Developing, Researching, and Scaling Up SmartGraphs

开发、研究和扩展 SmartGraph

• 批准号: 0918522
• 负责人: Carolyn Staudt
• 金额: $ 281.95万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0918522&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Researching; Scaling; Up; SmartGraphs

The project goal is to develop Smart Graphs, document their effectiveness through rigorous research, and scale the implementation so this technology becomes widely available. The project studies the educational value of "Smart Graphs", digital objects that "know" about themselves and that provide scaffolding to students to help them learn about graphs and the concepts conveyed in graphs. As planned, digital Smart Graphs can be authored or customized by teachers and accept inputs from students? responses, sketches, functions, models, and probes. The software analyzes the graphs for the kinds of features that experts recognize and then engages students in conversations that instruct and assess.The development of Smart Graphs is based on extensive prior research about students' use and understanding of graphs (TEEMSS II Project). The project is guided by a collaboration between the Concord Consortium and the Pennsylvania State Department of Education. Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future program, through which 40,000 laptop computers are deployed to serve 500,000 students. An outstanding panel of researchers and educators serve as project advisors. After early development and optimization working with one high school, the technology is fully tested in 24 schools in conjunction with units on force and motion. Comparison studies (random assignment with implementation delays) provide the sources of data. The final years are devoted to scaling, reaching 200 teachers in addition to publishers who will be offered support and open source materials.

该项目的目标是开发智能图形，通过严格的研究记录它们的有效性，并扩大实施范围，使这项技术得到广泛应用。该项目研究了“智能图表”的教育价值，“智能图表”是一种“了解”自己的数字对象，它为学生提供了帮助他们学习图表和图表中所传达的概念的脚手架。按照计划，数字智能图表可以由教师创作或定制，并接受学生的输入？回应、草图、功能、模型和探头。该软件分析图形，以获得专家识别的各种特征，然后让学生参与指导和评估的对话。Smart Graph的开发基于对学生使用和理解图形的广泛先前研究(TEEMSS II项目)。该项目由协和联盟和宾夕法尼亚州教育部合作指导。宾夕法尼亚州的未来教室计划，通过该计划部署了40,000台笔记本电脑，为500,000名学生服务。一个由杰出的研究人员和教育工作者组成的小组担任项目顾问。经过与一所高中的早期开发和优化工作，这项技术在24所学校与部队和运动单位一起进行了全面测试。比较研究(随机分配和实施延迟)提供了数据来源。最后几年将致力于扩大规模，除了将向出版商提供支持和开源材料外，还将接触到200名教师。