IUSE: Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Informal Visual Learning Tools on Educational Engineering Through Comics

IUSE：保护原则，图解：通过漫画分析非正式视觉学习工具对教育工程的影响

• 批准号: 2235827
• 负责人: Lucas Landherr
• 金额: $ 29.93万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUSE; Conservation; Principles; Illustrated; Analyzing

This project aims to serve the national interest by evaluating the impact of informal visual learning tools in undergraduate engineering courses through the use of comics. Engineering students have shown a prevalence for learning from visual learning tools, which represents a challenge when much of engineering instruction can be highly theoretical without obvious visual representation to support students’ comprehension. Developing better visual learning techniques and instruction would better communicate concepts while also helping students to more thoroughly engage with the information. Increasing the visual content of engineering instruction would promote students’ conceptual understanding. This project aims to address these challenges in engineering education through a dedicated, theoretically grounded, multi-institution study of multiple long-form comics across multiple concepts within a chemical engineering course. This project is the first study integrating a series of long-form educational comics over an entire engineering course, evaluating improvements in student interest, confidence, and understanding through the medium of comics. The project is positioned to develop a series of educational comics and integrate them into undergraduate chemical engineering course instruction of students of diverse backgrounds studying in different institutional contexts, and to evaluate changes in student motivation and comprehension. Studying the potential of comics in engineering education has the potential to help meet the increasing need for additional informal learning tools, by analyzing how well comics can provide another useful resource for instructors. The assessment of how comics can address the needs for more informal, visual, and representative learning approaches in undergraduate education can be beneficial to the field.This project will develop a series of comics and ConcepTest questions addressing concepts in a core introductory chemical engineering course, to be implemented into coursework at Northeastern University, North Carolina State University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Connecticut, Prairie View A&M University, and Cooper Union. This project represents the first dedicated study reviewing the impact of multiple long-form comics across multiple concepts within an engineering course. Through both formative and summative evaluation in this project, the project aims to address two central research questions: 1) What is the impact on student interest, confidence, and understanding through the use of comics in undergraduate learning environments? 2) What are the best practices for using comics as informal supplemental learning tools and what is the transportability of these practices? This project plans to apply the MUSIC model of academic motivation (eMpowerment, Usefulness, Success, Interest, and Caring) to assess the students’ interest in the subjects and confidence in their aptitude and determine how increases in student motivation lead to increased student learning. The project plans to study the effectiveness of a potentially transformative approach to instruction through the use of comics as informal, virtual learning tools. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目旨在通过使用漫画评估非正式视觉学习工具在本科工程课程中的影响，从而服务于国家利益。工科学生普遍使用可视化学习工具进行学习，这是一个挑战，因为许多工程教学可能是高度理论性的，而没有明显的视觉表现来支持学生的理解。开发更好的视觉学习技术和教学将更好地交流概念，同时也有助于学生更全面地参与信息。增加工程教学的视觉化内容会促进学生对概念的理解。本项目旨在通过对化学工程课程中多个概念的多个长篇漫画进行专门的、理论上有根据的、多机构的研究来解决工程教育中的这些挑战。这个项目是第一个在整个工程课程中整合一系列长篇教育漫画的研究，通过漫画来评估学生在兴趣、信心和理解力方面的进步。该项目旨在开发一系列教育漫画，并将其整合到本科化学工程课程教学中，为在不同院校学习的不同背景的学生提供指导，并评估学生动机和理解力的变化。研究漫画在工程教育中的潜力，通过分析漫画如何为教师提供另一种有用的资源，有可能帮助满足对额外非正式学习工具日益增长的需求。评估漫画如何解决本科教育中对更非正式、更直观和更具代表性的学习方法的需求可能对该领域有益。该项目将开发一系列漫画和概念测试问题，解决核心化学工程课程中的概念，并将应用到东北大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学、肯塔基大学、康涅狄格大学、草原景观农工大学和库珀联盟的课程工作中。这个项目代表了第一个专门的研究，审查了工程课程中多个长篇漫画对多个概念的影响。通过本项目的形成性和终结性评估，该项目旨在解决两个核心研究问题：1)在本科生学习环境中使用漫画对学生的兴趣、信心和理解有什么影响？2)使用漫画作为非正式补充学习工具的最佳实践是什么？这些实践的可移植性是什么？本项目计划应用学习动机(赋权、有用性、成功、兴趣和关爱)的音乐模型来评估学生对学科的兴趣和对他们能力的信心，并确定学生动机的增加如何导致学生学习的增加。该项目计划通过使用漫画作为非正式的虚拟学习工具，研究一种潜在的变革性教学方法的有效性。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。