REU Site: STEM CATS: Creating Academic Teacher Scholars in STEM Education

REU 网站：STEM CATS：在 STEM 教育中培养学术教师学者

• 批准号: 1560013
• 负责人: Molly Fisher
• 金额: $ 36.07万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; STEM; CATS; Creating

The goal of this University of Kentucky REU project is to prepare STEM teachers by fostering the development of their higher order thinking skills and deep conceptual STEM understanding based on research-confirmed best practices that they, themselves will investigate. The project will expose 24 pre-service K-12 STEM teachers to timely problems involving STEM teaching and learning through original research conducted with eight successful faculty mentors affiliated with University of Kentucky's STEM Education Department. The project will also provide experiences that may increase the interest of students from Bluegrass Community and Technical College in becoming K-12 STEM teachers.During the project pre-service STEM teachers will participate in authentic inquiry into local educational issues with national and international implications such as spatial recognition, informal learning, and mathematics experiences and conceptions. The project will help the students to cultivate an appreciation of the interplay between society and education and research, especially concerning the multiple transformative means of fostering STEM literacy across diverse learner populations. Students will be exposed to hands-on application of the social-scientific methods that they could eventually practice in their own STEM classrooms. Students will also be introduced to broader issues impacting these methods such as how ethics affect testing of certain hypotheses and how social biases might influence research with respect to which methodologies are used and how results are reported. Formative information will be collected each semester from all involved to monitor progress toward goals and guide program improvements. Summative information will be comprised of longitudinal outcomes data analysis to determine overall impact. While quantitative data will be used to discover correlations between students' sense of efficacy and likelihood of continuing to research (the Research Self-efficacy Scale and the NSF Biology's Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment), semi-structured interviews will be conducted to discover how participants, who vary by a variety of factors, respond individually to the project.

这个肯塔基州REU项目的大学的目标是通过培养他们的高阶思维技能和基于研究确认的最佳实践的深层概念STEM理解的发展，准备STEM教师，他们自己将调查。 该项目将通过与肯塔基州大学STEM教育系附属的八位成功的教师导师进行的原创研究，使24名职前K-12 STEM教师及时了解STEM教学和学习方面的问题。 该项目还将提供经验，可能会增加来自蓝草社区和技术学院的学生成为K-12 STEM教师的兴趣。在项目期间，职前STEM教师将参与对具有国家和国际影响的当地教育问题的真实调查，如空间识别，非正式学习，数学经验和概念。该项目将帮助学生培养对社会与教育和研究之间相互作用的认识，特别是关于在不同学习人群中培养STEM素养的多种变革手段。 学生将接触到社会科学方法的实践应用，他们最终可以在自己的STEM教室中实践。 学生还将被介绍到影响这些方法的更广泛的问题，如道德如何影响某些假设的测试，以及社会偏见如何影响研究，涉及使用哪些方法以及如何报告结果。 每学期将从所有参与者那里收集形成性信息，以监测目标的进展并指导计划的改进。 总结性信息将包括纵向结局数据分析，以确定总体影响。 虽然定量数据将用于发现学生的效能感和继续研究的可能性之间的相关性（研究自我效能量表和NSF生物学的本科生研究学生自我评估），半结构化的访谈将进行，以发现参与者，谁因各种因素而异，单独响应该项目。