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Collaborative Research: Neurocognitive Studies to Enhance STEM Education: Divergent Thinking in Female and Male Engineering Students

合作研究：加强 STEM 教育的神经认知研究：男女工科学生的发散思维

基本信息

批准号：
1726811
负责人：
Janet van Hell
金额：
$ 29.71万
依托单位：
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
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 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1726811&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Neurocognitive Studies Enhance

项目摘要

Engineers provide creative and novel solutions for a rapidly-changing technology-oriented world. Creative problem solving, or divergent thinking, is key to the success of these STEM professionals. Industrial and academic leaders have long expressed concerns that traditional engineering programs teach students to solve well-defined analytical problems, but do not adequately develop creative or divergent thinking skills. However, little is known about the factors that support divergent thinking. In this project, researchers from engineering and psychology will work together to understand and nurture divergent thinking skills in undergraduate engineering students. The project will involve two phases: an examination of the brain activity that occurs during creative problem solving, and the development of instructional materials to encourage divergent thinking in students. This project will increase understanding of the neurocognitive basis of divergent thinking in a STEM setting. It will also provide educational resources that enhance divergent thinking in future engineers and other STEM professionals, which is essential for the innovation economy of the 21st century.This interdisciplinary project will integrate strategies and techniques from engineering, neuroscience, and psychology to examine the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying divergent thinking and ideation in engineering students. In the first phase of the project, electroencephalography (EEG) techniques that measure changes in brain activity patterns will be used to study engineering students as they perform design tasks. Specifically, participants will perform divergent-thinking tasks while fine-grained temporal resolution EEG is recorded to assess task-related changes in spectral power in the alpha frequency band. Because engineers often work in teams, the researchers will specifically examine how divergent thinking performance in female and male engineering students is affected by group dynamics. Particularly explored will be team members' feedback that impinges on students' gender, with a specific focus on the impact of gender stereotype threat or boost and the gender of a high-authority individual giving feedback on students' divergent thinking performance. In the second phase of the project, results of the EEG studies will be translated into educational principles that foster divergent thinking. Based on these principles, instructional practices will be implemented and tested at two different universities in undergraduate engineering courses that incorporate divergent thinking and design ideation skills in sophomore- and senior-level students. The focus on gender diversity will also contribute essential information for enhancing the education of diverse engineering student populations. The project will disseminate outcomes and materials through the project website, professional development workshops for broad audiences, and publications.

工程师为瞬息万变的技术世界提供创造性和新颖的解决方案。创造性地解决问题或发散性思维是这些 STEM 专业人士成功的关键。工业和学术领袖长期以来一直担心传统的工程课程教学生解决明确的分析问题，但没有充分培养创造性或发散性思维技能。然而，人们对支持发散思维的因素知之甚少。在这个项目中，来自工程和心理学的研究人员将共同努力理解和培养本科工程生的发散思维能力。该项目将涉及两个阶段：检查创造性解决问题过程中发生的大脑活动，以及开发教学材料以鼓励学生发散思维。该项目将增进对 STEM 环境中发散思维的神经认知基础的理解。它还将提供教育资源，增强未来工程师和其他 STEM 专业人员的发散思维，这对于 21 世纪的创新经济至关重要。这个跨学科项目将整合工程学、神经科学和心理学的策略和技术，以研究工程学生发散思维和构想背后的神经和认知机制。在该项目的第一阶段，测量大脑活动模式变化的脑电图（EEG）技术将用于研究工程学生执行设计任务时的情况。具体来说，参与者将执行发散思维任务，同时记录细粒度时间分辨率脑电图，以评估与任务相关的 α 频段频谱功率变化。由于工程师经常在团队中工作，研究人员将专门研究女性和男性工科学生的发散思维表现如何受到群体动态的影响。特别探讨的是团队成员对学生性别的反馈，特别关注性别刻板印象威胁或增强的影响，以及对学生发散性思维表现提供反馈的高权威个人的性别。在该项目的第二阶段，脑电图研究的结果将转化为培养发散思维的教育原则。基于这些原则，教学实践将在两所不同的大学的本科工程课程中实施和测试，其中包含大二和高年级学生的发散思维和设计构思技能。对性别多样性的关注也将为加强多样化工程学生群体的教育提供重要信息。该项目将通过项目网站、面向广大受众的专业发展研讨会和出版物传播成果和材料。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（5）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

How stereotype threat affects the brain dynamics of creative thinking in female students

刻板印象威胁如何影响女学生创造性思维的大脑动态

DOI：
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108306
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Neuropsychologia
影响因子：
2.6
作者：
Jończyk, Rafał;Dickson, Danielle S.;Bel-Bahar, Tarik S.;Kremer, Gül E.;Siddique, Zahed;van Hell, Janet G.
通讯作者：
van Hell, Janet G.

Does stereotype threat affect creative thinking in female engineering students? A behavioural and neurocognitive study

刻板印象威胁会影响女工科学生的创造性思维吗？

DOI：
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
Proceedings of the 127th Annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
影响因子：
0
作者：
Jonczyk, R;Liu, Y;Dickson, D;Okudan Kremer, G E;Siddique, Z;Van Hell, J G.
通讯作者：
Van Hell, J G.

Investigation of a professor’s feedback on students’ divergent thinking performance: an electrodermal activity experiment

教授对学生发散思维表现反馈的调查：皮肤电活动实验