STEM Educational Change Efforts in Higher Education: A Meta-Synthesis of Activities, Strategies, Concepts, and Theories across Disciplines

高等教育中的 STEM 教育变革努力：跨学科活动、策略、概念和理论的元综合

• 批准号: 0723699
• 负责人: Andrea Beach
• 金额: $ 19.84万
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0723699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; Educational; Change; Efforts; Higher

This project proposes to critically review, integrate, and align the research literatures and perspectives of scholars in three fields: the Disciplinary-based STEM Education Researchers (SER), who focus on change in curricula and pedagogical materials; the Faculty Development Researchers (FDR), who focus on changing faculty and the Higher Education Researchers (HER) who evaluate the policies and structures at various organizational levels that support or impede change. The method will be a meta-synthesis of the three research literatures followed by a four x four classification scheme: change activities and strategies by change concepts and theories that have the most promise for future work. (One or more classifications will be given to each literature entry and literature with credible evidence will be given priority in the scheme.)The ultimate aim of the project is to support the development of an interdisciplinary research and practice agenda for STEM instructional improvement. This process will be strengthened by interviews with 10 leading practitioners in each area followed by the Delphi technique, because practice is often not specified in the literature. The outcomes of this synthesis project will be used to identify: 1) change activities, strategies, concepts, and theories across communities 2) common themes among disparate literatures; 3) evidence to support each change activity and strategy; and 4) promising directions for future research, theory-building, and funding.

这个项目建议对三个领域的学者的研究文献和观点进行批判性的审查、整合和调整：基于学科的STEM教育研究人员(SER)，他们专注于课程和教学材料的变化；学院发展研究人员(FDR)，他们专注于教师的变化；以及高等教育研究人员(HER)，他们评估支持或阻碍变化的各级组织的政策和结构。该方法将是对三篇研究文献的综合，然后是一个四×四的分类方案：通过对未来工作最有希望的变化概念和理论来确定变化活动和战略。(将对每个文献条目进行一个或多个分类，在该计划中将优先考虑具有可信证据的文献。)该项目的最终目的是支持制定跨学科研究和实践议程，以改进STEM的教学。这一过程将通过采访每个领域的10名主要实践者来加强，然后是Delphi技术，因为文献中往往没有具体说明实践。这一综合项目的成果将被用来确定：1)跨社区的变化活动、战略、概念和理论；2)不同文献中的共同主题；3)支持每个变化活动和战略的证据；以及4)未来研究、理论建设和资金的有希望的方向。