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Collaborative Research: Promoting Research-based Instructional Methods to Enhance and Reform STEM Education

合作研究：推广基于研究的教学方法，以加强和改革 STEM 教育

基本信息

批准号：
1821697
负责人：
Chu-Lin Cheng
金额：
$ 63.46万
依托单位：
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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=1821697&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Promoting based Instructional

项目摘要

This project is a collaboration between the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Front Range Community College, and the University of Nebraska/Methodology and Evaluation Research Core Facility. The project aims to address the challenges institutions face as they seek to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. To this end, the project will implement and investigate a comprehensive approach to transforming instruction and institutional culture. The project aims to increase the adoption of learner-centered, research-based instructional strategies through the Learning by Design professional development program. The Learning by Design program was developed through a previous Widening Implementation and Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms award. Project components include a professional development program focused on course-design principles and research-based instructional strategies, with follow-on mentoring, roundtable discussion, course improvement awards, and research and evaluation activities. The primary goal of this project is to move undergraduate STEM instructors away from traditional teacher-centered lecture-based instruction, toward learning-centered active learning-based instruction. The secondary goal is to create, test, and implement different versions of the Learning by Design program in ways that are sensitive to differences between institutions and their varied missions and contexts. The project team proposes to develop models for sustainability that will enable these versions to persist beyond the life of the project. Applying grounded theory and correlational analyses, the multiple-case study research study (mixed qualitative and quantitative methods) is designed to address the primary research question: How can evidence-based instructional methods and professional development programs be effectively propagated in different institutions of higher education to support STEM instructor implementation of learner-centered instruction? The design/implementation and research components of the proposed effort are grounded in the organizational change literature, primarily through the theoretical and practical work of Kezar (e.g., research-based principles of organizational change, change strategies, change foci, change models, and change outcomes). The project is designed to provide multiple ways by which faculty, academic departments and other units, institutions, and institutional consortia can support broader implementation of effective instructional strategies/practices, and thus improve undergraduate STEM education.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.

该项目是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校、德克萨斯大学格兰德谷分校、Front Range社区学院和内布拉斯加州大学方法论与评估研究中心的合作项目。该项目旨在解决机构在寻求改善科学、技术、工程和数学方面的本科教育时所面临的挑战。为此目的，该项目将实施和研究一种全面的方法来改变教学和机构文化。本计划旨在透过设计学习的专业发展计划，提高以学习者为中心、以研究为基础的教学策略的采用。“设计学习”项目是通过之前的“扩大实施和实证改革示范”奖制定的。项目组成部分包括专注于课程设计原则和基于研究的教学策略的专业发展计划，包括后续指导、圆桌讨论、课程改进奖励以及研究和评估活动。该项目的主要目标是使本科STEM教师从传统的以教师为中心的讲座式教学转向以学习为中心的主动学习式教学。第二个目标是创建、测试和实施不同版本的“设计学习”项目，这些项目要对机构之间的差异及其不同的使命和环境敏感。项目团队建议开发可持续性模型，使这些版本能够在项目生命周期之后持续存在。运用扎根理论和相关分析，多案例研究研究（混合定性和定量方法）旨在解决主要研究问题：如何在不同的高等教育机构有效地传播循证教学方法和专业发展计划，以支持STEM教师实施以学习者为中心的教学？所提议的工作的设计/实施和研究组成部分主要通过Kezar的理论和实践工作（例如，组织变革的基于研究的原则、变革战略、变革焦点、变革模型和变革结果）以组织变革文献为基础。该项目旨在为教师、学术部门和其他单位、机构和机构联盟提供多种方式，以支持更广泛地实施有效的教学策略/实践，从而改善本科STEM教育。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。