EAGER: Shifting to Online Instruction for Math Teachers Teaching Computing

EAGER：数学教师计算机教学转向在线教学

• 批准号: 2039357
• 负责人: Kathryn Fisler
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2039357&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Shifting; Online; Instruction; Math

Brown University will explore how to enable math teachers to effectively teach computing online. Bootstrap is a national-scale outreach program that helps K-12 teachers integrate introductory computing into existing classes, such as math, physics, and social studies. Like many programs, Bootstrap has shifted to virtual professional development (PD) for Summer and Fall 2020. Its teachers are also preparing to teach with a combination of remote and socially-distanced instruction. For teachers with limited prior computing background, simultaneously learning and preparing to teach computing in a new (online) format demands significant cognitive overhead. Teachers must learn to effectively use programming tools, but also how to manage attention across these tools, lecture slides, digital worksheets (that would have been on paper for in-person learning), and potentially a videoconference session. With many learners (teachers and students) working on tablets or Chromebooks without external monitors or access to printers, the cognitive demands become considerable. This EAGER project explores how teachers in the integration context experience workload and develop non-cognitive dispositions that are known to impact the effectiveness of virtual PD in computing.Brown University will seek to understand and mitigate the additional challenges that math teachers face when learning to integrate computing into their courses, both in virtual PD and in virtual teaching. Collected data will be largely qualitative, in the form of surveys, check-in questions embedded in PD sessions, interviews with teachers, and field observations during PD. Surveys will be designed to account for a variety of underlying factors, including cognitive task load, confidence, motivation, and interest. The project will result in case studies, findings about effective design of PD and instruction in virtual contexts, and curricular materials adapted for virtual instructional settings. Revised curricular materials will be freely available online. The assessments and materials will be designed for teachers in various situations, including those teaching remotely, those teaching in person but under student social-distancing, and those in rural areas, who have been requesting virtual PD independently of COVID. The latter, in particular, will make this work relevant even after in-person teaching and learning is able to resume.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.

布朗大学将探索如何使数学教师能够有效地在线教授计算。Bootstrap是一个全国性的推广计划，帮助K-12教师将入门计算整合到现有的课程中，如数学，物理和社会研究。与许多项目一样，Bootstrap已在2020年夏季和秋季转向虚拟专业发展（PD）。它的教师也准备结合远程和社交距离教学进行教学。对于有限的先前计算背景的教师，同时学习和准备教计算在一个新的（在线）格式需要显着的认知开销。教师必须学会有效地使用编程工具，但也要学会如何管理这些工具，讲座幻灯片，数字幻灯片（这将是在纸上亲自学习），并可能是一个视频会议的注意力。随着许多学习者（教师和学生）在没有外部显示器或打印机的情况下使用平板电脑或Chromebook，认知需求变得相当大。这个EAGER项目探讨了教师在整合背景下如何体验工作量，并发展出已知会影响虚拟PD在计算中的有效性的非认知倾向。布朗大学将寻求理解和减轻数学教师在学习将计算整合到他们的课程中时面临的额外挑战，无论是在虚拟PD还是在虚拟教学中。收集的数据将主要是定性的，在调查的形式，检查问题嵌入PD会议，与教师的访谈，并在PD期间的实地观察。调查的设计将考虑各种潜在因素，包括认知任务负荷、信心、动机和兴趣。该项目将导致案例研究，关于PD和虚拟环境中的教学的有效设计的研究结果，以及适用于虚拟教学环境的课程材料。修订后的课程材料将在网上免费提供。这些评估和材料将针对不同情况下的教师而设计，包括远程教学的教师、在学生社交距离下亲自教学的教师，以及在农村地区要求虚拟PD的教师。特别是后者，即使在面对面的教学和学习能够恢复之后，也将使这项工作具有相关性。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。