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Transforming STEM Education at a Research 1 University through Multi-Level Action Teams

通过多层次行动团队转变研究型大学的 STEM 教育

基本信息

批准号：
1821023
负责人：
Paula Lemons
金额：
$ 299.83万
依托单位：
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821023&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Transforming STEM Education Research University

项目摘要

A well-prepared workforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a national priority that underpins progress in science, the advancement of national health initiatives, and overall national prosperity in an increasingly technical economy. To educate this future STEM workforce, colleges and universities need to accelerate the adoption of effective teaching and learning practices at scale. This project at the University of Georgia aims to implement the University's new core commitments to designing high-quality, more effective educational experiences for STEM students by: developing clear and measurable learning outcomes, basing educational decisions on evidence, collaborating on undergraduate education, fostering continuous teaching improvement, and promoting inclusion and diversity. To achieve these goals, this project will develop teams to design and implement the necessary changes at the course, department, and institutional levels. If successful, this project could provide an example of how to make sustainable institutional change that increases the quality undergraduate education, and broadens the success of students in STEM fields.Grounded in social cognition and cultural change theory, this project will develop and coordinate action teams at the three organizational levels: the course level, the department level, and the institutional level. At the course level, instructional action teams, involving 84 faculty in biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, and statistics, will revise courses to achieve foundational learning outcomes. At the department level, a leadership action team, involving twelve department heads, will meet regularly to reconsider department policies and practices, including the way that departments evaluate and recognize teaching for promotion and tenure. At the institution level, strategic action teams comprised of faculty, department heads, and deans will work to revise institutional practices, such as the teaching evaluation system, which currently interferes with the quality of education at the University. Longitudinal data will be collected from all action team participants to investigate the extent to which the multi-level action teams produce shifts in assumptions, values, and beliefs, and result in new policies and practices. Data sources will include interviews, surveys, teaching observations, course-based assessments, audio-recordings of action team meetings, and artifacts revealing departmental and university policies. All data will be analyzed according to standard qualitative and quantitative protocols. Results will be disseminated through publications, conferences, press releases, and other avenues, with attention to situating the project results in context of related findings from other research-intensive institutions. This strategy can enhance the potential that similar institutions will be able to adopt or adapt successful institutional change models to accelerate improvement of their learning environments.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）方面准备充分的劳动力是国家的优先事项，它支持科学进步，国家卫生计划的推进以及在日益技术化的经济中的整体国家繁荣。为了教育未来的STEM劳动力，学院和大学需要加快大规模采用有效的教学和学习实践。格鲁吉亚大学的这个项目旨在实施大学的新核心承诺，为STEM学生设计高质量，更有效的教育体验：制定明确和可衡量的学习成果，基于证据的教育决策，本科教育合作，促进持续教学改进，促进包容性和多样性。为了实现这些目标，该项目将发展团队，以设计和实施课程，部门和机构层面的必要变革。如果成功的话，该项目将为如何进行可持续的制度变革，提高本科教育质量，扩大STEM领域学生的成功提供一个范例。该项目将以社会认知和文化变革理论为基础，在课程层面、系级和机构层面三个组织层面上发展和协调行动小组。在课程层面，教学行动小组，涉及84名教师在生物，化学，物理，工程，数学和统计，将修订课程，以实现基础的学习成果。在系一级，一个由12名系主任组成的领导行动小组将定期开会，重新考虑系的政策和做法，包括系评价和承认晋升和终身教职的方式。在机构层面，由教师、系主任和院长组成的战略行动小组将努力修改机构做法，如目前影响大学教育质量的教学评估制度。将从所有行动小组参与者那里收集纵向数据，以调查多层次行动小组在多大程度上产生了假设、价值观和信念的转变，并导致新的政策和做法。数据来源将包括访谈，调查，教学观察，基于课程的评估，行动小组会议的录音，以及揭示部门和大学政策的文物。将根据标准定性和定量方案分析所有数据。将通过出版物、会议、新闻稿和其他途径传播成果，并注意将项目成果与其他研究密集型机构的相关研究结果相结合。这一战略可以提高潜力，类似的机构将能够采用或调整成功的制度变革模式，以加快改善他们的学习环境。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。