Representing and Learning from Classroom Processes

代表课堂过程并从中学习

• 批准号: 0089293
• 负责人: Kevin Miller
• 金额: $ 182.42万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0089293&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Representing; Learning; Classroom; Processes

Innovative video-based techniques are opening new windows on the processes involved in teaching and learning. Yet experiences with using video examples as a method of providing instruction about teaching suggests that there are important obstacles to be overcome before this technology can serve as the basis for improving education. This proposal will address the problems involved in developing effective ways to use video records of classroom processes as a means to help teachers reflect on the processes of teaching and learning. The research has two major related goals: 1) studying the cognitive processes involved in learning from video and developing effective combinations of materials and tasks that promote teacher understanding of classroom processes, and 2) developing new methods for producing and disseminating video records of classroom processes that overcome some of the major limitations of current techniques. The proposed studies will describe the problem space of video materials and viewer tasks to find an optimal set of procedures for effectively using vignettes taken from classroom video as an educational technique. To promote generalization of results, the proposed studies will include children at two grade levels (1 & 4) and focus on two central topics in elementary school mathematics (learning about number representation and place value in grade 1, and learning about fraction representation and equivalence in grade 4). The system will be tested for its impact on teacher understanding, teaching practices, and student learning. The system will use the Internet to develop and implement teacher learning communities. Experience in developing and testing these materials will also facilitate extending the approach to other grades and domains.

创新的基于视频的技术正在为教学过程打开新的窗口。然而，使用视频例子作为教学指导方法的经验表明，在这项技术成为改进教育的基础之前，还有一些重要的障碍需要克服。这项建议将解决制定有效方法利用课堂过程录像作为帮助教师反思教与学过程的手段所涉及的问题。这项研究有两个主要的相关目标：1)研究从视频中学习的认知过程，并开发有效的材料和任务组合，以促进教师对课堂过程的理解；2)开发新的方法来制作和传播课堂过程的视频记录，以克服当前技术的一些主要限制。拟议的研究将描述视频材料和观众任务的问题空间，以找到一套有效利用课堂视频片段作为教育技术的最佳程序。为了促进结果的推广，拟议的研究将包括两个年级(1年级和4年级)的儿童，并集中在小学数学的两个中心主题(学习一年级的数字表示法和位值，以及四年级的分数表示法和等价性)。该系统将测试其对教师理解、教学实践和学生学习的影响。该系统将利用互联网开发和实施教师学习社区。开发和测试这些材料的经验也将有助于将这种方法推广到其他职系和领域。