Exploring Studio-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Education

探索化学工程教育中的工作室学习

• 批准号: 1023112
• 负责人: Richard Zollars
• 金额: $ 59.99万
• 依托单位: Washington 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: 2010-12-15 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Studio; Based; Learning; Chemical

This project builds on a previously developed scaffolded software environment called ChemProV (Chemical Process Visualizer). ChemProV presents chemical engineering students with dynamically-generated feedback on the syntactic and semantic correctness of their evolving process flow diagrams and sets of equations, guiding them toward correct solutions. Prior evaluations show that ChemProV promotes a statistically significant advantage in problem-solving accuracy, significantly more time on task, and a robust transfer-of-training to an unscaffolded problem-solving situation. In order to expand its impact, this project integrates ChemProV with a studio-based curricular approach in which students use ChemProV to construct solutions to material and energy balance problems, and present their solutions to their peers and instructor for critical review and discussion. The project integrates ChemProV into an online peer review environment, thus enabling the peer reviews to be performed completely online. Chemical engineering instructors at 10 new institutions will adopt ChemProV and the studio-based approach in their gateway material/energy balance courses, and participate in a rigorous quasi-experimental evaluation of their impact on student learning, attitudes, and retention. Through the training, collaboration, and research supported by this project, the project builds a community of chemical engineering educators who are committed to applying, refining, and improving ChemProV and the studio-based approach.

该项目建立在先前开发的名为ChemProV（化学过程可视化器）的脚手架软件环境之上。ChemProV为化学工程专业的学生提供动态生成的反馈，这些反馈是关于他们不断发展的工艺流程图和方程集的语法和语义正确性的，指导他们找到正确的解决方案。先前的评估表明，ChemProV在解决问题的准确性方面具有统计学上的显著优势，在任务上花费了更多的时间，并且可以将训练转移到无框架的解决问题的情况下。为了扩大其影响力，该项目将ChemProV与基于工作室的课程方法相结合，学生使用ChemProV构建材料和能量平衡问题的解决方案，并将他们的解决方案提交给同龄人和导师进行批判性的审查和讨论。该项目将ChemProV集成到在线同行评审环境中，从而使同行评审完全在线进行。10所新院校的化学工程讲师将在他们的入门材料/能量平衡课程中采用ChemProV和基于工作室的方法，并参与严格的准实验评估，以评估它们对学生学习、态度和保留的影响。通过本项目支持的培训、合作和研究，该项目建立了一个化学工程教育工作者社区，他们致力于应用、改进和改进ChemProV和基于工作室的方法。