WIDER: EAGER: GVSU Inventory of Instructional Practices

更广泛：渴望：GVSU 教学实践清单

• 批准号: 1256384
• 负责人: Scott Grissom
• 金额: $ 13.79万
• 依托单位: Grand Valley 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: 2012-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WIDER; EAGER; GVSU; Inventory; Instructional

Grand Valley State University (GVSU), a comprehensive master's university, is conducting an internal inventory of the current awareness and use of evidence-based instructional practices. The project includes three primary activities: 1) an extensive faculty survey, 2) targeted faculty interviews and 3) pilot programs to increase adoption of evidence-based practices. The faculty survey is informed by similar efforts reported in engineering, physics and geosciences undergraduate education. Questions are assessing faculty awareness of specific practices and how they learn about new teaching strategies. Demographic data are being collected to identify potential correlations: discipline, faculty rank, gender and part-time status. Face-to-face interviews include administrators, tenure-track faculty and part-time instructors that teach key STEM gateway courses. Targeting part-time instructors is a key component of the project because they may be less aware of evidence-based practices compared to their tenure-track colleagues. Student engagement pedagogies have been shown effective at improving retention of all undergraduates but especially women and first-generation college students. Increasing the awareness and adoption of these practices by university instructors could have a significant effect on STEM education. This project is providing important results about a growing population of part-time and adjunct faculty members, and applying the findings to implement programs to increase the use of evidence-based practices in undergraduate STEM education.

大峡谷州立大学（GVSU）是一所综合性硕士大学，正在对目前对循证教学实践的认识和使用进行内部盘点。 该项目包括三个主要活动：1）广泛的教师调查，2）有针对性的教师访谈和3）试点计划，以增加采用循证实践。教师调查是由类似的努力报告在工程，物理和地球科学本科教育。问题是评估教师对具体实践的认识，以及他们如何学习新的教学策略。 正在收集人口统计数据，以确定潜在的相关性：学科，教师职级，性别和兼职状态。 面对面的面试包括管理员，终身教职员工和兼职教师，教授关键的STEM网关课程。瞄准兼职教师是该项目的一个关键组成部分，因为与终身教职的同事相比，他们可能不太了解循证实践。 学生参与度方法已被证明有效地提高了所有本科生的保留率，尤其是女性和第一代大学生。提高大学教师对这些做法的认识和采用，可能会对STEM教育产生重大影响。该项目提供了关于兼职和兼职教师人数不断增长的重要结果，并将研究结果应用于实施计划，以增加本科STEM教育中循证实践的使用。