Improving Understandings of Student Engagement in STEM to Enhance Teacher

提高对学生参与 STEM 的理解以提高教师水平

• 批准号: 1255807
• 负责人: Barbara Schneider
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 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: 2012-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1255807&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Understandings; Student; Engagement; STEM

Researchers from the U.S. and from Finland are collaborating in this Science Across Virtual Institutions (SAVI) project to investigate how teachers use the information about student engagement they obtain through the use of mobile technology to make formative decisions about classroom instruction. The members of the U.S. team for this project are from Michigan State University while the members for the Finnish team are from the University of Helsinki. The project involves three face-to-face workshops, during the first of which the researchers identify how the current instruments and processes, including the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), are used to define and operationalize concepts of engagement to improve teacher practice. The second workshop finalizes the specifics of the design of the research and analysis plans, including interpretive frameworks that integrate the different methodologies currently used by the researchers, to conduct the research in classrooms in both the U.S. and Finland. The third workshop focuses on the discussion of the findings from the study and development of prospects for the usability and scalability of the tools investigated in the study. The research builds on an existing international postdoctoral research collaboration (Pathways to Adulthood) and extends that research to include the involvement of doctoral students, teacher educators and mentors as part of the research teams. The researchers are extending the approach used in prior work, the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and its related cell phone technology, to connect to the methodology used by the Finnish researchers. The researchers are constructing a theoretical base that improves knowledge around students' sense of self-efficacy and the impact of self-efficacy on learning. The cell phone technology holds real promise as an approach that teachers could use to gain richer information on students' perspectives. The researchers are extending the concept of engagement as it is currently characterized as "flow" to include measures of student interest, challenge and skill. Motivation as a factor in student achievement is of growing importance. There is evidence that engagement as self-efficacy is related to achievement in science, and determining ways to enhance motivation and to connect it to teacher actions is important. This project is contributing to the knowledge of how to measure engagement in the environment of teachers' work in the classroom. In addition, it supports cross-national collaboration and learning by developing a cadre of young researchers who actively contribute to this collaborative research agenda.

来自美国和芬兰的研究人员正在这个跨虚拟机构科学（SAVI）项目中合作，调查教师如何利用他们通过使用移动技术获得的学生参与信息，对课堂教学做出形成性决策。该项目的美国团队成员来自密歇根州立大学，而芬兰团队成员来自赫尔辛基大学。该项目包括三个面对面的研讨会，在第一个研讨会中，研究人员确定了如何使用现有的工具和过程，包括经验抽样方法（ESM），来定义和操作参与的概念，以改善教师实践。第二次研讨会最终确定了研究和分析计划设计的细节，包括整合研究人员目前使用的不同方法的解释框架，以便在美国和芬兰的课堂上进行研究。第三个研讨会的重点是讨论研究结果，以及研究中所调查的工具的可用性和可扩展性的前景。该研究建立在现有的国际博士后研究合作（成年之路）的基础上，并将该研究扩展到包括博士生、教师、教育工作者和导师作为研究团队的一部分的参与。研究人员正在扩展先前工作中使用的方法，即经验抽样方法（ESM）及其相关的手机技术，以连接芬兰研究人员使用的方法。研究人员正在构建一个理论基础，以提高对学生自我效能感和自我效能感对学习的影响的认识。手机技术是一种真正有希望的方法，教师可以用它来获得更多关于学生观点的信息。研究人员正在扩展参与的概念，因为它目前被描述为“流”，包括衡量学生的兴趣、挑战和技能。动机作为学生成绩的一个因素越来越重要。有证据表明，作为自我效能感的投入与科学成就有关，确定增强动机并将其与教师行动联系起来的方法很重要。该项目有助于了解如何衡量教师在课堂工作环境中的参与度。此外，它还通过培养一批积极参与这一合作研究议程的年轻研究人员来支持跨国合作和学习。