Simulation and Modeling in Technology Education (SMTE)

技术教育仿真与建模 (SMTE)

• 批准号: 0821965
• 负责人: Michael Hacker
• 金额: $ 321.96万
• 依托单位: Hofstra University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0821965&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Simulation; Modeling; Technology; Education; SMTE

Simulation and Modeling in Technology Education (SMTE) is a five-year project that develops and researches the academic potential of a hybrid instructional model that infuses computer simulations, modeling, and educational gaming into middle school technology education programs. These prototypical materials use 3-D simulations and educational gaming to support students learning STEM content and skills through developing solutions to design challenges. The virtual environment allows students to analyze and improve their designs by changing variables and observing how their changes affect design performance. Once the designs are optimized on-screen, students will construct physical models and compare their functionality and effectiveness to the simulated virtual models. A uniqueness of the Project is the development of an innovative Web-based instructor design interface and a library of objects to enable instructors to modify the context of the design problems to fit different instructional and geographic settings. The research investigates the transferability of the model and its potential to improve STEM teaching and learning. The project incorporates a cyber-enabled engineering design approach that integrates science and mathematics and uses contemporary technological tools and pedagogical strategies. The content is driven by the concepts and skills identified in the K-12 Standards for Technological Literacy (STL). The partners are Hofstra University?s Center for Technological Literacy, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the NSF National Center for Telecommunications Technologies, Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, and the City University of New York. The research design includes a test of three conditions: the experimental (hybrid) condition; the gaming and simulation only condition that involves students in the virtual tasks only; and students doing physical modeling task. Testing will involve 12 teachers and 240 students with data collected in six assessment domains. Data will be analyzed using a variety of multivariate statistical analyses.

模拟和建模技术教育（SMTE）是一个为期五年的项目，开发和研究的混合教学模式，注入计算机模拟，建模和教育游戏到中学技术教育课程的学术潜力。 这些原型材料使用3D模拟和教育游戏来支持学生通过开发设计挑战的解决方案来学习STEM内容和技能。 虚拟环境允许学生通过改变变量并观察其变化如何影响设计性能来分析和改进他们的设计。一旦设计在屏幕上优化，学生将构建物理模型，并将其功能和有效性与模拟的虚拟模型进行比较。该项目的一个独特之处是开发了一个创新的基于Web的教师设计界面和一个对象库，使教师能够修改设计问题的上下文，以适应不同的教学和地理环境。该研究调查了该模型的可移植性及其改善STEM教学和学习的潜力。 该项目采用了一种网络化工程设计方法，将科学和数学结合起来，并使用当代技术工具和教学战略。内容是由K-12技术素养标准（STL）中确定的概念和技能驱动的。 合伙人是霍夫斯特拉大学吗美国国家科学基金会国家电信技术中心、宾夕法尼亚州的布卢姆斯堡大学和纽约城市大学。研究设计包括三个条件的测试：实验（混合）条件;仅涉及学生的虚拟任务的游戏和模拟条件;和学生做物理建模任务。 测试将涉及12名教师和240名学生，在六个评估领域收集数据。 将使用各种多变量统计分析对数据进行分析。