Collaborative Research: Cognitive and Neural Indicators of School-based Improvements in Spatial Problem Solving

合作研究:校本空间问题解决能力改进的认知和神经指标

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    1420600
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 44.98万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2015-01-01 至 2019-12-31
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

This project, to be conducted by James Madison University, Georgetown University, and Northwestern University, will examine learning spatial thinking skills by high school students (who are studying geoscience), looking at educational outcomes as well as behavioral and neurological measures. There is already considerable evidence linking spatial ability and future STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) attainment. The project will focus on a high school course, the Geospatial Semester, that is designed to improve spatial thinking. The project will look for changes in patterns of brain activity as a result of the course, as well as relations among the educational, behavioral, and neurological measures. Prior research indicates that spatial training in the laboratory may reduce gender differences in performance; this project will seek to measure this effect in real world high school spatial learning, and to identify neural mechanisms that help explain how and why the gender gap closes. This project will advance the work of the EHR (Education & Human Resources) Directorate in studying the cognitive and neural basis of STEM learning.The overall goal of the project is to develop a mechanistic theory of change for spatial STEM education at the behavioral and neural levels. To achieve this goal, the project will measure a combination of outcomes: educational (e.g., coursework), behavioral (e.g., core spatial ability on standard tests of mental rotation and embedded figure identification, use of spatial language), and neurological (e.g., neural efficiency and grey matter volume in brain regions that support spatial thinking ability, interconnectivity networks across brain regions). Students in the spatially-based Geospatial Semester will be compared to peers receiving standard (non-spatially-based) STEM education in other advanced science courses. Neurological measures will be obtained by functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging performed at pre- and post-test time points. In general, the project will address the issue of brain plasticity in a high school STEM education context. The project will use machine learning techniques to discern neurological effects of spatial learning in both hypothesis-driven and data-driven ways, and examine gender differences in the effect of spatial STEM learning on cognition and the brain. Analyses will focus on relating changes across neural, behavioral, and educational levels toward an integrated understanding of the mechanisms that make spatial STEM learning effective.
该项目将由詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学、乔治城大学和西北大学共同实施,将考察高中生(正在学习地球科学的学生)学习空间思维技能,考察教育成果以及行为和神经学方面的指标。已经有相当多的证据表明,空间能力与未来的STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)成就有关。该项目将聚焦于一门旨在提高空间思维的高中课程——地理空间学期(Geospatial Semester)。该项目将寻找由于该课程而导致的大脑活动模式的变化,以及教育、行为和神经学测量之间的关系。先前的研究表明,实验室空间训练可能会减少表现的性别差异;这个项目将试图在现实世界的高中空间学习中测量这种影响,并确定有助于解释性别差距如何以及为什么缩小的神经机制。该项目将推动教育与人力资源局在研究STEM学习的认知和神经基础方面的工作。该项目的总体目标是在行为和神经层面为空间STEM教育发展一种变化的机制理论。为了实现这一目标,该项目将测量一系列结果:教育(例如,课程作业)、行为(例如,心理旋转和嵌入式图形识别标准测试中的核心空间能力、空间语言的使用)和神经学(例如,支持空间思维能力的大脑区域的神经效率和灰质体积、大脑区域之间的互联网络)。基于空间的地理空间学期的学生将与在其他高级科学课程中接受标准(非基于空间的)STEM教育的同龄人进行比较。神经测量将通过在测试前和测试后的时间点进行功能和结构磁共振成像来获得。总的来说,该项目将解决高中STEM教育背景下的大脑可塑性问题。该项目将使用机器学习技术,以假设驱动和数据驱动的方式来识别空间学习的神经效应,并研究空间STEM学习对认知和大脑影响的性别差异。分析将集中在神经、行为和教育层面的相关变化上,以综合理解使空间STEM学习有效的机制。

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Collaborative Research: Developing neural and behavioral measures to predict long-term STEM learning outcomes from a high-school spatial learning course
合作研究:开发神经和行为测量来预测高中空间学习课程的长期 STEM 学习成果
  • 批准号:
    2201306
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 44.98万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Collaborative Research: Adapting and Implementing a Geospatial High School Course in Career and Technical Education Clusters in Urban Settings
合作研究:在城市环境中职业和技术教育集群中调整和实施地理空间高中课程
  • 批准号:
    1759370
  • 财政年份:
    2018
  • 资助金额:
    $ 44.98万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Collaborative research: Neural and cognitive strengthening of conceptual knowledge and reasoning in classroom-based spatial education
合作研究:基于课堂的空间教育中概念知识和推理的神经和认知强化
  • 批准号:
    1661074
  • 财政年份:
    2017
  • 资助金额:
    $ 44.98万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Bridging the Valley: A STEP Ahead for STEM Majors
跨越山谷:STEM 专业向前迈出了一步
  • 批准号:
    0756838
  • 财政年份:
    2008
  • 资助金额:
    $ 44.98万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Project VISM -- Visualization in Science and Mathematics
VISM 项目——科学和数学可视化
  • 批准号:
    9819580
  • 财政年份:
    1999
  • 资助金额:
    $ 44.98万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant

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