I-Corps: Expansion of a Multidimensional Assessment Tool across Diverse Environments

I-Corps：跨不同环境的多维评估工具的扩展

• 批准号: 1644440
• 负责人: Monica Cox
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Ohio State 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 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Expansion; Multidimensional; Assessment; Tool

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project involves a reliable on-line assessment pedagogical tool that provides an alternative to traditional course evaluations. Traditional instruction evaluation tools have been found to have skewed results depending on the gender or ethnicity of the instructor, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. The project has the potential to add to the repertoire of commercially-viable assessment tools that offer ease of use, seamless data analysis features, and storage of pedagogical data. This tool will be marketed initially to higher education, particularly teaching institutions (e.g., community colleges and specialty engineering schools), university teaching and learning centers, or areas where teaching is emphasized. Natural extensions to this market include K-12 schools; extension and for-fee educational programs; high-end online professional programs; hospitals where teaching and training are primary emphasis; and corporate training programs. Typically, professionals in these environments are expected to operate at high levels of proficiency and often are expected to confirm this proficiency among clients, investors, and broader society.This I-Corps project builds on the Global Real-time Assessment Tool for Teaching Enhancement (G-RATE), an all-inclusive, online assessment tool that collects course data and analyzes this data in the form of pedagogical profiles in an easy-to-use platform. G-RATE consists of five components that collect course data real-time via direct observations, obtain instructor reflections of teaching and students' survey responses, and compiles data and profiles for researchers and administrators. Elements of the G-RATE have been validated from data across over a large number of courses with positive impacts on student learning in observed STEM classrooms.

这一I-Corps项目具有更广泛的影响/商业潜力，涉及一种可靠的在线评估教学工具，可替代传统的课程评估。传统的教学评估工具已被发现有偏差的结果取决于教师的性别或种族，特别是在科学，技术，工程和数学领域。该项目有可能增加商业上可行的评估工具，提供易用性，无缝的数据分析功能，并存储教学数据的剧目。这一工具将首先面向高等教育，特别是教学机构（例如，社区学院和专业工程学校）、大学教学中心或强调教学的地区。这个市场的自然延伸包括K-12学校;扩展和收费教育计划;高端在线专业课程;以教学和培训为主要重点的医院;以及企业培训计划。通常情况下，这些环境中的专业人士预计将以高水平的熟练程度运作，并经常被期望在客户，投资者和更广泛的社会中确认这种熟练程度。这个I-Corps项目建立在全球实时评估工具教学增强（G-RATE）的基础上，在线评估工具，收集课程数据，并在易于使用的平台上以教学概况的形式分析这些数据。G-RATE由五个组件组成，通过直接观察实时收集课程数据，获得教师对教学和学生调查反应的反映，并为研究人员和管理人员编制数据和档案。G-RATE的要素已经从大量课程的数据中得到验证，这些课程对学生在观察到的STEM教室中的学习产生了积极影响。