Structured Retrieval Practice to Enhance Conceptual Learning

该项目支持一系列的实验研究，旨在测试改进的校准，可靠性，有效性和效率的原型工具（Quickscore，评分算法），便于检查结构化检索实践中学习生物学的基本概念。 本研究系统地考察和测试了结构化检索实践的具体特点，这些特点在不同条件下有可能促进概念学习。 该项目的工作假设建立并扩展了以前的研究结果，指出引导学生积极重建他们的知识可以增强对复杂科学材料的长期有意义的学习。 虽然正在为生物学入门课程开发，但结构化检索实践程序（软件包）旨在用于所有STEM学科，以加强对学科基本概念的学习。 该研究有助于对概念提取在概念学习中的作用的认识不断增长。 该系列研究在实验室条件下开始，并在大型入门课程中进行实地研究。 该项目的一个目的是将关于学习的基础研究成果转化为向学生提供一种基于研究的工具，以加强他们的概念学习。

The project supports a series of experimental research studies designed to test improvements in the calibration, reliability, validity, and efficiency of a proto-type tool (Quickscore, a scoring algorithm) that facilitates the examination of structured retrieval practice in learning fundamental concepts in biology. The research systematically examines and tests specific characteristics of structured retrieval practice that have the potential to enhance conceptual learning under different conditions. Building and expanding on previous findings, the project's working hypothesis states that guiding students to practice active reconstruction of their knowledge enhances long-term meaningful learning of complex science materials. While being developed for introductory biology courses, the Structured Retrieval Practice program (software package) is designed to be utilized in all STEM disciplines to enhance learning of fundamental concepts in a discipline. The research contibutes to a growing body of knowledge on the role of retrieval in concept learning. The series of research studies starts under laboratory conditions and concludes with a field-based research study in large introductory courses. An aim of the project is to translate findings from basic researach studies on learning into providing students with a research-based tool that enhances their conceptual learning.