Structured Retrieval Practice to Enhance Conceptual Learning

结构化检索实践以增强概念学习

• 批准号: 1245476
• 负责人: Jeffrey Karpicke
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245476&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Structured; Retrieval; Practice; Enhance; Conceptual

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.

该项目支持一系列实验研究，旨在测试原型工具(QuickScore，一种评分算法)在校准、可靠性、有效性和效率方面的改进，该工具有助于检查在学习生物学基本概念方面的结构化检索实践。本研究系统地考察和测试了在不同条件下具有增强概念学习潜力的结构化检索练习的特定特征。在之前发现的基础上，该项目的工作假说指出，引导学生积极地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。结构化检索练习程序(软件包)是为生物学入门课程而开发的，旨在用于所有STEM学科，以加强对某一学科基本概念的学习。这项研究与越来越多的关于提取在概念学习中的作用的知识相吻合。该系列研究从实验室条件下开始，以大型入门课程中的实地研究结束。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以研究为基础的工具，以加强他们的概念学习。