Research Initiation Grant: Increasing Student Engagement in Homework

研究启动补助金：提高学生对家庭作业的参与度

• 批准号: 1137013
• 负责人: Richard Bennett
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1137013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Grant; Increasing; Student

This engineering education research initiation grant seeks to understand how to increase student engagement in out-of-class learning assignments such as homework, and to develop effective methods to improve engagement. The project engages partners from engineering and the behavioral and learning sciences to gather initial data which on why students don't do out-of-class work and how to identify and engage these students. The broader significance and importance of this project is that by better understanding why students choose not to do out-of-class assignments it may be possible to improve how often they complete this work and the quality of work they do complete. Since much learning in engineering programs takes place outside of the classroom, this is an important issue for engineering workforce development. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.

这项工程教育研究启动助学金旨在了解如何提高学生对课外学习任务(如家庭作业)的参与度，并开发有效的方法来提高参与度。该项目邀请了工程学、行为科学和学习科学的合作伙伴来收集初始数据，这些数据关于为什么学生不做课外作业，以及如何识别和吸引这些学生。这个项目更广泛的意义和重要性是，通过更好地理解为什么学生选择不做课外作业，可能会提高他们完成这项作业的频率和完成作业的质量。由于工程项目中的许多学习都是在课堂之外进行的，这对工程人员的发展是一个重要的问题。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改造边境。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过创造对社会有用的结果和研究来实现的，这些成果和研究通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来实现。