A Coherent Multi-disciplinary Initiative to Enhance Student Learning in STEM Courses

旨在加强学生 STEM 课程学习的连贯多学科举措

• 批准号: 1022563
• 负责人: Howard Jackson
• 金额: $ 24.96万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 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: 2010-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Coherent; Multi; disciplinary; Initiative; Enhance

This project is engaged in improving undergraduate teaching and student learning in the foundational courses across all STEM disciplines. This goal is being pursued by integrating two powerful teaching techniques, Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) and Peer Instruction (PI) within a Personal Response System. A goal is to combine these techniques in a coherent model across the STEM disciplines. This is a broad extension of previous efforts. A multidisciplinary team of faculty from Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, and Physics is engaged in creating a coherent, engaging, and effective student learning environment across these disciplines. Synergistic interactions among the classes in these disciplines - both at the content level and at the student experience level - is expected to result in enhanced student learning outcomes. Special attention is being paid to first generation college students through the deployment of specially-designed learning communities, because this demographic group has historically performed far below average in introductory STEM classes. This project is also designing a program of activities to assist new instructors to teach these redesigned courses in a collaborative, supportive, multi-disciplinary framework. The progress of these efforts is guided by the outcomes of carefully designed formative and summative evaluations.

该项目致力于改善所有STEM学科基础课程的本科教学和学生学习。这一目标是通过整合两个强大的教学技术，即时教学（JiTT）和同伴指导（PI）在个人反应系统。我们的目标是将这些技术联合收割机整合到一个跨STEM学科的连贯模型中。这是以前努力的广泛延伸。来自生物学，化学，地质学，工程学，数学科学和物理学的多学科教师团队致力于在这些学科中创造一个连贯，引人入胜和有效的学生学习环境。这些学科的课程之间的协同互动-无论是在内容层面还是在学生体验层面-都有望提高学生的学习成果。通过部署专门设计的学习社区，对第一代大学生给予了特别关注，因为这一人口群体在入门STEM课程中的表现一直远低于平均水平。该项目还设计了一个活动计划，以帮助新教师在合作，支持和多学科框架内教授这些重新设计的课程。这些努力的进展以精心设计的形成性和总结性评价的结果为指导。