Broadening Participation Research Project: Effects of Scaffolding Cyber-Enabled Collaborative Learning in Authentic STEM Education Settings

扩大参与研究项目：支架式网络协作学习在真实 STEM 教育环境中的影响

• 批准号: 1332591
• 负责人: Wei Zheng
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 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: 2013-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1332591&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Project; Effects

Jackson State University will investigate the effects of the proper levels of scaffolding for cyber-enabled collaborative learning on academic performance and skill development of African American STEM students and identify social and cognitive factors that can contribute to their achievement gains through cyber-enabled collaborative learning. The PIs will test the hypothesis that scaffolding cyber-enabled collaborative learning can promote shared construction of knowledge and regulation of learning processes for African American students and, thus, lead to improvement of their deeper understanding of important concepts and higher-order skill development.The project will expand the current knowledge about cyber-enabled collaborative learning by conducting the research in a STEM context, particularly examining the effects of instructional guides in an authentic STEM education setting for African American students. Prior research on collaborative learning was conducted mainly on K-12 students or liberal arts college students. The study could add new perspectives in instructional strategies for STEM faculty to increase student engagement and persistence and improve academic performance in STEM and non-STEM disciplines.

杰克逊州立大学将调查网络支持的协作学习的支架的适当水平对非洲裔美国STEM学生的学业成绩和技能发展的影响，并确定社会和认知因素，可以通过网络支持的协作学习，有助于他们的成就收益。 PI将测试这一假设，即支架网络支持的协作学习可以促进知识的共享建设和非洲裔美国学生学习过程的监管，从而提高他们对重要概念和高阶技能发展的更深入理解。该项目将通过在STEM背景下进行研究，特别是研究教学指南在真实的STEM教育环境中对非裔美国学生的影响。 以往关于合作学习的研究主要是针对K-12学生或文科大学生进行的。这项研究可以为STEM教师的教学策略增加新的视角，以提高学生的参与度和持久性，并提高STEM和非STEM学科的学习成绩。