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

合作研究：加强 STEM 教育的神经认知实验：男女工科学生发散思维的研究

基本信息

批准号：
1726884
负责人：
Gul Kremer
金额：
$ 15.95万
依托单位：
Iowa State University
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 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1726884&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Neurocognitive Experimentation 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.

工程师为快速变化的以技术为导向的世界提供创意和新颖的解决方案。创造性的问题解决或分歧是这些STEM专业人员成功的关键。长期以来，工业和学术领导者一直表示担心传统工程计划会教学生解决明确定义的分析问题，但不能充分发展创造性或发散的思维能力。但是，对支持不同思维的因素知之甚少。在这个项目中，工程和心理学的研究人员将共同理解和培养本科工程专业学生的不同思维技能。该项目将涉及两个阶段：检查在创造性问题解决过程中发生的大脑活动，以及开发教学材料以鼓励学生的不同思维。该项目将在STEM环境中增加对不同思维的神经认知基础的理解。它还将提供教育资源，以增强未来工程师和其他STEM专业人员的不同思维，这对于21世纪的创新经济至关重要。本学科项目将整合工程学，神经科学和心理学的策略和技术，以检查神经和认知机制，以检查具有差异性思维和构思在工程学学生中的不同思维和构思。在项目的第一阶段中，脑电图（EEG）技术测量大脑活动模式的变化将用于研究工程学生在执行设计任务时。具体而言，参与者将执行发散思维的任务，同时记录细粒度的时间分辨率脑电图以评估Alpha频段中与任务相关的光谱功率变化。由于工程师经常在团队中工作，因此研究人员将专门研究女性和男性工程专业学生的不同思维表现如何受小组动态的影响。特别探索的将是团队成员的反馈，这些反馈会影响学生的性别，特别关注性别刻板印象威胁或提升的影响以及高权威人士的性别对学生的不同思维表现的反馈。在该项目的第二阶段，脑电图研究的结果将转化为促进不同思维的教育原则。基于这些原则，将在本科工程课程的两所不同大学中实施和测试教学实践，这些大学融合了大二和高级学生的不同思维和设计构想技能。对性别多样性的关注还将为增强各种工程学生人群的教育提供基本信息。该项目将通过项目网站，广泛观众的专业发展研讨会以及出版物来传播结果和材料。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（8）

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.

The Investigation of the Relationship between Emotional Engagement and Creativity

情感投入与创造力关系的调查

DOI：
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference 2020 Publications
影响因子：
0
作者：
Gunay, E.E.;Chu, C-Y.;Delgado Tapia, L.;ElMenoufy, O.;Yam, A.;Raje, S.;Jonczyk, R.;Dickson, D.;van Hell, J.;Siddique, Z.
通讯作者：
Siddique, Z.

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.

Utilization of automatized creativity ratings in linguistically diverse populations: automated scores align with human ratings

在语言多样化的人群中利用自动化创造力评级：自动得分与人类评级一致

DOI：
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Proceedings of the 129th Annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
影响因子：
0
作者：
Dickson, D.
通讯作者：
Dickson, D.

Pilot Study: Investigating EEG Based Neuro-Responses of Engineers via a Modified Alternative Uses Task to Understand Creativity

试点研究：通过修改后的替代用途任务来研究工程师基于脑电图的神经反应，以了解创造力

DOI：
10.1115/detc2020-22614
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
影响因子：
0
作者：
Hartog, Tess;Marshall, Megan;Ahad, Md Tanvir;Alhashim, Amin G.;Okudan Kremer, Gul;van Hell, Janet;Siddique, Zahed
通讯作者：
Siddique, Zahed