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

这一i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力涉及一种可靠的在线评估教学工具，它提供了传统课程评估的替代方案。传统的教学评估工具被发现根据教师的性别或种族而产生不同的结果，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，这些工具提供易用性、无缝数据分析功能和教学数据存储。该工具最初将面向高等教育，特别是教学机构(例如，社区学院和专业工程学校)、大学教学中心或重视教学的地区。这一市场的自然延伸包括K-12学校；扩展和收费教育计划；高端在线专业计划；以教学和培训为主要重点的医院；以及企业培训计划。通常，这些环境中的专业人员需要在高水平的熟练程度下操作，并经常需要在客户、投资者和更广泛的社会中确认这种熟练程度。这个i-Corps项目建立在全球教学改进实时评估工具(G-Rate)的基础上，这是一个全面的在线评估工具，可以收集课程数据，并在易于使用的平台上以教学简档的形式分析这些数据。G-Rate由五个部分组成，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的要素已从大量课程的数据中得到验证，这些课程对学生在STEM课堂上的学习产生了积极影响。

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.