Collaborative Research: Deep Roots: Wide-Spread Implementation of Community-Driven Evidence-Based Pedagogy

合作研究：根深蒂固：社区驱动的循证教育学的广泛实施

• 批准号: 1525345
• 负责人: JoAnn Browning
• 金额: $ 22.31万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 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: 2015-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525345&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Deep; Roots; Wide

This multi-university institutional transformation project, led by the University of Kansas, will both implement and study a model to improve STEM education within seven universities. The ultimate goal is to propagate widespread adoption of evidence-based instructional methods in order to improve undergraduate STEM learning and educational outcomes for both STEM and non-STEM students. Five American institutions funded by this grant, as well as two unfunded Canadian institutions, will test local adaptations of the model on their own campuses. The model is derived from research on institutional change and quality improvement, and builds on an extensive successful initiative (known as the Science Education Initiative, SEI) at two of the partner institutions the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of British Columbia. The core approach is to support "embedded expertise" in STEM departments to catalyze course transformation and build intellectual communities within and across institutions, in order to share in the development of course reform. The other participating institutions are the University of Texas at San Antonio, Indiana University, the University of California, Davis, and Queens University in Canada. The model of transformation involves embedding STEM education experts (specially prepared postdoctoral scholars or faculty leaders) in departments. These experts will collaborate with department faculty to guide and support the implementation of research-based educational practices in STEM courses. This extension of the SEI model supports change with a smaller infusion of resources by developing communities of scholars around course transformation across departments and institutions. These communities broaden the impact of the embedded experts by expanding support and opportunities for reflective practice for faculty, contributing to the development of a shared vision, and encouraging a critical mass of faculty engagement within departments needed to produce meaningful changes in the teaching environment. Seven research universities that have been actively collaborating through the Bay View Alliance will each implement and evaluate variations of this model on their own campuses. The network serves two functions: 1) to build a community for intellectual exchange and collaboration on evidence-based teaching as a key component of the intervention itself, and 2) to permit a test of whether the intervention model can be localized to different institutional contexts to yield widespread STEM reform. A combination of quantitative and case study evaluation methods are planned to identify the various dimensions and conditions that signal initial readiness, successful approaches, and sustainable outcomes in participating institutions.

这个由堪萨斯大学牵头的多大学机构转型项目将在七所大学内实施和研究改善 STEM 教育的模型。最终目标是广泛采用基于证据的教学方法，以改善本科生 STEM 学习以及 STEM 和非 STEM 学生的教育成果。由这笔赠款资助的五家美国机构以及两所未获得资助的加拿大机构将在自己的校园内测试该模型的本地适应性。该模型源自对制度变革和质量改进的研究，并建立在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校和不列颠哥伦比亚大学这两个合作机构广泛成功的举措（称为科学教育计划，SEI）的基础上。核心做法是支持STEM院系的“嵌入式专业知识”，以促进课程转型，并在机构内部和跨机构之间建立知识社区，以分享课程改革的发展。 其他参与机构包括德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校、印第安纳大学、加州大学戴维斯分校和加拿大皇后大学。 转型模式包括在院系中嵌入STEM教育专家（专门培养的博士后学者或院系带头人）。这些专家将与院系教师合作，指导和支持 STEM 课程中基于研究的教育实践的实施。 SEI 模型的这种扩展通过围绕跨部门和机构的课程转型发展学者社区，以较少的资源注入支持变革。这些社区通过扩大对教师反思实践的支持和机会，促进共同愿景的发展，并鼓励大量教师参与在教学环境中产生有意义的变化所需的院系，扩大了嵌入式专家的影响力。通过湾景联盟积极合作的七所研究型大学将在各自的校园中实施和评估该模型的变体。该网络有两个功能：1）建立一个基于证据的教学知识交流和协作社区，作为干预本身的关键组成部分；2）允许测试干预模型是否可以本地化到不同的机构环境，以产生广泛的 STEM 改革。 计划采用定量和案例研究评估方法相结合，以确定参与机构的初步准备、成功方法和可持续成果的各种维度和条件。