Collaborative Research: Increasing the Impact of TUES Projects through Effective Propagation Strategies: A How-To Guide for PIs

本中心资源项目旨在帮助东英理工大学的pi和其他从事STEM教育的人员在STEM和STEM部门的本科教师中传播他们的工作。为实现这一目标，东华理工大学的申请者正在制定更深思熟虑的策略，以促进更广泛地采用和适应新的学习材料和教学策略。根据目前对学生学习方式的科学理解，TUES项目及其前身已经开展了大量工作，以开发改进的教学方法和材料。这些材料和策略已经发展成为许多STEM教师可以在他们的课程中使用的资源。对这些资源的认识有所提高，一些材料和教学方法比其他材料和教学方法更有效的基本观念也有所提高。然而，越来越多的人认识到，从提高认识到提高对有效教学实践的适应并没有迅速发生。该项目致力于通过以下四项核心活动改善TUES社区的传播策略：收集和回顾当前和以前的TUES/CCLI项目使用的传播策略，以促进STEM教育创新发展的适应和实施。2. 根据成功的经验证据和变化理论确定的因素对传播策略进行分析和分类。3. 促进对有意设计传播策略的重要性的讨论和认识，并在项目规划中明确使用适当的策略。4. 开发关于一系列可能的传播战略的可获取资源以及确定和优化战略以增强影响的知识。这些资源包括书面的“如何做”指南、网络研讨会演示和个人咨询。智力价值：该项目解决了STEM教育改革中的一个核心问题。2008年美国国家学院研讨会得出结论，有效STEM教育的最大收益可能来自于鼓励教师和管理人员实施行之有效的教学策略的发展。这个项目正在推广在TUES项目中使用这种传播策略。更广泛的影响：在TUES项目中开发的许多教学策略已被证明可以帮助所有学生学习，同时对女性和少数民族的学习和保留产生了不成比例的积极影响，这些群体在STEM领域的代表性一直不足。

This TUES Central Resource Project is being designed to help TUES PIs and others engaged in improving STEM education to increase the propagation of their work among undergraduate instructors in STEM and STEM departments. This goal is being pursued through the creation of more deliberate strategies by TUES applicants designed to facilitate wider adoption and adaptation of new learning materials and teaching strategies. Substantial work has taken place within the TUES program and its predecessors to develop improved instructional methods and materials based on current scientific understanding of how students learn. These materials and strategies have developed into resources that many STEM faculty members could apply with good effect in their courses. Awareness of these resources has increased, as has the fundamental idea that some materials and instructional methods are more effective than others. Nevertheless, there is a growing realization that moving beyond increased awareness to increased adaption of effective teaching practices is not occurring apace. This project is working to improve propagation strategies within the TUES community through four core activities: 1. Collecting and reviewing propagation strategies used by current and former TUES/CCLI projects to promote adaptation and implementation of innovative developments in STEM education. 2. Analyzing and categorizing propagation strategies in terms of empirical evidence of success and factors identified by theories of change. 3. Promoting discussion about and awareness of the importance of deliberately designing propagation strategies and explicitly using appropriate strategies in project planning. 4. Developing accessible resources about a range of possible propagation strategies as well as knowledge to identify and optimize strategies to enhance impact. These resources are a written "how-to" guide, webinar presentations, and individual consultations. Intellectual Merit: This project addresses a core problem in STEM education reform. A 2008 National Academies Workshop concluded that the greatest gains in effective STEM education are likely to come from the development of strategies to encourage faculty and administrators to implement proven instructional strategies. This project is promoting the use of such propagation strategies within the TUES program. Broader Impacts: Many of the instructional strategies developed within the TUES program have been shown to help all students learn while having a disproportionately positive impact on the learning and retention of women and minorities, who are historically underrepresented in STEM.