WIDER: EAGER: A Self-Assessment of Evidence-based Instructional Practices and Outcomes in STEM-related Core Courses for STEM Majors and Non-Majors

更广泛：EAGER：针对 STEM 专业和非专业的 STEM 相关核心课程的循证教学实践和成果的自我评估

• 批准号: 1256529
• 负责人: Stephanie Adams
• 金额: $ 29.57万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 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 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256529&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WIDER; EAGER; Self; Assessment; Evidence

This project will engage five study components in sequence: 1. Conduct a needs assessment focused on (a) faculty members' use of evidenced-based instructional practices, and (b) faculty members' attitudes toward the use of evidence-based instructional practices to determine the current state of evidence-based instructional practices in STEM-related core courses for STEM majors and non-majors, 2. Carry out a phenomenological study of faculty members' justifications for instructional choices to better understand the rationale underlying the pedagogical approaches to the teaching of STEM-related core courses, 3. Conduct a curriculum mapping of the STEM-related core courses to document the focus of faculty members' instructional practices to better understand the relationship between the knowledge and skills taught within and across STEM-related core courses for STEM majors and non-majors, 4. Conduct an outcomes assessment of students' (a) learning of essential content, (b) complex cognition, and (c) epistemological belief to understand the practical outcomes of evidence-based instructional practices for STEM majors and non-majors in STEM-related core courses, 5. Design, develop, and implement a pilot program based on the findings of the needs assessment, phenomenological study, curriculum mapping, and outcomes assessments.

本项目将包括五个研究组成部分依次：1。开展一项需求评估，重点关注(a)教师使用循证教学实践的情况，以及(b)教师对使用循证教学实践的态度，以确定STEM专业和非专业STEM相关核心课程中循证教学实践的现状。对教师对教学选择的理由进行现象学研究，以更好地理解stem相关核心课程教学方法的基本原理。对STEM相关核心课程进行课程映射，记录教师教学实践的重点，以更好地理解STEM专业和非专业STEM相关核心课程内部和之间所教授的知识和技能之间的关系。对学生(a)基本内容的学习，(b)复杂认知，(c)认识论信念进行结果评估，以了解STEM相关核心课程中STEM专业和非STEM专业的循证教学实践的实际结果，5。根据需求评估、现象学研究、课程映射和结果评估的结果，设计、开发和实施一个试点项目。