An Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education

跨学科设计项目：结合制作和设计思维来加强本科 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 1928565
• 负责人: Nathalia Holtzman
• 金额: $ 217.26万
• 依托单位: CUNY Queens College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Design; Program; Incorporating; Making

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to improve undergraduate student interest in science and retention in STEM programs. It intends to accomplish this goal by enriching STEM courses with project-based learning activities that introduce students to making and design thinking. The project seeks to build faculty capacity through a partnership between Queens College, an HSI, and the New York Hall of Science, a science museum. The project will draw from the expertise in informal learning of New York Hall of Science, which has developed a framework that enhances STEM learning through making, discovery, and exploration. The project will gather evidence about how making and design thinking lead to increased student motivation and interest in STEM, as well as improvements in academic outcomes for students. The project seeks to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines and has the potential to transform science interest within the diverse community of Queens in New York City.The project aims to incorporate project-based pedagogical approaches in identified courses to introduce students to making and design thinking. The project will develop and support a learning community for STEM faculty, which will help faculty acquire expertise in how to best incorporate design thinking, making, and the use of makerspace facilities into their courses. The project aims to generate best practices in project-based learning that includes making and design thinking in STEM courses. In addition, the project will examine whether making and design thinking supports changes in students' motivational beliefs and interest in STEM, deepens faculty pedagogical practices, and fosters inter-institutional interactions. The project's impact on undergraduate students will be investigated using data linked to STEM achievement and persistence (from institutional records) and measures of motivational perceptions (from surveys). To investigate faculty participation and perceptions, as well as impact on participating institutions, a longitudinal mixed methods design will generate data about how faculty respond over time to training and support, and about how long-term activities lead to change in complex institutions. The project will host a public forum where students can present or demo their projects and will also share findings through a project website. Other dissemination efforts will include course manuals posted on the QC Makerspace and course websites, papers published in both academic publications and informal learning practitioner publications, presentations given at STEM education conferences and at public events at the New York Hall of Science. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个轨道1项目旨在提高本科生对科学的兴趣和保留STEM计划。 它打算通过丰富STEM课程与基于项目的学习活动，向学生介绍制作和设计思维来实现这一目标。该项目旨在通过皇后学院（HSI）和纽约科学馆（科学博物馆）之间的伙伴关系来建设教师能力。该项目将借鉴纽约科学馆在非正式学习方面的专业知识，该科学馆开发了一个框架，通过创造、发现和探索来加强STEM学习。该项目将收集有关制作和设计思维如何提高学生对STEM的动机和兴趣，以及改善学生学业成绩的证据。该项目旨在扩大STEM学科中代表性不足的群体的参与，并有可能改变纽约市皇后区多元化社区的科学兴趣，该项目旨在将基于项目的教学方法纳入指定课程，向学生介绍制作和设计思维。该项目将为STEM教师开发和支持一个学习社区，这将帮助教师获得如何最好地将设计思维，制作和使用makerspace设施纳入课程的专业知识。该项目旨在生成基于项目的学习的最佳实践，包括STEM课程中的制作和设计思维。此外，该项目还将研究制作和设计思维是否支持学生对STEM的动机信念和兴趣的变化，深化教师的教学实践，并促进机构间的互动。该项目对本科生的影响将使用与STEM成就和持久性（来自机构记录）相关的数据以及动机感知（来自调查）的测量进行调查。为了调查教师的参与和看法，以及对参与机构的影响，纵向混合方法设计将产生有关教师如何随着时间的推移对培训和支持的反应，以及长期活动如何导致复杂机构的变化的数据。该项目将举办一个公共论坛，学生可以展示或演示他们的项目，并通过项目网站分享调查结果。 其他传播工作将包括在QC Makerspace和课程网站上发布的课程手册，在学术出版物和非正式学习从业者出版物上发表的论文，在STEM教育会议上和纽约科学馆的公共活动中发表的演讲。 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。该奖项反映了NSF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。