WIDER: EAGER: Metrics to Shift Institutional Culture Toward Evidence-Based Instructional Practices

更广泛：渴望：将机构文化转向循证教学实践的指标

• 批准号: 1256221
• 负责人: Tobin Smith
• 金额: $ 29.46万
• 依托单位: Association of American Universities
• 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: 2013-05-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WIDER; EAGER; Metrics; Shift; Institutional

The Association of American Universities (AAU) has launched a five-year initiative with the overall goal of influencing the culture of STEM departments at AAU universities so that they will use sustainable, student-centered, evidence-based, active learning pedagogy in their classes, particularly at the freshman and sophomore levels. Reform of undergraduate STEM education has focused until now on change at the level of faculty and student activity or student support services, with much less attention to cultural change at the institutional level. The crucial first step in the AAU initiative, supported by this grant, is to gather baseline data to identify institutional objectives in improving STEM education, and articulate the problems these objectives seek to address. Specifically, this project is focusing on metrics for assessing institutional support of evidence-based instruction for those institutions making a public commitment to be part of a cultural shift to evidence-based instruction as a new norm. Metrics are needed that can be used both to assess institutional culture with respect to evidence-based teaching, and to measure the impact of actions taken to increase the extent of use of evidence-based teaching. The centerpiece of the AAU initiative is developing a framework to foster institutional commitment to effective STEM teaching and learning practices. This framework is being informed by a set of demonstration projects at AAU universities. These demonstration projects are being selected based on their commitment to STEM pedagogical reform and to represent the variety of challenges confronting universities in improving STEM undergraduate education. The project is assessing their effectiveness at reform efforts, which is providing benchmarks by which the success of reforms can be judged. Project activities will result in a more complete documentation of the status of current efforts to document pedagogy in undergraduate STEM courses and a template for baseline data collection for demonstration sites: both to guide their own projects and to share results with other institutions.

美国大学协会（AAU）发起了一项为期五年的倡议，其总体目标是影响AAU大学STEM部门的文化，以便他们在课堂上使用可持续的，以学生为中心的，以证据为基础的主动学习教学法，特别是在大一和大二的水平。迄今为止，本科STEM教育的改革一直侧重于教师和学生活动或学生支持服务层面的变革，而对机构层面的文化变革关注较少。AAU计划的关键第一步是收集基线数据，以确定改善STEM教育的机构目标，并阐明这些目标寻求解决的问题。具体而言，该项目的重点是评估机构对循证教学的支持的指标，这些机构公开承诺要成为向循证教学作为新规范的文化转变的一部分。需要有一个既可用于评估循证教学方面的机构文化，又可用于衡量为扩大循证教学的使用范围而采取的行动的影响的指标。AAU倡议的核心是制定一个框架，以促进机构对有效的STEM教学和学习实践的承诺。这一框架是由一套示范项目在AAU大学。这些示范项目的选择是基于他们对STEM教学改革的承诺，并代表大学在改善STEM本科教育方面面临的各种挑战。 该项目正在评估它们在改革努力中的效力，这将提供可据以判断改革成功与否的基准。 项目活动将导致更完整地记录本科STEM课程教学法的现状，并为示范点提供基线数据收集模板：既指导自己的项目，又与其他机构分享成果。