EAPSI: Comparing pre-service Teacher Motivation in Teacher Preparation Programs in Singapore and the United States to Improve Learning Outcomes

该项目的目标是创建在线教师准备课程，其中包括使新加坡国立教育学院的教师准备课程成为国际排名项目的项目属性和课程。与早期儿童和特殊教育教授、移动学习专家Zachary Walker博士合作，现有的传统课程将被改编成可以在线完成的课件，而不是传统的课堂。在线课件将包括严格的内容和在线环境下学习社区的发展。研究人员将确定教学策略、课程设计以及学生与教授、学生、内容之间的关系，这些关系将增加和维持学生的学习动机。研究人员试图在不受传统高等教育项目限制的情况下，为教师准备增加高质量课程的可用性。该项目的目标是创建在线教师准备课程，其中包括使新加坡国立教育学院的教师准备课程排名世界第十的课程属性和课程。研究人员将与早期儿童和特殊教育教授、移动学习专家Zachary Walker博士合作，确定课程要素，包括教学策略、实践方法和动机因素。这些元素将用于设计严格的异步课件，并结合开发虚拟学习社区的策略。研究人员将测量学生动机的要素；具体来说，自我调节，自我效能和目标导向。研究人员还将根据研究项目期间开发的异步课件的管理情况，衡量每个机构在线学习的准备情况、连通性和学习成果。研究成果将提高教师备课课件的严谨性、质量和可用性。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会和新加坡国家研究基金会共同资助，隶属于东亚和太平洋暑期研究所项目，支持美国研究生进行暑期研究。

The goal of this project is to create online teacher preparation courses that include the program attributes and curricula that have made the teacher preparation program at the National Institute of Education in Singapore an internationally ranked program. In collaboration with Dr. Zachary Walker, professor of Early Childhood and Special Education and expert in mobile learning, existing traditional courses will be adapted into courseware that can be completed online instead of a traditional classroom. Online courseware will include rigorous content and development of a learning community in the online environment. The researchers will identify the instructional strategies, curriculum design, and student-to- professor, student, content relationships that will increase and sustain student motivation to learn. The researchers seek to increase availability of a high-quality curriculum for teacher preparation without the constraints of the traditional higher education program. The goal of this project is to create online teacher preparation courses that include the program attributes and curricula that have made the teacher preparation program at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, ranked 10th in the world. In collaboration with Dr. Zachary Walker, professor of Early Childhood and Special Education and expert in mobile learning, the researchers will identify curriculum elements including instructional strategy, practice method, and motivational factors. These elements will be used to design rigorous, asynchronous courseware combined with strategies to develop virtual learning communities. Researchers will measure elements of student motivation; specifically, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and goal orientation. Researchers will also measure readiness for online learning, connectedness, and learning outcomes at each institution following administration of the asynchronous courseware developed during the research program. The research outcomes will increase the rigor, quality, and availability of teacher preparation courseware.This award under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the National Research Foundation of Singapore.