SciTrain: Science, Math and Technology for All

SciTrain：全民科学、数学和技术

• 批准号: 0622885
• 负责人: Robert Todd
• 金额: $ 29.94万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0622885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SciTrain; Science; Math; Technology

AbstractThe Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) and the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at Georgia Tech propose an alliance with the Cobb County School System to create SciTrain, a multi-faceted project to enhance the capacities of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers in high schools. Building upon successful research and programs conducted by CATEA and CEISMC, it will use multiple evaluations to determine the most important needs of teachers and focus upon teacher evaluations of project success. SciTrain's goal is to create more effective teachers and more powerful learning experiences for students.SciTrain will create Web-based courses for high school educators to instruct them in the creation of STEM coursework for students with disabilities. The online courses will demonstrate methods for approaching access problems and will train teachers to generate their own ideas and solutions for accommodations. They will provide instruction on the creation of both adapted curricula and labs. Each course will be composed of discrete modules tailored to the needs of teachers, eachaddressing a fundamental issue in accessible STEM education. Teachers will be able to study individual modules or complete entire courses for continuing education units (CEUs) and professional learning units (PLUs). The result will be improved STEM education for high school students.SciTrain will work closely with Cobb County, Georgia high school instructors to ensure focused research and evaluation of its project results. Courses will be tested with these teachers prior to release to a national audience. Cobb County teachers will also participate in ongoing evaluation of project results, serving as a test-bed for the SciTrain model in action.Intellectual MeritThe proposed program is vital to expanding knowledge about methods and practices to ensure the full inclusion of all students in STEM education. SciTrain will unite universal design practices with several fields of study/activity, including: science pedagogy, assistive technology, human-computer interaction, distance learning and disability studies. The project will leverage extensive prior and ongoing research at Georgia Tech and partner institutions.Broader ImpactThe proposed program is vital in providing education for teachers in an area often neglected in their educations. Through improved educational practices, it will enhance accessibility of STEM education for students with disabilities, as well as improving participation in STEM education and careers for these students. Improved STEM education will broaden the participation of students with disabilities currently an underrepresented group in STEM education. SciTrain will also enhance the infrastructure for research and education by providing extensive online resources that can be used by anyone, anywhere to address accessible STEM education.

格鲁吉亚理工学院的辅助技术和环境访问中心（CATEA）和教育整合科学、数学和计算中心（CEISMC）提议与科布县学校系统结盟，创建SciTrain，这是一个多方面的项目，旨在提高高中科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师的能力。在CATEA和CEISMC成功开展的研究和项目的基础上，它将使用多种评估来确定教师最重要的需求，并侧重于教师对项目成功的评估。SciTrain的目标是为学生创造更有效的教师和更强大的学习体验。SciTrain将为高中教育工作者创建基于网络的课程，指导他们为残疾学生创建STEM课程。在线课程将展示处理出入问题的方法，并将培训教师提出自己的想法和解决办法。他们将提供关于创建适应课程和实验室的指导。每门课程都将由针对教师需求量身定制的独立模块组成，每个模块都涉及无障碍STEM教育中的一个基本问题。教师将能够学习个别模块或完成整个课程的继续教育单位（CEU）和专业学习单位（PLU）。结果将改善高中生的STEM教育。SciTrain将与格鲁吉亚州科布县的高中教师密切合作，以确保对其项目结果进行重点研究和评估。课程将在向全国观众发布之前由这些教师进行测试。科布县的教师也将参与对项目成果的持续评估，作为SciTrain模型的试验平台。智力优势拟议的计划对于扩大有关方法和实践的知识至关重要，以确保所有学生都能充分参与STEM教育。SciTrain将通用设计实践与几个研究/活动领域结合起来，包括：科学教育学，辅助技术，人机交互，远程学习和残疾研究。该项目将利用广泛的先前和正在进行的研究在格鲁吉亚技术和合作机构。更广泛的影响拟议的计划是至关重要的，在一个领域的教师提供教育往往忽视了他们的教育。通过改进教育实践，它将提高残疾学生获得STEM教育的机会，并提高这些学生对STEM教育和职业的参与。改善STEM教育将扩大目前在STEM教育中代表性不足的残疾学生的参与。SciTrain还将通过提供广泛的在线资源来加强研究和教育的基础设施，任何人都可以在任何地方使用这些资源来解决无障碍STEM教育问题。