COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Learning Progressions on the Development of Principle-based Reasoning in Undergraduate Physiology (LeaP UP)

合作研究：本科生生理学中基于原理的推理发展的学习进展（LeaP UP）

• 批准号: 1660643
• 负责人: Kevin Haudek
• 金额: $ 48.6万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1660643&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Learning; Progressions; Development

The complex societal problems of increasing agricultural production to meet the needs of 9 billion people by 2050, and caring for an aging population with increasingly more complex neurological and cardiovascular health issues require future scientists, physicians, and allied health professionals to develop expertise in organismal physiology. In physiology, as in other disciplines, becoming an expert in a field requires the abilities to recognize, understand and effectively reason using the principles of the discipline. During their college careers, science students often rely on rote memorization rather than principle-based reasoning to solve problems, and this leads to context-bound thinking that fails to build robust understandings. Such students can, for example, list the steps involved in muscle contraction, but cannot predict what will happen when a mutation is introduced in a muscle protein. This project will develop a "learning progression" to document how college students can develop more and more sophisticated principle-based reasoning over time to understand the physiology of animals and plants in both introductory biology and anatomy and physiology courses. Based on this learning progression, the project team will also develop open-ended assessment questions that can be scored via computer. Collectively, these tools will have the potential to transform how college students learn physiology, and to significantly enhance the quality of their resulting understanding and ability to solve related problems. The project, entitled Learning Progressions on the Development of Principle-based Reasoning in Undergraduate Physiology (LeaP UP), is supported by the Education and Human Resources Core Research Program, which funds fundamental research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.The LeaP UP project will develop a learning progression that describes how undergraduate students develop principle-based reasoning in the use of flux (flow down gradients) and mass balance (Conservation of Mass) in physiology. The learning progression will then guide the creation of constructed response assessments and associated computer scoring models that instructors can use to determine where their students are along the spectrum of understanding. The project team will capitalize on cutting edge advances in natural language processing and text analysis to create computer programs to accurately predict how experts would score students' responses to the conceptual constructed-response assessments. These automated scoring methods will rapidly score responses from large numbers of college students nationwide and allow the investigators to map national trends in students levels of understanding of students as they move through their undergraduate Biology and pre-Allied Health curricula at community colleges to large research universities. Thus, the tools developed will provide an organizing framework for the future redesign of undergraduate physiology curricula.

到2050年，增加农业产量以满足90亿人的需求，以及照顾日益复杂的神经和心血管健康问题的老龄化人口，这些复杂的社会问题需要未来的科学家，医生和专职卫生专业人员发展生物生理学方面的专业知识。在生理学中，就像在其他学科中一样，成为一个领域的专家需要能够识别，理解和有效地使用该学科的原理进行推理。在他们的大学生涯中，科学专业的学生经常依靠死记硬背而不是基于原理的推理来解决问题，这导致了上下文限制的思维，无法建立强大的理解。例如，这些学生可以列出肌肉收缩的步骤，但不能预测当肌肉蛋白质中引入突变时会发生什么。这个项目将开发一个“学习过程”，记录大学生如何随着时间的推移发展越来越复杂的基于原理的推理，以了解动物和植物的生理学，无论是生物学入门和解剖学和生理学课程。在此学习进展的基础上，项目团队还将开发可通过计算机评分的开放式评估问题。总的来说，这些工具将有可能改变大学生学习生理学的方式，并显着提高他们对相关问题的理解和解决能力的质量。该项目名为“在本科生理学中发展基于原则的推理的学习进展”（Leap UP），由教育和人力资源核心研究计划支持，该计划资助STEM学习和学习环境的基础研究，扩大STEM的参与，和STEM劳动力发展。Leap UP项目将开发一个学习过程，描述本科生如何发展原则-在生理学中使用通量（向下梯度）和质量平衡（质量守恒）的基础推理。然后，学习进展将指导构建反应评估和相关计算机评分模型的创建，教师可以使用这些模型来确定学生在理解范围内的沿着。该项目团队将利用自然语言处理和文本分析方面的最新进展，创建计算机程序，以准确预测专家如何对学生对概念构建反应评估的反应进行评分。这些自动评分方法将迅速从全国范围内大量的大学生的反应评分，并允许调查人员绘制学生的理解水平的全国趋势，因为他们通过他们的本科生物学和联合健康课程在社区学院移动到大型研究型大学。因此，开发的工具将提供一个组织框架，为未来重新设计的本科生理学课程。

项目成果

Deconstruction of Holistic Rubrics into Analytic Rubrics for Large-Scale Assessments of Students’ Reasoning of Complex Science Concepts.

将整体评分标准解构为用于大规模学生评估的分析评分标准——复杂科学概念的推理。

• DOI: 10.7275/9h7f-mp76
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Practical assessment research evaluation
• 作者: Jescovitch, L. N.;Scott, E. E.;Cerchiara, J. A.;Doherty, J. H.;Wenderoth, M. P.;Merrill, J. E.;Urban-Lurain, M.;Haudek, K. C.
• 通讯作者: Haudek, K. C.

Covariational reasoning and item context affect language in undergraduate mass balance written explanations

• DOI: 10.1152/advan.00156.2022
• 发表时间: 2023-12-24
• 期刊: ADVANCES IN PHYSIOLOGY EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Shiroda，Megan;Doherty，Jennifer H.;Haudek，Kevin C.
• 通讯作者: Haudek，Kevin C.

Ecological diversity methods improve quantitative examination of student language in short constructed responses in STEM

生态多样性方法改善了 STEM 中简短回答中学生语言的定量检查

• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.989836
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Frontiers in Education
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Shiroda, Megan;Fleming, Michael P.;Haudek, Kevin C.
• 通讯作者: Haudek, Kevin C.

Comparison of Machine Learning Performance Using Analytic and Holistic Coding Approaches Across Constructed Response Assessments Aligned to a Science Learning Progression

使用分析和整体编码方法在与科学学习进展相一致的构建响应评估中比较机器学习性能

• DOI: 10.1007/s10956-020-09858-0
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Science Education and Technology
• 影响因子: 4.4
• 作者: Jescovitch, Lauren N.;Scott, Emily E.;Cerchiara, Jack A.;Merrill, John;Urban-Lurain, Mark;Doherty, Jennifer H.;Haudek, Kevin C.
• 通讯作者: Haudek, Kevin C.

A new assessment to monitor student performance in introductory neurophysiology: Electrochemical Gradients Assessment Device

监测学生神经生理学入门表现的新评估：电化学梯度评估装置

• DOI: 10.1152/advan.00209.2018
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Advances in Physiology Education
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Cerchiara, Jack A.;Kim, Kerry J.;Meir, Eli;Wenderoth, Mary Pat;Doherty, Jennifer H.
• 通讯作者: Doherty, Jennifer H.