Does Active Learning Build Grit?

主动学习能培养毅力吗？

• 批准号: 1561623
• 负责人: John Chen
• 金额: $ 49.93万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University 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: 2016-06-15 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561623&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Does; Active; Learning; Build; Grit

Concerns about maintaining a strong, vibrant US economy and improving global competitiveness have led to efforts to increase the number and diversity of graduates in STEM majors. Attrition among engineering students is high in the first two years of college studies, and even higher among women and underrepresented minority students. There have been research investments made by multiple stakeholders that have invested in various strategies to improve the situation with many efforts focused on knowledge-acquisition aspects of student performance. In contrast there are research efforts to explore strategies that are more focused on motivation and self-regulatory aspects of student performance. There has been an increasing effort to investigate a construct that measures these aspects called grit. Grit, which is defined as unwavering interest in and perseverance for a long-term goal, is likely to be important to individuals trying to achieve the challenging, long-term goal of attaining an engineering degree.The proposed study is an active learning model that evaluates the impacts on grit character trait and its relations to student retention in engineering. It will be conducted with an ethnically and economically diverse sample of undergraduate engineering students. The team is using an experimental design approach in which response to the control groups is utilized to evaluate grit characteristics of growth mindset and build optimism. The research questions seek to investigate if active learning builds the character trait of grit among engineering students while they learn in a sequence of engineering mechanics courses and whether increased grit leads to other success outcomes such as retention in the major and progress toward degree. The intellectual merit includes the treatment approach to explore active learning impacts on student grit upon student retention and course sequencing. The broader impacts of research is that an active learning design model that can provide insights to the impact on student retention and completion of coursework and degree completion. Also there will be special focus on investigating women and underrepresented minorities who leave STEM majors at disproportionately higher rates in the STEM workforce. This project is supported by NSFs EHR Core Research Program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field.

对保持强劲，充满活力的美国经济和提高全球竞争力的担忧导致了增加STEM专业毕业生数量和多样性的努力。 工程专业学生的入学率在大学学习的头两年很高，在妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生中甚至更高。 多个利益攸关方进行了研究投资，投资于各种战略，以改善这种情况，其中许多努力集中在学生成绩的知识获取方面。与此相反，有研究努力探索更侧重于动机和自我调节方面的学生表现的策略。 有越来越多的努力来研究一个结构，衡量这些方面称为砂砾。 坚毅，这是定义为坚定不移的兴趣和毅力的长期目标，可能是重要的个人试图实现具有挑战性的，长期的目标，获得工程degree.The拟议的研究是一个积极的学习模式，评估坚毅的性格特质的影响和它的关系，学生保留在工程。 它将与本科工程专业学生的种族和经济多样化的样本进行。该团队正在使用一种实验设计方法，其中对对照组的反应被用来评估成长心态的砂砾特征并建立乐观情绪。 研究问题旨在调查主动学习是否建立了工程专业学生在工程力学课程中学习时的坚毅性格特征，以及增加的坚毅是否会导致其他成功的结果，如保留在专业和学位的进步。 智力价值包括治疗方法，探讨主动学习对学生毅力的影响，学生保留和课程排序。 研究的更广泛的影响是，一个积极的学习设计模型，可以提供洞察力的学生保留和完成课程和学位完成的影响。此外，还将特别关注调查妇女和代表性不足的少数民族，他们在STEM劳动力中以不成比例的高比例离开STEM专业。 该项目得到了NSF EHR核心研究计划的支持。 ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。