The Spread of Inquiry-Based Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics: An Ecosystem Approach to Studying a Community of Educational Change

探究性学习在本科数学中的传播：研究教育变革共同体的生态系统方法

• 批准号: 1347669
• 负责人: Sandra Laursen
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1347669&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Spread; Inquiry; Based; Learning; Undergraduate

Grounded in the context and practice of an effort to reform the teaching and learning of college mathematics, this WIDER research project applies an ecosystems approach to conduct three interrelated studies that investigate the development, growth, and sustainability of an established mathematics education community whose members are proponents of inquiry-based learning (IBL Math). The research project identifies, clarifies, and iteratively examines the elements of a professional community that supports and sustains reform in higher education and investigates the relative impacts of top-down and bottom-up approaches to the diffusion of innovation. The research site is defined as a professional community of mathematicians who are dedicated to the reform of the teaching and learning of college mathematics based on the Socratic methods of R.L. Moore, a renowned topologist and teacher of mathematics. The historical study examines the evolution of the community, focusing the sources of the challenges it faces and promise for the future. A network analysis study investigates the linkages between people, university programs, and a private foundation that champions inquiry-based learning in college mathematics. An uptake study examines the use of inquiry-based learning among past participants in workshops, focusing on the long-term impact on individuals of the workshops and other forms of community support. The mixed-methods set of studies investigates two research questions: What human, structural, and intellectual elements emerge as important to the past development, current growth, and future sustainability of the IBL Math reform movement when it is viewed as a dynamic ecosystem of interlinked people and university programs? What useful lessons are offered to other communities engaged in STEM education reform?

在努力改革大学数学的教学和学习的背景和实践的基础上，这个WIDER研究项目采用生态系统的方法进行三个相互关联的研究，调查的发展，增长和可持续性的一个既定的数学教育社区，其成员是基于探究的学习（IBL数学）的支持者。 该研究项目确定，澄清，并反复检查支持和维持高等教育改革的专业社区的元素，并调查自上而下和自下而上的方法对创新传播的相对影响。 该研究网站被定义为一个专业的数学家谁是致力于改革的教学和学习的大学数学的基础上苏格拉底的方法。摩尔，著名拓扑学家和数学教师。历史研究考察了社区的演变，重点是它所面临的挑战和对未来的承诺的来源。 一项网络分析研究调查了人，大学课程和支持大学数学探究式学习的私人基金会之间的联系。 一项采用研究审查了以往参加讲习班的人使用探究式学习的情况，重点是讲习班和其他形式的社区支助对个人的长期影响。 研究的混合方法集调查两个研究问题：什么样的人，结构和智力元素出现重要的IBL数学改革运动的过去的发展，目前的增长和未来的可持续性时，它被视为一个动态的生态系统相互关联的人和大学课程？ 对其他从事STEM教育改革的社区提供了哪些有益的经验教训？