MCCCD: Systemic Reform in Science - Phase I

MCCCD：科学系统改革 - 第一阶段

• 批准号: 9952695
• 负责人: Jeffrey Pommerville
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Maricopa County Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9952695&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MCCCD; Systemic; Reform; Science; Phase

Interdisciplinary (99) The Systemic Reform in Science Phase I Project is involving faculty from the 10 colleges of the nation's largest community college system (200,000 students) in interdisciplinary activities to better prepare them for teaching students who have a wider range of learning needs than in the past. The project's overall goal is to improve student success through increased faculty use of methods, which link science courses through real-life applications. The major activity is the adaptation of content to create 20 interdisciplinary modules for science courses. Implementation of these modules is being accomplished through the Management Team (MT) whose members are the PI, Co-Pls, and nine science faculty who serve as Peer Mentors (PM) at the individual colleges. Activities are being implemented to support integration and use of the interdisciplinary modules through faculty workshops and seminars. This includes an annual 1-2 day workshop on implementing active learning in science classrooms, and the establishment of Collaborative Learning Teams (CLT) of science faculty at each college who are working together with PMs to implement interdisciplinary modules and active learning in science classrooms. Outcome objectives include: 1) increasing, by 75 % over the baseline year, the number of full-time science faculty who use approaches aligned with systemic reform and 2) bringing the overall proportion of full-time science faculty who routinely use new approaches to 50% (50 faculty of 100). This project will be guided by using the adaptation and implementation of best practice examples, many generated by NSF sponsored projects, which foster the promotion of critical thinking, problem-solving skills and creativity/collaborative learning and which are interdisciplinary/contextually relevant. Major evaluation activities are: 1) regular monitoring by the MT; 2) pilot-testing of modules; 3) and pre-post evaluation design to measure implementation levels. Following preparation of a Final Evaluation Report, project processes/outcomes and interdisciplinary modules are being disseminated through the Project's website and through presentations at selected regional and national conferences. Other plans include the generation of a multimedia CD-ROM, the dissemination of videotapes of the workshops and publications in relevant professional journals. Because of the potential for impact on the education of technicians, this project is being co-funded by the Advanced Technological Education program.

跨学科(99)科学系统改革第一阶段项目邀请来自全国最大的社区学院系统(200,000名学生)中10所学院的教职员工参加跨学科活动，以更好地为教授比过去有更广泛学习需求的学生做好准备。该项目的总体目标是通过增加教师对方法的使用来提高学生的成功，这些方法将科学课程与现实生活中的应用联系起来。主要活动是调整内容，为科学课程创建20个跨学科模块。这些模块的实施是通过管理团队(MT)完成的，其成员是PI、Co-Pls和9名在各个学院担任同行导师(PM)的理科教员。正在开展活动，通过教员讲习班和研讨会支持跨学科模块的整合和使用。这包括每年1-2天的关于在科学课堂上实施主动学习的研讨会，以及在每个学院建立科学教员的协作学习小组(CLT)，他们与PM一起在科学课堂上实施跨学科模块和主动学习。成果目标包括：1)在基准年的基础上增加75%的全职理科教员，使用与系统改革相一致的方法；2)使经常使用新方法的全职理科教员的总比例达到50%(100人中有50人)。该项目将以最佳做法范例的改编和实施为指导，其中许多范例是由国家科学基金会赞助的项目产生的，这些范例有助于促进批判性思维、解决问题的技能和创造性/协作学习，而且这些范例具有跨学科/背景相关性。主要的评价活动是：1)技术管理组的定期监测；2)单元的试行测试；3)衡量执行水平的事后评价设计。在编写最后评价报告后，项目进程/成果和跨学科模块正通过项目网站和在选定的区域和国家会议上的介绍进行传播。其他计划包括制作多媒体光盘、传播讲习班的录像带和在有关专业期刊上发表出版物。由于可能对技术人员的教育产生影响，该项目由高级技术教育计划共同资助。