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

TUES中央资源项目旨在帮助TUES PIs和其他致力于改善STEM教育的人员在STEM和STEM部门的本科生教师中更多地传播他们的工作。目前正在通过TUES申请者制定更慎重的战略来实现这一目标，旨在促进新的学习材料和教学战略的更广泛采用和改编。在TUES计划及其前身中已经进行了大量的工作，以根据当前对学生如何学习的科学理解来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教职员工可以在他们的课程中应用的良好效果的资源。人们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是如此。然而，越来越多的人意识到，从提高认识转向更好地适应有效的教学实践并不是很快的事情。该项目致力于通过四项核心活动改进TUES社区内的传播战略：1.收集和审查当前和以前的TUES/CCLI项目所使用的传播战略，以促进适应和实施STEM教育的创新发展。2.根据成功的经验证据和变革理论确定的因素，对传播策略进行分析和分类。3.促进对在项目规划中刻意设计传播策略和明确使用适当策略的重要性的讨论和认识。4.开发关于一系列可能的传播战略的可利用资源，以及确定和优化战略以提高影响的知识。这些资源是书面的“如何操作”指南、网络研讨会演示和个人咨询。智力价值：这个项目解决了STEM教育改革的一个核心问题。2008年的一次国家科学院研讨会得出结论，有效的STEM教育的最大收获可能来自于制定战略，鼓励教师和管理人员实施经过验证的教学战略。该项目正在TUES计划内推广使用这种传播策略。更广泛的影响：在TUES计划内制定的许多教学战略已被证明有助于所有学生学习，同时对妇女和少数群体的学习和留住产生了不成比例的积极影响，这些妇女和少数群体在STEM中的代表性历来不足。

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.