Research Initiation: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer within Engineering Curricula

研究启动:促进工程课程内的知识转移

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    2205022
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 20万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2022-09-01 至 2022-11-30
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

Engineering students often have difficulty applying ideas from one course to another and using their learning in new ways. The students do not see the same links between their classes that their teachers see. This difficulty becomes a problem when these students go into the workplace and need to use their knowledge and learning in new ways for their career. We need to better understand why students face these problems and to find ways to help students transfer their learning to new settings. In this research, we will first seek to understand why students have problems applying their knowledge. We will then develop new ways to teach students that help them better transfer their learning. These new ways of teaching will be tested in order to show their effectiveness before being used to help teach future students. This work will increase our understanding of how to better prepare engineering students to apply their knowledge in their career.Although it is well-established that students have difficulty transferring theory and skills between courses in their undergraduate curriculum, many college-level courses only concern material relating to the course itself and do not cover how this material might be used elsewhere. It is unsurprising, then, that students struggle to transfer and integrate knowledge from multiple areas into new problems as part of capstone design courses, for example, or in their careers. The proposed investigation builds on work in the field of knowledge transfer which has noted the problems students often face in applying their understanding in new and unfamiliar situations. Various authors in both cognitive and disciplinary sciences have discussed these difficulties and noted the need to develop tools and techniques for promoting knowledge transfer, as well as to help students develop cross-course connections. This work will address the barriers to knowledge transfer, and crucially develop the needed activities and practices for promoting transfer by answering the following research questions: (1) What are the primary challenges experienced by students when tasked with transferring theory and skills from prior courses, specifically mathematics and physics? (2) What methods of prior knowledge activation are most effective in enabling students to apply this prior knowledge in new areas of study? In this investigation, the prior knowledge and motivation of students will be assessed using concept maps, concept inventories, and motivational surveys. Various in-class activities developed to support and enable knowledge transfer will then be piloted and assessed. The effectiveness of these activities will be assessed by examining student ability to transfer the knowledge required to solve these specially designed problems and by using surveys. Overall, this study will help to improve our understanding of the barriers to knowledge transfer, as well as developing promising practices that promote transfer. The activities, teaching practices, and techniques developed in this study will address the need for these tools identified in the literature. These promising practices can then be used to better inform teaching methods that aid the formation of engineers who are better equipped to transfer their knowledge across a broad range of applications.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.
工程专业的学生通常很难将一门课程的思想应用到另一门课程,也很难以新的方式使用他们的学习。学生们没有看到他们的班级之间的联系,他们的老师看到。当这些学生进入工作场所,需要以新的方式使用他们的知识和学习他们的职业生涯时,这种困难就成为一个问题。我们需要更好地理解为什么学生会面临这些问题,并找到帮助学生将学习转移到新环境的方法。在这项研究中,我们将首先试图了解为什么学生在应用他们的知识方面存在问题。然后,我们将开发新的方法来教学生,帮助他们更好地转移他们的学习。这些新的教学方法将进行测试,以显示其有效性,然后再用于帮助教未来的学生。这项工作将增加我们对如何更好地准备工程专业学生在他们的职业生涯中应用他们的知识的理解。虽然它是公认的,学生在他们的本科课程的课程之间的理论和技能转移有困难,许多大学水平的课程只关心与课程本身有关的材料,并没有涵盖如何这些材料可能会被用于其他地方。因此,毫不奇怪,学生们努力将多个领域的知识转移和整合到新的问题中,例如作为顶点设计课程的一部分,或者在他们的职业生涯中。拟议的调查建立在知识转移领域的工作,注意到学生在新的和不熟悉的情况下应用他们的理解经常面临的问题。认知科学和学科科学的许多作者都讨论了这些困难,并指出需要开发促进知识转移的工具和技术,以及帮助学生发展跨学科联系。这项工作将解决知识转移的障碍,并通过回答以下研究问题来制定促进转移所需的活动和实践:(1)学生在承担转移以前课程的理论和技能,特别是数学和物理时遇到的主要挑战是什么?(2)什么样的方法激活先前的知识是最有效的,使学生能够应用这些先前的知识在新的研究领域?在这项调查中,学生的先验知识和动机将使用概念图,概念清单和动机调查进行评估。然后,将对为支持和促进知识转移而开发的各种课堂活动进行试点和评估。这些活动的有效性将通过检查学生的能力,转移所需的知识,以解决这些专门设计的问题,并通过使用调查进行评估。总的来说,这项研究将有助于提高我们对知识转移障碍的理解,以及制定有前途的做法,促进转让。在这项研究中开发的活动,教学实践和技术将解决文献中确定的这些工具的需求。这些有前途的实践可以被用来更好地为教学方法提供信息,帮助培养更有能力在广泛的应用中转移知识的工程师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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Alexander De Rosa其他文献

Effects of training program implementation on improvement in spatial ability
训练计划实施对空间能力提升的影响
A Review of Psychosocial Factors Associated with Undergraduate Engagement and Retention in STEM
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Implementation of a Nontraditional Spatial Skills Training Program
实施非传统空间技能培训计划

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Research Initiation: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer within Engineering Curricula
研究启动:促进工程课程内的知识转移
  • 批准号:
    2301341
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 20万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant

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