Learning from the Best: How Award Winning Courseware has Impacted Engineering Education

向最好的人学习：获奖课件如何影响工程教育

• 批准号: 0937784
• 负责人: Flora McMartin
• 金额: $ 14.86万
• 依托单位: Broad-based Knowledge
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0937784&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Learning; Best; How; Award; Winning

This project is exploring the existence of indicators that are evidence of improved student learning resulting from the National STEM Digital Library (NSDL). In particular it is studying whether focusing on a particular Library collection and using multiple methods to measure impact will provide insight into improving the design of the Library. Evidence of student impact is difficult to develop. This was the conclusion of a January 2009 "Science" article, "NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library." This article stated that there is no evidence to date that the NSDL has improved student learning. Despite this conclusion, members of this project's study team accumulated anecdotal evidence of positive impact on student learning while working with the NSDL project, "Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? Learning the Lessons and Disseminating Exemplary Practices from the Projects of the NSDL." This study is examining a coherent section of the NSDL, the "Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware," sponsored by the NSDL Engineering Pathway. It is employing the case study research method. The rationale for this approach is to focus on a collection that has a high possibility of providing data on student impact and, further, that may provide some useful insight into effects on student learning. Over the last 12 years, the Premier Award competition, and its precursor (NEEDS), reviewed 100 courseware submissions and selected 21 award winning courseware creations and eight finalist candidates. The award winning courseware has been disseminated widely. Premier Award winning materials have been the most frequently downloaded materials on the NEEDS/Engineering Pathway website. Over 20,000 Premier Award CDs have been distributed and workshops and seminars for engineering educators have been held. Hence the case study of the Premier Award has the potential of discovering a large user population. In general, identifying faculty users has been a significant challenge for NSDL research. The Premier Award provides an opportunity to reach a population of users and learn from them. The research is addressing the following questions: 1. How has receipt of the Premier Award impacted the awardees' career paths and why? 2. How has the quality of the courseware submitted changed over time? 3. How has the award winning courseware affected or impacted student learning? The project is studying the population of faculty that is using courseware available through NSDL (via the NEEDS/Engineering Pathway). The findings from this research will lay the groundwork for future in-depth, longitudinal studies of impact on teaching and learning that reach across the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.

该项目正在探索国家STEM数字图书馆（NSDL）改善学生学习的证据指标的存在。 特别是，它正在研究是否将重点放在一个特定的图书馆收藏和使用多种方法来衡量影响将提供洞察力，以改善图书馆的设计。学生影响的证据很难发展。 这是2009年1月《科学》杂志上一篇文章的结论，“NSF重新思考其数字图书馆。“这篇文章指出，到目前为止，没有证据表明NSDL改善了学生的学习。尽管如此，该项目的研究小组成员在与NSDL项目“我们从哪里来，我们要去哪里？从国家发展研究院的项目中吸取经验教训并推广示范做法。这项研究正在研究NSDL的一个连贯的部分，“卓越工程教育课程的总理奖”，由NSDL工程途径赞助。本文采用案例研究的方法。这种方法的基本原理是集中在一个集合，有很大的可能性提供数据的学生的影响，并进一步，这可能会提供一些有用的洞察学生学习的影响。在过去的12年里，总理奖的竞争，其前身（NEEDS），审查了100课件提交，并选择了21获奖课件创作和八个入围候选人。获奖课件已广泛传播。 获奖材料是NEEDS/Engineering Pathway网站上下载最频繁的材料。 已分发了20，000多张高级奖光盘，并为工程教育工作者举办了讲习班和研讨会。因此，卓越奖的案例研究有可能发现大量的用户群。在一般情况下，确定教师用户一直是一个重大的挑战，NSDL的研究。 卓越奖提供了一个接触用户群体并向他们学习的机会。 本研究旨在解决以下问题：1.获得卓越奖如何影响获奖者的职业道路，为什么？2.提交的课件质量如何随时间变化？3.获奖课件对学生的学习有何影响？该项目正在研究通过NSDL（通过NEEDS/工程途径）使用课件的教师群体。这项研究的结果将为未来深入的纵向研究奠定基础，研究对跨科学，技术，工程和数学的教学和学习的影响。