Project PLURIS: Purposeful Learning in Undergraduate Research and Independent Studies

PLURIS 项目：本科生研究和独立研究中的有目的学习

• 批准号: 1044460
• 负责人: Kathy Williams
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044460&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; PLURIS; Purposeful; Learning; Undergraduate

This project is creating a "brokering system" to mediate the interaction among faculty and students who want first to identify topics of mutual interest for independent study and/or research experiences, then to explore what questions to consider, and finally to negotiate a formal agreement on what the project would entail. The Purposeful Learning in Undergraduate Research and Independent Studies (PLURIS) system helps: i) to align individual student learning agendas with the goals of supervising faculty; ii) to clarify the intended student learning outcomes; iii) to monitor and document actual learning outcomes; and iv) to make public the learning achievements of the students. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its "community-based co-design" approach in which faculty and students are iteratively developing and testing components of this model system. This development approach carries into the way that PLURIS enables faculty and students to negotiate intended learning outcomes, reflecting the critical collaborative discourse essential to science. The project's broader impacts include: the modeling of collaboration among scientists, educators, and educational technology professionals that develops the science education expertise of STEM faculty, and the provision of a means for undergraduate, postdoctoral, and faculty researchers to think meta-cognitively about research experiences and learning in general. Furthermore, through its approach that links rich learning experiences of undergraduate independent research studies with specific measurable outcomes the project seeks to improve the cost-effectiveness and academic consistency of STEM independent study courses and research activities, so that larger and more diverse numbers of students may take advantage of these high-impact activities.

该项目正在创建一个“中介系统”，以调解教师和学生之间的互动，他们希望首先确定相互感兴趣的独立学习和/或研究经验的主题，然后探讨要考虑的问题，最后就项目需要达成正式协议。在本科研究和独立研究（PLURIS）系统的目的学习有助于：i）调整个别学生的学习议程与督导教师的目标; ii）澄清预期的学生学习成果; iii）监测和记录实际的学习成果;和iv）公布学生的学习成果。该项目的智力价值在于其“基于社区的共同设计”的方法，在这种方法中，教师和学生正在反复开发和测试这个模型系统的组件。这种发展方式进行到PLURIS使教师和学生能够谈判预期的学习成果的方式，反映了关键的合作话语科学必不可少的。该项目的更广泛的影响包括：科学家，教育工作者和教育技术专业人员之间的合作建模，发展STEM教师的科学教育专业知识，并为本科生，博士后和教师研究人员提供一种手段，以元认知方式思考研究经验和学习。此外，通过将本科生独立研究学习的丰富学习经验与具体可衡量成果联系起来的方法，该项目旨在提高STEM独立学习课程和研究活动的成本效益和学术一致性，以便更多和更多样化的学生可以利用这些高影响力的活动。