Synthesizing Research on Spatial Taxonomies

空间分类综合研究

• 批准号: 2135743
• 负责人: David Uttal
• 金额: $ 9.89万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135743&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Synthesizing; Research; Spatial; Taxonomies

This award will support a series of workshops focused on spatial abilities and tests related to STEM education. Individual difference in spatial thinking has been tied to differences in STEM learning, but advances in applying these research findings to practice have been impeded by the lack of an organizing theory and related measurement protocols. The team of investigators from Northwestern University, Temple University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara propose to address this gap in the literature by convening a series of workshops and will produce a theoretical review and explication of taxonomies of spatial abilities and a consensus document that summarizes the most important next steps in research and development of spatial tests for STEM education. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports fundamental research that advances the research literature on STEM learning.The project will consist of a series of three meetings (both virtual and in-person) bringing together researchers from cognitive science, psychometrics, science education and discipline-based education research (DBER) fields. The iterative nature of the meetings is designed to facilitate consensus-making in developing the taxonomy. The participants will conduct a review of the literatures in multiple fields in order to bring into contact the various theoretical and analytic frameworks that have governed measurement of spatial cognition. Their preliminary findings will be presented at conferences in a number of different fields in order to get further input. The final documents will be written for wide dissemination.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.

该奖项将支持一系列专注于空间能力和与STEM教育相关的测试的研讨会。空间思维的个体差异与STEM学习的差异有关，但由于缺乏组织理论和相关测量协议，将这些研究成果应用于实践的进展受到阻碍。来自西北大学、坦普尔大学和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的研究人员团队建议通过召开一系列研讨会来解决文献中的这一差距，并将对空间能力分类法进行理论回顾和解释，并提出一份共识文件，总结STEM教育空间测试研究和开发中最重要的下一步。该项目由EHR核心研究（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持基础研究，促进STEM学习的研究文献。该项目将包括一系列三次会议（虚拟和面对面），汇集来自认知科学，心理测量学，科学教育和学科教育研究（DBER）领域的研究人员。会议的反复性质旨在促进在制定分类方面达成共识。与会者将对多个领域的文献进行回顾，以接触到管理空间认知测量的各种理论和分析框架。他们的初步调查结果将在一些不同领域的会议上提出，以获得进一步的投入。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。