Adapting and Implementing the SCALE-UP Approach in Statics, Dynamics, and Multivariate Calculus

（59-工程：其他）在克莱姆森教师的多学科团队正在努力提供更有效的静态和动态教学。他们的工作特别是建立在另外两个NSF资助的项目上。该项目正在开发合作学习活动，这些活动是对《静态学：下一代》开发的活动的补充，并使用以学生为中心的大规模招生大学项目活动（SCALE-UP）模型来交付这些活动，教授大型工作室课程，其中主要强调通过引导探究而不是通过倾听来学习。目前的授课方式正在进行重大修改，两个连续的课程正在整合，根据学生在机械工程和土木工程的需求。包括多元微积分学习练习的合作伙伴关系有助于学生转移知识，并对课程内容有更深入的理解。学生学习的进步是以现有概念测试的标准化增益来衡量的。教师发展活动，包括讲习班和辅导，正在培养一支正在学习设计和实施合作学习活动的教师队伍。对大规模招生班级教师的指导有助于在整个课程中扩大这些教学方法的使用，本项目开发的材料适用于其他大学的静态和动态课程。

(59-Engineering:Other) A multidisciplinary team of faculty at Clemson is working to deliver more effective Statics and Dynamics instruction. Their work builds particularly ontwo other NSF-funded projects. The project is developing cooperative learningactivities that are complementary to those developed through Statics: The NextGeneration and delivering them using the Student-Centered Activities for LargeEnrollment University Programs (SCALE-UP) model, teaching large studio classeswhere the primary emphasis is on learning by guided inquiry instead of bylistening. The present lecture approach is being revised significantly and thetwo sequential courses are being integrated according to the needs of students inmechanical engineering and civil engineering. A partnership to include learningexercises from multivariate calculus is helping students transfer knowledge anddevelop a more robust understanding of the course content. Improvements in student learning is being measured in terms of normalized gain on existing conceptual tests. Faculty development activities, including workshops and mentoring, are nurturing a cadre of faculty who are learning to design and implement cooperative learningactivities. The mentoring of faculty in large-enrollment classes is helpingexpand the use of these teaching methods throughout the curriculum, and thematerials developed in this project are applicable to statics and dynamicscourses at other universities.