BRAID 2.0: Bringing Relationships Alive through Interdisciplinary Discourse

BRAID 2.0：通过跨学科对话让关系活跃起来

• 批准号: 1022754
• 负责人: Ryan Sweeder
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 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 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022754&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BRAID; 2.0; Bringing; Relationships; Alive

The BRAID 2.0 project is: (i) creating intensely BRAIDed clusters of freshman undergraduate science and technology courses and (ii) pursuing a longitudinal research study of both the change in attitudes and understanding of students and faculty over time. Over four years the project is generating five sets of multiple curricular BRAIDs, that explicitly tie the overlapping topic content of three disciplinary courses, e.g. Math, Chemistry and History of Science, with a small additional weekly seminar class that emphasizes interdisciplinary discussions between students and all three faculty. In research, this project employs a longitudinal study tracking the performance of students who pass through the BRAID curriculum (and controls, i.e. students who do not participate) as they continue in their upper-level courses and progress to graduation. We expect the participating students to show improved interdisciplinary thinking skills and improved performance in subsequent upper-level courses where topics become quite interdisciplinary. These gains during the BRAID experience and following in the tracking years are being examined via expert interviews, surveys and course performances. In addition we are also studying change in faculty expertise and attitudes over time. In this project we are gathering data to strategically contribute to research on undergraduate learning of science. These results have direct applications for improving educational practice in undergraduate science and technology courses. They will impact our understanding of how this experience catalyzes change in students' attitudes and understanding, as well as in that for participating faculty.

Braid 2.0项目是：（i）创建新生本科科学和技术课程的密集编织的集群，以及（ii）对随着时间的推移的态度变化和对学生和教师的理解的变化以及对时间的理解进行纵向研究。在四年中，该项目将生成五组多个课程编织，这些辫子明确地将三个学科课程的重叠主题内容（例如数学，化学和科学史，每周一次的一次研讨会课程强调学生与这三个教师之间的跨学科讨论。在研究中，该项目采用了一项纵向研究，跟踪了通过编织课程（以及对照，即不参加的学生）的表现，因为他们继续参加高层课程并逐步毕业。我们预计，参与的学生将在随后的高级课程中表现出提高的跨学科思维能力和提高的表现，在这些课程中，主题变得非常跨学科。这些在编织经验和跟踪年份的收益正在通过专家访谈，调查和课程表演进行检查。此外，随着时间的流逝，我们还在研究教师专业知识和态度的变化。在这个项目中，我们正在收集数据，以战略性地为科学的本科学习研究做出贡献。这些结果直接应用于改善本科科学和技术课程中的教育实践。它们将影响我们对这种经历如何促进学生态度和理解以及参与教师的理解。