Investigating Student Success Using Evidence-based Strategies (ISSUES)

使用循证策略调查学生的成功（问题）

• 批准号: 1347671
• 负责人: Kirsten Fleming
• 金额: $ 24.3万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB
• 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: 2013-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1347671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Student; Success; Using; Evidence

This Widening Implementation & Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms (WIDER) award is providing the College of Natural Sciences at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) with a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) that is identifying, studying, and piloting evidence-based teaching practices in this University's areas of greatest need. In light of rapidly increasing enrollments and declining budgets, CSUSB seeks to develop and implement new teaching methods that improve student learning, and retention.The decision to create a FLC is based on evidence that FLCs are a more effective form of faculty professional development than other approaches. The FLC is focusing on improving teaching in large classes, employing online instructional methods, promoting engaged learning activities, using co-curricular activities, working with diverse populations, implementing appropriate assessment techniques, and evaluating teaching. Eight specific gateway courses with large enrollments and particularly high failure rates are the initial focus of the project. Thereafter, the FLC is collecting data to identify the extent to which faculty in the college use evidence-based teaching practices. The FLC is studying best practices in strategic planning and organizational change in order to develop a model for how evidence-based teaching practices can be adopted throughout the college and university. The goal of this project is to spread the most promising practices throughout CSUSB, thus improving student achievement. CSUSB is a Hispanic Serving Institution; the College of Natural Sciences has a 50% Hispanic population, 22% other minority groups population, and 61% female population. The results of this project hold promise to benefit STEM programs throughout the state and the Nation, especially as CSUSB disseminates information about evidence-based teaching practices in STEM disciplines and shares lessons learned about facilitating change in teaching practices.

这一循证改革的扩大实施和示范 (WIDER) 奖项为加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校自然科学学院 (CSUSB) 提供了一个教师学习社区 (FLC)，该社区正在该大学最需要的领域识别、研究和试点循证教学实践。鉴于入学人数的迅速增加和预算的减少，CSUSB 寻求开发和实施新的教学方法，以提高学生的学习和保留率。创建 FLC 的决定基于以下证据：FLC 是比其他方法更有效的教师专业发展形式。 FLC 致力于改善大班教学、采用在线教学方法、促进参与式学习活动、利用课外活动、与不同人群合作、实施适当的评估技术以及评估教学。八门招生人数较多且失败率特别高的特定入门课程是该项目的最初重点。此后，FLC 正在收集数据，以确定学院教师使用循证教学实践的程度。 FLC 正在研究战略规划和组织变革方面的最佳实践，以便开发一个模型，以便在整个学院和大学中采用基于证据的教学实践。该项目的目标是在整个 CSUSB 中传播最有前途的实践，从而提高学生的成绩。 CSUSB 是一个西班牙裔服务机构；自然科学学院有50%的西班牙裔人口，22%的其他少数民族人口，61%的女性人口。该项目的结果有望使全州和全国的 STEM 项目受益，特别是当 CSUSB 传播有关 STEM 学科循证教学实践的信息并分享促进教学实践变革的经验教训时。