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

该 TUES 中央资源项目旨在帮助 TUES PI 和其他参与改善 STEM 教育的人员，以增加他们的工作在 STEM 和 STEM 系的本科教师中的传播。 TUES 申请者正在通过制定更加深思熟虑的策略来实现这一目标，这些策略旨在促进新学习材料和教学策略的更广泛采用和适应。 TUES 项目及其前身已经开展了大量工作，根据当前对学生学习方式的科学理解，开发改进的教学方法和材料。这些材料和策略已发展成为许多 STEM 教师可以在课程中应用并取得良好效果的资源。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理念也得到了提高。 然而，人们越来越认识到，从提高认识到提高有效教学实践的适应性并没有很快发生。 该项目致力于通过四项核心活动改进 TUES 社区内的传播策略：1。收集和审查当前和以前的 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革理论确定的因素对传播策略进行分析和分类。 3. 促进对有意识地设计传播策略和在项目规划中明确使用适当策略的重要性的讨论和认识。4．开发有关一系列可能的传播策略的可用资源以及知识，以识别和优化策略以增强影响力。这些资源包括书面“操作方法”指南、网络研讨会演示和个人咨询。 智力优势：该项目解决了 STEM 教育改革的核心问题。 2008 年国家科学院研讨会的结论是，有效 STEM 教育的最大收益可能来自于制定鼓励教师和管理人员实施行之有效的教学策略的策略。该项目正在 TUES 计划中推广使用此类传播策略。 更广泛的影响：TUES 计划中制定的许多教学策略已被证明可以帮助所有学生学习，同时对历史上在 STEM 中代表性不足的女性和少数族裔的学习和保留产生不成比例的积极影响。

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.