A Simulation-Based Pedagogical Approach in Chemistry Education

化学教育中基于模拟的教学方法

• 批准号: 2247283
• 负责人: Sungwook Hong
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Simulation; Based; Pedagogical; Approach; Chemistry

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this project aims to develop, implement, validate, and disseminate a program of study that will support the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions and their application in solving advanced science problems by using computational modeling. Many institutions require engineering students to take a prerequisite chemistry course, however, such a course is often not aligned with knowledge and skills that students seek for their majors and is not immediately applicable to solving advanced engineering problems. Additionally, students may experience difficulties in learning chemistry due to its abstract nature and a lack of student-centered learning strategies. To address these challenges the Simulation-Based Pedagogical Approach in Chemistry Education for All Students to Succeed in STEM (SPACE) project aims to fill a gap in the research by integrating advanced engineering techniques to give students dynamic representation of abstract and unobservable phenomena at molecular and atomic levels using real-time simulations. This project intends to embed evidence-based practices in entry level courses to improve long-term student learning and create a community that will cultivate their science identity.The goals of Project SPACE are to develop and test a co-curricular set of activities that will support the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions and their application in solving advanced science problems for undergraduate students in engineering majors. The project will use training in computational modeling and simulation skills, incorporate evidence-based learning strategies, and further develop students’ science identity through an asset-based pedagogical tool. The project will recruit engineering undergraduate students who are enrolled in a prerequisite chemistry course at California State University, Los Angeles using a variety of methods. Over the course of two years in three distinct implementations the team will pilot-test and refine the course of study. In each implementation, students will be assessed before, during, immediately after, and one semester later in four main areas: chemical reaction knowledge, context-based science problem-solving skills, motivation toward science, and science identity. Through the three implementations, the project will be comprehensively evaluated using a set of instruments to examine its promises for future adaptation and replication at an institutional level. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity for institutional transformation at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs are supported by this program.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），该项目旨在开发，实施，验证和传播一项研究计划，该计划将支持对化学反应的基本理解及其在使用计算建模解决高级科学问题中的应用。许多机构要求工程专业的学生参加化学课程的先决条件，然而，这样的课程往往不符合知识和技能，学生寻求他们的专业，并不立即适用于解决先进的工程问题。此外，由于化学的抽象性和缺乏以学生为中心的学习策略，学生在学习化学时可能会遇到困难。为了应对这些挑战，基于模拟的教学方法在化学教育中为所有学生在STEM（空间）项目中取得成功，旨在通过整合先进的工程技术来填补研究中的空白，让学生使用实时模拟在分子和原子水平上动态表示抽象和不可观察的现象。该项目旨在将循证实践嵌入到入门级课程中，以改善学生的长期学习，并创建一个社区，培养他们的科学身份。项目SPACE的目标是开发和测试一套辅助课程活动，以支持对化学反应的基本理解及其在解决工程专业本科生的高级科学问题中的应用。该项目将使用计算建模和模拟技能的培训，纳入基于证据的学习策略，并通过基于资产的教学工具进一步发展学生的科学身份。该项目将招募工程本科生谁是在加州州立大学，洛杉矶使用各种方法注册的先决条件化学课程。在为期两年的三个不同的实施过程中，该团队将进行试点测试和完善学习课程。在每个实施中，学生将在四个主要领域进行评估之前，期间，之后立即和一个学期后：化学反应知识，基于上下文的科学问题解决能力，对科学的动机和科学身份。通过这三项实施工作，将利用一套工具对该项目进行全面评价，以审查其今后在机构一级进行调整和推广的可能性。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM参与，并建立HSI机构转型的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于HSIs的多样性和背景，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（i）参与学生学习，（ii）关于如何有效地使STEM多样化和增加参与，以及（iii）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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。