Developing Online Value Inventories to Predict and Improve Student Success in STEM Education

开发在线价值清单以预测和提高学生在 STEM 教育中的成功

• 批准号: 0815046
• 负责人: Donald Deeds
• 金额: $ 36.83万
• 依托单位: Drury University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0815046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Online; Value; Inventories; Predict

Assessment/Research (91) This Phase 2 CCLI project is continuing to develop and test assessment tools focused on measuring the value that students place on learning science and mathematics. A primary goal is to provide instructors with improved methods for shaping their courses and curricula so as to improve student success in STEM education, building on earlier work that produced the Science Value Inventory (SVI) and Math Value Inventory (MVI). These instruments were developed to test the idea that real STEM literacy requires students to find value in their STEM courses. Data from testing the paper versions of both instruments indicate that they are both valid and reliable. They are now in use in a variety of institutions around the country. Analysis of survey results has detected significant gender differences, and variations among instructors and curricula. Analysis has also found similarities in how students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Midwestern state universities value science. This project is more widely disseminating these tools for general education, and working on developing similar tools for STEM majors. The project phases and goals are to (1) Develop and implement an accessible, efficient web-based system for administering the MVI and SVI instruments. Project tasks being conducted include validating the online versions, and creating an automated process for recording student registration, student responses, demographic information, and submission of instructor and course information. (2) Develop new online value inventories to use with STEM majors. Project tasks being conducted include initial testing and modification of the instruments to ensure that they are valid and reliable using online protocols. This task requires the development of more sensitive instruments, because undergraduate STEM majors tend initially to place greater value on science or math (or both). The Web-based system constructed in the first phase of this work is being used to administer these inventories, analyze and distribute the results, and build a database that provides insight into how value affects STEM majors' prospects for success.(3) Conduct analyses to determine the power of these instruments in predicting student success in STEM education. The collected data are being used to build a national database of student values, allowing comparison against national norms, as well as subgroups based on institutional type, student background, ethnicity, gender and other variables.

评估/研究（91）CCLI项目第二阶段继续开发和测试评估工具，重点是衡量学生对学习科学和数学的价值。一个主要目标是为教师提供改进的方法来塑造他们的课程和课程，以提高学生在STEM教育中的成功，建立在早期的工作，产生了科学价值清单（SVI）和数学价值清单（MVI）。这些工具的开发是为了测试这样一种想法，即真实的STEM素养要求学生在他们的STEM课程中找到价值。 从测试两种仪器的纸质版本的数据表明，他们都是有效的和可靠的。 目前，全国各地的各种机构都在使用它们。 对调查结果的分析发现，性别差异很大，教员和课程也各不相同。 分析还发现，历史上的黑人学院和大学以及中西部州立大学的学生在重视科学方面有相似之处。该项目正在更广泛地传播这些用于普通教育的工具，并致力于为STEM专业开发类似的工具。该项目的阶段和目标是：（1）开发和实施一个可访问的、有效的基于网络的系统，用于管理MVI和SVI仪器。 正在进行的项目任务包括验证在线版本，并创建一个自动化的过程来记录学生注册，学生的反应，人口统计信息，并提交教师和课程信息。 (2)开发新的在线价值清单，用于STEM专业。正在进行的项目任务包括初步测试和修改仪器，以确保它们使用在线协议是有效和可靠的。 这项任务需要开发更敏感的工具，因为本科STEM专业的学生最初往往更重视科学或数学（或两者兼而有之）。在这项工作的第一阶段构建的基于网络的系统正在被用来管理这些库存，分析和分发结果，并建立一个数据库，以了解价值如何影响STEM专业的成功前景。(3)进行分析，以确定这些工具在预测学生在STEM教育中取得成功的能力。收集到的数据正用于建立一个全国学生价值观数据库，以便与国家标准以及基于机构类型、学生背景、种族、性别和其他变量的分组进行比较。