ClassAction: A Model Rapid-Feedback and Dynamic Formative Assessment System

ClassAction：模型快速反馈和动态形成性评估系统

• 批准号: 0404988
• 负责人: Kevin Lee
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0404988&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ClassAction; Model; Rapid; Feedback; Dynamic

The ClassAction project is developing a model for interactive classroom materials for formative assessment and rapid student feedback in introductory college science courses. Taking the form of carefully crafted multiple-choice questions in electronic databases, the formative assessment items are specifically designed for student voting that promote collaborative discussion. Based on student misconceptions research, they are designed to allow rapid and reliable formative assessment of student learning in large classrooms equipped with electronic personal response systems. The questions are illustrated visually with animations and simulations and are dynamic in that instructors can easily transform them into alternative representations. Considerable background instructional resources are included in each module to allow instructors to provide feedback. Initially set in the context of introductory astronomy for non-science majors, the questions target common student misconceptions that have proven difficult to overturn. The materials are designed using a learning cycle approach to encourage students to elicit, confront, and resolve their misconceptions. These efforts effectively balance research informed pedagogy and creativity. The ClassAction project has considerable impact on the way in which formative assessment is used to improve astronomy instruction and the underlying design is easily transferable to other disciplines. The database infrastructure and created materials are being widely disseminated throughout the science education community.

ClassAction项目正在开发一种互动式课堂材料模型，用于大学科学入门课程的形成性评估和快速学生反馈。采用电子数据库中精心设计的多项选择题的形式，形成性评估项目是专门为学生投票设计的，以促进合作讨论。基于对学生误解的研究，它们的设计目的是允许在配备电子个人响应系统的大型教室中对学生的学习进行快速可靠的形成性评估。这些问题用动画和模拟在视觉上加以说明，并且是动态的，因为教师可以很容易地将它们转换为替代表示。每个模块包含相当多的背景教学资源，以便教师提供反馈。这些问题最初是为非理工科学生设置的天文学入门课程，针对的是学生普遍存在的误解，这些误解已被证明是难以推翻的。这些材料的设计使用了一个学习循环的方法来鼓励学生引出、面对和解决他们的误解。这些努力有效地平衡了研究型教学法和创造性。ClassAction项目对形成性评估用于改进天文学教学的方式产生了相当大的影响，其基本设计很容易转移到其他学科。数据库基础设施和创建的材料正在整个科学教育界广泛传播。