Building Capacity: Catalyzing Change in Calculus

能力建设：促进微积分的变革

• 批准号: 1832450
• 负责人: Laird Kramer
• 金额: $ 149.99万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 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=1832450&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Catalyzing; Change; Calculus

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI program will also generate new knowledge about how to achieve these aims. This project at Florida International University will advance the aims of the HSI Program by increasing the success of students in calculus. Leveraging a partnership with Broward College, this project will implement Modeling Practices in Calculus, a student-centered curriculum in which students learn calculus by engaging in the authentic practices of mathematicians. Such practices include working in teams, looking at problems from different perspectives, and proficiently using terminology and symbols. Learning assistants who are near peers will facilitate learning in the classroom, enabling students to learn from mistakes, give and receive feedback, and help one another learn. The project's research design includes longitudinal measures of student success and the tracking of students who transfer from Broward College to Florida International University. The project will directly affect over 15,000 students enrolled at two HSIs, where over 80% of students are from historically-underrepresented groups.The specific aims of the project include generating new knowledge about the effectiveness of the Modeling Practices Curriculum and how this curriculum fosters learning for highly diverse student populations. Further, it will generate knowledge about faculty adoption practices and institutional change as it establishes an institutional culture to sustain and expand the intervention. The research design includes randomized-control trials as well as multivariate matching methods to establish a strong evidentiary base for the impacts of the Modeling Practices Curriculum and facilitate comparison of student outcomes, both immediate and longitudinal. Over the period of funding, the project will host eight professional development workshops for faculty. The implementation-tested Modeling Practices Curriculum materials, instructional guides, and research finding will be disseminated broadly, to two-year and four-year institutions with diverse student populations that are seeking to enhance the learning of calculus.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.

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。 佛罗里达国际大学的这个项目将通过提高学生在微积分方面的成功来推进HSI计划的目标。 利用与布劳沃德学院的合作伙伴关系，该项目将实施微积分建模实践，这是一门以学生为中心的课程，学生通过参与数学家的真实实践来学习微积分。 这些实践包括团队合作，从不同的角度看待问题，熟练使用术语和符号。 学习助理谁是附近的同龄人将促进在课堂上学习，使学生从错误中学习，给予和接受反馈，并帮助彼此学习。 该项目的研究设计包括学生成功的纵向措施和跟踪谁从布劳沃德学院转移到佛罗里达国际大学的学生。该项目将直接影响超过15，000名学生就读于两个HSIs，其中超过80%的学生来自历史上代表性不足的群体。该项目的具体目标包括生成有关建模实践课程的有效性以及该课程如何促进高度多样化的学生群体学习的新知识。此外，它将产生有关教师采用的做法和制度变革的知识，因为它建立了一个机构文化，以维持和扩大干预。研究设计包括随机对照试验以及多变量匹配方法，以建立一个强大的证据基础的建模实践课程的影响，并促进学生的成果比较，即时和纵向。在资助期间，该项目将为教师举办8个专业发展研讨会。 实施测试的建模实践课程材料，教学指南和研究成果将广泛传播，以两年制和四年制的机构与不同的学生群体，正在寻求提高微积分的学习。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

项目成果

Student attitudes in an innovative active learning approach in calculus

学生对微积分创新主动学习方法的态度

• DOI: 10.1080/0020739x.2021.2023771
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International journal of mathematical education in science and technology
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: Castillo, Adam J.;Durán, Pablo;Fuller, Edgar;Watson, Charity;Potvin, Geoff;Kramer, Laird H.
• 通讯作者: Kramer, Laird H.