Collaborative Research: Improving Inorganic Chemistry Education Through a Community-Developed Student-Centered Curriculum

合作研究：通过社区开发的以学生为中心的课程改善无机化学教育

• 批准号: 1726162
• 负责人: Joanne Stewart
• 金额: $ 58.28万
• 依托单位: Hope College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1726162&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Improving; Inorganic; Chemistry

Increasing undergraduate student interest in science and improving their learning of science is a national priority. Both outcomes hinge on large-scale changes in college science teaching, so that more instructors use active learning strategies that engage and encourage students. This project focuses on inorganic chemistry, a course that most chemistry majors take in their third year. The project will use a well-established, nation-wide community of faculty, developed with prior NSF support, to build a modular framework that promotes the use of active learning strategies in inorganic chemistry courses. In addition, new curricular materials based on the latest advances in inorganic chemistry research will be developed and shared on the community website: www.ionicviper.org. During this work, the investigators will study the type and amount of support that instructors need to adopt active learning practices, as well as the impact of those changes on student learning in inorganic chemistry. This project has the potential to find specific strategies and general principles for improving STEM faculty teaching, which could be applied to other courses and disciplines. The impact of the improved curriculum and teaching effectiveness also aims to increase the number of undergraduates who have the tools and critical thinking skills needed to be successful chemists.The knowledge generated by this project will provide insight into the challenges faculty face as they adopt active-learning teaching strategies and the level of the support necessary to effect and sustain change in teaching practices. This project will help identify how a professional community of practice can initiate, enable, and sustain faculty change. Through classroom observations, analysis of student work, surveys of students, and interviews with faculty, the project will generate data on how changes in the classroom affect student learning. It will contribute to the body of evidence for promoting faculty change by evaluating how to encourage the adoption of evidence-based classroom practices. The products of this project will include: 1) 60 new syllabi, with related course materials, for a foundation-level inorganic chemistry course with content coverage drawn from core inorganic chemistry topics, 2) new knowledge on the impact of communities of practice on faculty change, and 3) improved student learning in inorganic chemistry.

提高本科生对科学的兴趣，提高他们的科学学习水平是国家的优先事项。这两个结果都取决于大学科学教学的大规模变化，以便更多的教师使用积极的学习策略来吸引和鼓励学生。这个项目的重点是无机化学，这是大多数化学专业的学生在三年级选修的一门课程。该项目将使用一个成熟的、全国范围的教职员工社区，在之前的NSF支持下发展，以建立一个模块框架，促进在无机化学课程中使用积极的学习策略。此外，还将根据无机化学研究的最新进展开发新的课程材料，并在社区网站www.ION icviper.org上分享。在这项工作中，调查人员将研究教师采用积极学习做法所需的支持类型和数量，以及这些变化对学生在无机化学中学习的影响。本项目有可能找到改善STEM教师教学的具体策略和一般原则，并可应用于其他课程和学科。课程和教学效果改善的影响还旨在增加拥有成为成功的化学教师所需的工具和批判性思维技能的本科生的数量。这个项目产生的知识将使我们深入了解教师在采用主动学习教学策略时面临的挑战，以及在教学实践中实施和维持变革所需的支持水平。这个项目将帮助确定专业实践社区如何发起、启用和维持教师变革。通过课堂观察、对学生作业的分析、对学生的调查和对教师的采访，该项目将生成有关课堂变化如何影响学生学习的数据。它将通过评估如何鼓励采用循证课堂实践，为促进教师变革提供证据。这个项目的成果将包括：1)60个新的教学大纲，以及相关的课程材料，用于基础水平的无机化学课程，内容涵盖核心无机化学主题；2)关于实践社区对教师变化的影响的新知识；以及3)改善学生在无机化学方面的学习。

项目成果

A Community Springs to Action to Enable Virtual Laboratory Instruction

社区迅速采取行动以实现虚拟实验室教学

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00526
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Chemical Education
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Nataro, Chip;Johnson, Adam R.
• 通讯作者: Johnson, Adam R.

I’ve Been Given COPUS (Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM) Data on My Chemistry Class... Now What?

我在化学课上获得了 COPUS（本科生 STEM 课堂观察协议）数据...现在怎么办？

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b01066
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Chemical Education
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Reisner, Barbara A.;Pate, Cole L.;Kinkaid, Melissa M.;Paunovic, Daniel M.;Pratt, Justin M.;Stewart, Joanne L.;Raker, Jeffrey R.;Bentley, Anne K.;Lin, Shirley;Smith, Sheila R.
• 通讯作者: Smith, Sheila R.

Teaching from the primary inorganic literature: lessons from Richard Andersen

从初级无机文献中进行教学：理查德·安徒生的教训

• DOI: 10.1039/c8dt02669f
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Dalton Transactions
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Stewart, Joanne L.;Bentley, Anne K.;Johnson, Adam R.;Nataro, Chip;Reisner, Barbara A.;Watson, Lori A.
• 通讯作者: Watson, Lori A.

Measuring student motivation in foundation-level inorganic chemistry courses: a multi-institution study

衡量基础级无机化学课程学生的动机：多机构研究

• DOI: 10.1039/d2rp00199c
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Chemistry Education Research and Practice
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Pratt, Justin M.;Stewart, Joanne L.;Reisner, Barbara A.;Bentley, Anne K.;Lin, Shirley;Smith, Sheila R.;Raker, Jeffrey R.
• 通讯作者: Raker, Jeffrey R.

The Postsecondary Inorganic Chemistry Instructional Laboratory Curriculum: Results from a National Survey

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00092
• 发表时间: 2022-05-10
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Raker, Jeffrey R.;Pratt, Justin M.;Nataro, Chip
• 通讯作者: Nataro, Chip