I-Corps: InkSurvey: A Web-based Digital Ink Assessment Tool

该项目建立在关于创新教学工具的基础研究之上，将该工具推向成为一个有吸引力的，可靠的，商业上可行的产品，可供全球教育工作者使用。 该项目确定了将工具过渡到更大市场的最佳路径。该工具已被证明对改善本科STEM课程和其他地方的学习有积极影响。凭借广泛的理论基础，技术支持的工具提供了揭示学生在努力掌握新材料时如何思考的一瞥。这些关于学生如何学习STEM概念和过程的见解可能对教育研究和课堂实践产生深远的影响。这一独立于学科的教学工具允许包容性的课堂交流，不考虑学生的性别、种族、残疾、年龄或技能水平，并鼓励原本不情愿的参与者更积极地参与课堂，即使入学人数较多（60人）。 通过实施体现学生学习方式的课堂实践，积极让学生参与更高层次的思维技能，并提供指导，使用该产品将有助于创造一支更好地迎接21世纪世纪挑战的劳动力队伍。

This project builds on fundamental research about an innovative pedagogical tool, moving that tool toward being an attractive, reliable, commercially-viable product available to educators worldwide. This project determines the optimal path for transitioning the tool to a greater market. The tool has been shown to have a positive effect on improving learning in undergraduate STEM courses and elsewhere. With broad theoretical foundations, technology-enabled tool provides revealing glimpses into how students think as they struggle to master new material. These insights into how students learn STEM concepts and processes could have far-reaching implications in educational research and classroom practices. This discipline-independent pedagogical tool allows inclusive classroom communication, blind to student gender, ethnicity, disability, age or skill level, and encourages otherwise reluctant participants to be more actively engaged in the classroom, even with larger (60) enrollments. By implementing classroom practices that embody what is known about how students learn, actively engaging students in higher-level thinking skills, and informing instruction, use of the product will help create a workforce better prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century.