Programs, Pedagogy, and Process: Institution-Wide Improvement of Undergraduate Education at The Colorado School of Mines

项目、教学法和流程：科罗拉多矿业学院本科教育的全机构改进

• 批准号: 9653726
• 负责人: John Trefny
• 金额: $ 17.36万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 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: 1997-03-01 至 2000-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9653726&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Programs; Pedagogy; Process; Institution; Wide

At the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) we are about to enter the fourth year of a comprehensive curriculum improvement process undertaken in response to concerns about systemic problems in engineering education. To date we have developed a mission statement and a set of attributes which we wish all graduates of the School to achieve including technical depth and breadth, communication skills, international awareness, flexibility, and ethics. We have also studied our current curriculum and the curricula at other leading engineering schools and have developed a tentative framework for a new curriculum in which we emphasize programs, pedagogy, and process. In the next few years we plan to build on existing excellent programs at CSM to develop a design-across-the curriculum program, a sequence of Systems courses, and an enhanced and thoroughly integrated humanities and social sciences component. In addition, we will build on our long teaching history and our Office of Teaching Effectiveness to explore the best pedagogies for these new programs and to prepare faculty for teaching in them. Finally, we will incorporate a refined assessment/continuous improvement program into our new curriculum. This program will grow out of our already mature and well-recognized state-mandated portfolio assessment program. As we develop, pilot, and fully implement a unique undergraduate engineering curriculum, our tangible products will include new texts, laboratory experiments, and hard copy and multimedia course materials. More importantly, we will produce students who are better prepared for science and engineering careers and faculty who are better prepared to teach them. Over the long-term, this project will help continue our transformation from an institution focused on teaching to one focused on learning. Our project can serve as benchmark for both the products and the process of curricular revision elsewhere.

在科罗拉多矿业学院 (CSM)，我们即将进入全面课程改进流程的第四个年头，该流程旨在回应对工程教育系统性问题的担忧。 迄今为止，我们已经制定了一份使命宣言和一系列属性，我们希望学院的所有毕业生都能实现这些属性，包括技术深度和广度、沟通技巧、国际意识、灵活性和道德。 我们还研究了我们当前的课程和其他领先工程学院的课程，并为新课程开发了一个暂定框架，在该框架中我们强调项目、教学法和过程。 在接下来的几年里，我们计划在 CSM 现有的优秀项目的基础上开发跨课程设计项目、一系列系统课程以及增强且彻底整合的人文和社会科学部分。 此外，我们将立足于我们悠久的教学历史和教学效率办公室，探索这些新项目的最佳教学法，并为教师在这些项目中的教学做好准备。 最后，我们将把完善的评估/持续改进计划纳入我们的新课程中。 该计划将源于我们已经成熟且得到广泛认可的国家授权的投资组合评估计划。 当我们开发、试点并全面实施独特的本科工程课程时，我们的有形产品将包括新文本、实验室实验以及硬拷贝和多媒体课程材料。 更重要的是，我们将培养为科学和工程职业做好更充分准备的学生，以及为教授科学和工程职业做好更充分准备的教师。 从长远来看，该项目将有助于我们继续从一所专注于教学的机构向专注于学习的机构转变。 我们的项目可以作为其他地方的产品和课程修订过程的基准。