Collaboratively Developing Research-Based Curricular Materials to Improve Conceptual Understanding in Engineering Education

合作开发基于研究的课程材料以提高工程教育的概念理解

• 批准号: 1361417
• 负责人: Shane Brown
• 金额: $ 59.77万
• 依托单位: Oregon 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: 2013-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1361417&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaboratively; Developing; Research; Based; Curricular

This project is boosting the dissemination of findings from education research through collaboration of 20 educational researchers and engineering instructors at different colleges and universities in the Pacific Northwest, who are creating and implementing new approaches to teaching the engineering course Mechanics of Materials. Specifically, this project is focusing on deeper understanding of fundamental engineering concepts such as stress, strain, and equilibrium. The collaborators are working to discover and change students' preconceptions, which may be incorrect assumptions of how materials behave, based on their prior coursework and life experience. This project is addressing a real problem that engineering instructors are currently experiencing in their classrooms. Since the engineering educators have been involved in the project from the beginning, they are more likely to continue to use the curriculum materials they develop, and to encourage others to use them. This collaboration is also ensuring that the findings are being implemented in classrooms soon after they are discovered. More interactive, conceptually oriented classrooms, such as those being implemented in this project, will improve student learning and increase student interest and retention in engineering.

该项目通过太平洋西北地区不同学院和大学的20名教育研究人员和工程教员的合作，促进教育研究成果的传播，他们正在制定和实施新的材料力学工程课程教学方法。 具体来说，这个项目的重点是更深入地了解基本的工程概念，如应力，应变和平衡。合作者正在努力发现和改变学生的先入之见，这可能是不正确的假设材料的行为，根据他们以前的课程和生活经验。这个项目是解决一个真实的问题，工程教师目前正在经历在他们的教室。由于工程教育工作者从一开始就参与了该项目，他们更有可能继续使用他们开发的课程材料，并鼓励其他人使用它们。这种合作也确保了调查结果在发现后不久就能在教室里得到实施。更多的互动，概念为导向的教室，如那些正在实施的这个项目，将改善学生的学习，提高学生的兴趣和保留在工程。