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Fly High Your Math and Science Skills

飞翔你的数学和科学技能

基本信息

批准号：
1614249
负责人：
Chadia Affane Aji
金额：
$ 48.21万
依托单位：
Tuskegee University
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：
2016-09-01 至 2022-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614249&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Fly Your Math Science Skills

项目摘要

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiencesThis Tuskegee University ITEST project will use flight simulation as an active learning tool to motivate and engage 75 students in grades 7-8 in learning and reinforcing various math and science concepts. The project also involves training 15 middle school teachers to incorporate innovative, active, and experiential learning techniques while teaching STEM concepts. The project uses commercial-off-the-shelf flight simulation software that is low cost and has excellent fidelity of the physics of the phenomenon. The objectives of this project are: (a) to motivate and train middle school teachers to incorporate innovative, active, and experiential learning techniques while teaching STEM concepts; (b) to improve the overall ability of students in solving STEM problems; and, (c) to improve the attitudes of teachers and students towards teaching and learning STEM concepts.The project team, consisting of faculty from mathematics, aerospace engineering, mathematics education and an instructional designer (consultant), will develop learning modules for 7th and 8th grade students based on the Alabama Course of Study and Next Generation Science Standards using a flight simulation environment. They will design and implement intervention strategies for increasing student engagement and subsequently their understanding of selected math and science concepts through three components: (1) a one-week professional development workshop for the math and science teachers; (2) a one-week summer camp for grade 7-8 students; and (3) the implementation of the approach by the teachers in their classrooms. The overall goal is to determine if an innovative learning approach supported by popular technology impact the learning of mathematics and science concepts. The research questions are: (a) Does a hands-on activity that is a physics-based simulation and not a "twitch video game" engage middle school students in learning math and science concepts? (b) Does a summer program such as proposed in this project enhance the self-efficacy of middle school students in math and science? (c) Are female students as engaged as male students in a flight simulator based learning environment and (d) Do math and science teachers of a rural school district accept and implement a technology mediated pedagogy such as the flight simulation-based approach? The evaluation plan will use a logic model to assess project activities. The intervention will be evaluated through several pre-post instruments that will include the assessment of math and science content knowledge during the summer program, their attitudes towards math and science, and self-efficacy.

该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生的动机和能力的做法，通过参与实践现场经验，追求科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域的职业生涯，实验室/项目-这个塔斯基吉大学的ITEST项目将使用飞行模拟作为一种积极的学习工具，以激励和参与7-8年级的75名学生学习和加强各种数学和科学概念。该项目还涉及培训15名中学教师，在教授STEM概念的同时融入创新，主动和体验式学习技术。该项目使用商用现成的飞行模拟软件，成本低，对现象的物理特性具有极好的保真度。该项目的目标是：（a）激励和培训中学教师在教授STEM概念时融入创新、主动和体验式学习技术;（B）提高学生解决STEM问题的整体能力;以及（c）改善教师和学生对教与学STEM概念的态度。项目小组由数学，航空航天工程，数学教育和教学设计师（顾问），将开发学习模块的基础上，亚拉巴马学习课程和下一代科学标准，使用飞行模拟环境的7日和8年级的学生。他们将设计和实施干预策略，以提高学生的参与度，并随后通过三个组成部分对选定的数学和科学概念的理解：（1）为数学和科学教师举办为期一周的专业发展研讨会;（2）为7-8年级学生举办为期一周的夏令营;（3）教师在课堂上实施该方法。总体目标是确定由流行技术支持的创新学习方法是否会影响数学和科学概念的学习。研究问题是：（a）基于物理的模拟而不是“抽搐视频游戏”的动手活动是否能让中学生学习数学和科学概念？(b)本研究所提出的暑期课程是否能提高中学生在数学和科学方面的自我效能感？(c)在基于飞行模拟器的学习环境中，女学生是否与男学生一样投入;（d）农村学区的数学和科学教师是否接受并实施以技术为媒介的教学法，如基于飞行模拟的方法？评价计划将使用一个逻辑模型来评估项目活动。干预措施将通过几个前后工具进行评估，其中包括暑期课程期间对数学和科学内容知识的评估，他们对数学和科学的态度以及自我效能感。