Collaborative Research: From knowledge consumers to knowledge producers: A scalable experiential learning approach for psychology and related disciplines

STEM教育提供技术培训和认知技能的发展，例如设计实验，测试假设和分析数据。 虽然传统的STEM培训对于培养高技能的技术劳动力至关重要，但通过这种培训培养的认知技能几乎对所有类型的职业都有好处。 为了向心理学本科生提供认知技能培训，他们通常不会接受这种类型的教育，该项目将开发一个名为TELLab的计算机程序，允许心理学学生设计实验并使用互联网收集数据。 使用这个计划，学生将有机会亲身体验做科学的挑战，学习技能和概念，最重要的是，制定和解决他们个人感兴趣的问题。为此，该提案有三个广泛定义的目标：（1）扩大和成熟的电信实验室，使其能够处理数十万用户，在无数的教室，（2）在不同的环境中评估基于TELLlab的教学法，包括评估非STEM学生的STEM能力，特别是那些在本科心理学课程中的学生，以及（3）推进努力，在全国范围内创建一个由教师和学生组成的开源社区，以发展和维持集体专业知识。 通过在各种机构的合作伙伴关系，TELLab模块将开发和部署在各种心理学课程。 这些模块将允许学生设计实验和测试假设，沉浸在STEM教育的核心认知技能中。 课程教师和参与学生将进行评估，以确定和评估影响学生的经验和学习的因素。

STEM education provides both technical training and the development of cognitive skills, such as designing experiments, testing hypotheses, and analyzing data. While traditional STEM training is essential for developing a highly skilled technical workforce, the cognitive skills developed through this training are beneficial in almost every type of career. To provide cognitive skills training to undergraduates in psychology, who typically do not receive this type of education, this project will develop a computer program, named TELLab, that allows psychology students to design experiments and gather data using the internet. Using this program, students will have the opportunity to experience first hand the challenges of doing science, learning skills and concepts, and most importantly, formulating and solving problems of personal interest to them.To this end, the proposal has three broadly defined goals: (1) Up-scaling and maturation of TELLab, so that it can handle hundreds of thousands of users, in countless numbers of classrooms, with students at all levels - all at the same time, (2) evaluation of TELLlab-based pedagogy in diverse settings, including evaluating STEM competencies in non-STEM students, particularly those in undergraduate psychology classes, and (3) advancing the effort to create an open source community of faculty and students across the nation to develop and sustain collective expertise. Through a collaborative partnership across a variety of institutions, TELLab modules will be developed and deployed in a variety of psychology courses. These modules will allow students to design experiments and test hypotheses, providing immersion in the cognitive skills that are at the core of STEM education. Course instructors and participating students will be evaluated to identify and assess the factors that influence student experiences and learning.