Collaborative Research: Curricular Materials and Methods for Student Conceptual Understanding in Mechanics of Materials

合作研究：学生材料力学概念理解的课程材料和方法

• 批准号: 0837768
• 负责人: Bruce Emerson
• 金额: $ 4.75万
• 依托单位: Central Oregon Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Curricular; Materials; Methods

Assessment/Research (91)Engineering - Civil (54)The goal of this project is to investigate student conceptual understanding in Mechanics of Materials. The project will investigate student misconceptions and characterize student beliefs about learning in Mechanics of Materials in order to develop curricular materials and an instructional plan to improve student conceptual understanding. The proposed work builds on research in two areas - theoretical cognitive research that explains causes for students' conceptual difficulties, and action research that describes successful methods for overcoming these challenges. This project addresses students' previous beliefs about content and learning that interfere with their development of conceptual understanding. The project is employing interview and analysis methods that model earlier work by physics education researchers who have shown that it is possible to change student beliefs about content and learning in order to enable conceptual understanding. The project is also employing proven methods for developing curriculum materials and instructional strategies to address misconceptions and deepen conceptual understanding and student engagement.

评估/研究（91）工程-土木（54）这个项目的目标是调查学生对材料力学的概念理解。 该项目将调查学生的误解，并描述学生对材料力学学习的信念，以开发课程材料和教学计划，提高学生的概念理解。拟议的工作建立在两个领域的研究-理论认知研究，解释学生的概念困难的原因，和行动研究，描述克服这些挑战的成功方法。这个项目旨在解决学生以前对内容和学习的信念，干扰他们的概念理解的发展。 该项目采用访谈和分析方法，模拟物理教育研究人员的早期工作，这些研究人员已经表明，为了实现概念理解，改变学生对内容和学习的信念是可能的。 该项目还采用经过验证的方法来编制课程材料和教学战略，以消除误解，加深概念理解和学生参与。