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

基本信息

批准号：
1726133
负责人：
Jeffrey Raker
金额：
$ 30.36万
依托单位：
University of South Florida
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=1726133&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Improving inorganic chemistry

项目摘要

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.

在本科生对科学的兴趣和改善科学学习是国家的重中之重。这两个结果都取决于大学科学教学的大规模变化，因此更多的讲师使用积极的学习策略来吸引和鼓励学生。该项目侧重于无机化学，这是大多数化学专业的第三年课程。该项目将使用以前的NSF支持开发的良好的，全国范围内的教职员工社区，以建立一个模块化框架，以促进无机化学课程中积极学习策略的使用。此外，将在社区网站上开发和共享基于无机化学研究的最新进展的新课程材料：www.ionicviper.org。在这项工作中，研究人员将研究讲师采用积极学习实践所需的支持类型和数量，以及这些变化对学生学习无机化学的影响。该项目有可能找到改善STEM教师教学的具体策略和一般原则，这些策略和一般原则可以应用于其他课程和学科。改进的课程和教学效率的影响还旨在增加具有成功化学家所需的工具和批判性思维技能的大学生的数量。该项目产生的知识将洞悉教师面临的挑战，因为他们采用了积极学习的教学策略，以及在教学实践中的必要水平和维持所必需的支持和维持教学实践的影响。该项目将有助于确定专业实践社区如何启动，启用和维持教师的变化。通过课堂观察，对学生工作的分析，学生的调查以及对教师的访谈，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基于证据的课堂实践来促进促进教师变革的证据。该项目的产品将包括：1）60个新的教学大纲和相关的课程材料，用于基础级别的无机化学课程，其中包括核心无机化学主题的内容覆盖范围，2）关于实践社区对教师变化的影响的新知识，以及3）改善了无机化学的学生学习。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（4）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Goals for the Undergraduate Instructional Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory When Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Are Implemented: A National Survey

实施基于课程的本科生研究经验时本科教学无机化学实验室的目标：全国调查

DOI：
10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00267
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Journal of Chemical Education
影响因子：
3
作者：
Connor, Megan C.;Pratt, Justin M.;Raker, Jeffrey R.
通讯作者：
Raker, Jeffrey 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.

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