Analysis of Linkages Between Engineering Programs and Teacher Education Program

工程课程与教师教育课程之间的联系分析

• 批准号: 9728361
• 负责人: Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 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: 1997-10-15 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9728361&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analysis; Linkages; Between; Engineering; Programs

The primary objective of this project is to build upon the work done in 1996 by a team of WPI students who focused on the impact of NSF-funded projects in science for elementary teacher preparation. In 1997, another team of students would focus on related issues, but in the engineering fields. A major goal of the 1997 work would be to make engineering students more aware of teaching as a career. Specifically the student team will engage in a variety of activities as follows: 1) research the projects that NSF has funded that relate K-12 teacher education and engineering, 2) determine what has been the impact of these projects on K-12 teachers, 3) examine, on the basis of the above activities, the feasibility of implementing at other institutions, what has emerged as the best practices, 4) investigate what is the role of technology and its effective uses in teacher preparation, as recommended by the 1996 student team, The bulk of the research for this project would be conducted at NSF headquarters, with visits to a sample of the NSF-funded project sites. The student team would conduct interviews with Principal Investigators and other personnel associated with the projects. They would also conduct interviews with students who are being exposed to the NSF-funded activities at the same sites. The interviews would be structured particularly to address points, two, three, and four above. In preparation for those visits, the team would prepare a full literature review of previous studies done on teacher education in the engineering fields and related areas. In addition, the would survey the literature relating to the use of technology in classrooms. The primary benefit to NSF in having this information would be an increased understanding of what constitutes "best practices" in the field and to understand how best to use this information in promoting and implementing collaborative links that exist between engineering programs and teacher education.

该项目的主要目标是建立在1996年由WPI学生团队所做的工作的基础上，该团队专注于NSF资助的小学教师科学准备项目的影响。 1997年，另一组学生将侧重于有关问题，但在工程领域。 1997年工作的一个主要目标是让工程专业的学生更加意识到教学是一种职业。 具体来说，学生团队将从事各种活动如下： 1)研究NSF资助的涉及K-12教师教育和工程的项目， 2)确定这些项目对K-12教师的影响， 3)在上述活动的基础上，审查在其他机构实施已出现的最佳做法的可行性， 4)调查技术的作用及其在教师培训中的有效使用，正如1996年学生小组所建议的那样， 该项目的大部分研究将在NSF总部进行，并访问NSF资助的项目地点。 学生团队将与主要研究人员和与项目相关的其他人员进行访谈。 他们还将与在同一地点参加国家科学基金会资助活动的学生进行面谈。 访谈的结构将特别针对上述第二、第三和第四点。 在为这些访问作准备时，该小组将编写一份关于以往在工程领域和有关领域进行的师资教育研究的全面文献综述。 此外，还将调查与在教室中使用技术有关的文献。 NSF获得这些信息的主要好处是增加了对该领域“最佳实践”的理解，并了解如何最好地利用这些信息来促进和实施工程项目和教师教育之间存在的合作联系。