RESEARCH INITIATION GRANT: Impact of Interactive Web-based Activities on Mechanics Self-Efficacy and Achievement

这项工程教育研究启动基金旨在了解在线学习如何影响学生的自我效能感和后来在工程学位课程中的成就。这项研究将调查不同类型的网络活动如何影响学生的学习和他们的自我效能感，或者他们能完成给定任务的信念。通过纵向研究，该研究将帮助教师了解如何有效地将网络学习整合到力学课程中。这个项目更广泛的意义和重要性将是为快速增长的在线学习领域的最佳实践提供信息。本研究将在力学入门课程中进行，这在大多数工程课程中都很常见，因此可以广泛地为实践提供信息。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养具有新能力和专业知识的工程人才来改变前沿。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，为教育政策和实践提供信息。

This engineering education research initiation grant seeks to understand how on-line learning affects students' self-efficacy and later achievement in an engineering degree program. The research will investigate how different types of web-based activities impact student learning and their self-efficacy, or belief that they can accomplish a given task. By looking longitudinally the study will help instructors understand how to effectively integrate web-based learning into mechanics courses.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to inform best practices in the rapidly growing area of on-line learning. The study will be conducted in an introductory mechanics course, common to most engineering programs, and thus can widely inform practice. 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.