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)创建密集的BRAID本科科技课程集群；（ii）对学生和教师的态度和理解随时间的变化进行纵向研究。在四年的时间里，该项目产生了五套多课程BRAIDs，明确地将三个学科课程（如数学、化学和科学史）的重叠主题内容与一个小的额外的每周研讨会联系起来，强调学生和所有三个教师之间的跨学科讨论。在研究中，该项目采用纵向研究，跟踪通过BRAID课程的学生（和对照组，即不参加课程的学生）在继续高级课程和毕业过程中的表现。我们期望参与的学生表现出更好的跨学科思维能力，并在随后的高级课程中表现更好，这些课程的主题变得非常跨学科。通过专家访谈、调查和课程表现，我们将对BRAID项目期间以及后续跟踪年份所取得的成果进行评估。此外，我们也在研究教师专业知识和态度随时间的变化。在这个项目中，我们正在收集数据，以战略性地为本科生科学学习的研究做出贡献。这些结果对改进本科理工科课程的教学实践具有直接的应用价值。它们将影响我们对这种经历如何促进学生态度和理解的变化以及参与其中的教师的理解。