tools for evaluating new courses using problem solving as a core activity; developing and documenting an exportable model for teaching through interdisciplinary problem solving; and disseminating the model through workshops, conferences, a handbook, and resources made available through the World Wide Web.

卡内基梅隆大学被选为美国国家科学基金会研究与教育一体化认可奖的十个获得者之一。 该大学将跨学科问题解决作为本科课程的核心活动，并创建了许多支持全校实施的机制。 卓越教学中心和学习创新中心鼓励和支持教师努力将解决问题作为学习的工具。 除了基于课程的问题解决之外，越来越多的学生在整个本科生涯中通过正规课程、带薪勤工俭学、高级荣誉课程、实习和独立学习来追求独立研究。 该大学为本科生研究项目提供大力支持，并组织了一次学生研究研讨会，最近在会上展示了 200 个学生项目。 该大学整合研究和教育的努力是根据具体成果而设计的：提高科学和工程课程的学生保留率；增加学生从事独立研究的比例；提高学生对科学和工程教育的满意度；并提高毕业生在工作场所的能力。 该大学在实现这些目标方面取得了巨大成功。 该大学将获得 50 万美元的资助，目标是在未来三年内扩大、记录和传播其模范实践。 奖励资金的使用计划包括： 建立新生研讨会，向学生介绍跨学科解决问题的文化；扩大对本科生研究计划的支持；让研究生担任本科生的研究导师；开发利用跨学科问题解决的新课程；开发基于结果的评估工具，以解决问题为核心活动来评估新课程；通过解决跨学科问题开发并记录可输出的教学模型；通过研讨会、会议、手册和万维网提供的资源传播该模型。