Development and Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Instruction in the Methods of Scientific Sociology

科学社会学方法中计算机辅助教学的发展与评价

• 批准号: 9752619
• 负责人: Charles Cappell
• 金额: $ 16.08万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-05-15 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9752619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Evaluation; Computer; Assisted; Instruction

This project proposes the development of approximately ten computer programs utilizing new features of multi-media, interactive, instructional design. The programs will reinforce the conceptual learning of the basic elements of quantitative/statistical reasoning in the social sciences: critical thinking skills, probability, conceptual modeling and hypotheses construction, statistical modeling, sampling, and inference. Instructional design techniques are used to improve student learning: interactive feedback, learner control, active learning, conceptual mapping, and performance tracking. The modules will be written using AUTHORWARE, an application development tool that creates programs executable as both resident software and over an INTRANET using AUTHORWARE's browser plug-in, SHOCKWAVE. The development of these applications addresses a major problem encountered in teaching quantitative statistical reasoning - how to improve students' understanding of basic concepts used in statistical reasoning, the linkage between concepts, and their role in solving real world problems, especially among students under educated in mathematics. The modules will be used in a course sited in a laboratory known as the Sociology Quantitative Research Laboratory, which was equipped with the aid of an NSF ILI grant. These modules will add the "conceptual learning" tools to existing "computational learning" lab tools. An experimental design using students in an introductory methods course will evaluate the improvement in student learning. The learning modules will have a general social science context relevant for nearly all sociology and social science research courses. We plan to distribute the modules commercially.

本计画提出利用多媒体、互动式、教学设计的新特性，开发约十个电脑程式。该计划将加强社会科学中定量/统计推理基本要素的概念学习：批判性思维技能，概率，概念建模和假设构建，统计建模，抽样和推理。 教学设计技术被用来提高学生的学习：互动反馈，学习者控制，主动学习，概念图，和性能跟踪。这些模块将使用CNOORWARE编写，CNOORWARE是一种应用程序开发工具，可创建作为常驻软件和使用CNOORWARE的浏览器插件SHOCKWAVE在内联网上执行的程序。这些应用程序的开发解决了定量统计推理教学中遇到的一个主要问题-如何提高学生对统计推理中使用的基本概念的理解，概念之间的联系，以及它们在解决真实的世界问题中的作用，特别是在数学教育程度较低的学生中。 这些模块将用于一个实验室的课程，该实验室被称为社会学定量研究实验室，该实验室配备了NSF ILI赠款的援助。 这些模块将把“概念学习”工具添加到现有的“计算学习”实验室工具中。 一个实验设计，使用学生在介绍方法课程将评估学生学习的改善。学习模块将具有与几乎所有社会学和社会科学研究课程相关的一般社会科学背景。我们计划将这些模块商业化。