Improving Students’ Advanced Manufacturing Skills with Mastery Learning

通过掌握学习提高学生的先进制造技能

• 批准号: 2300824
• 负责人: Kenneth Welborn
• 金额: $ 52.03万
• 依托单位: Piedmont Virginia Community College
• 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: 2023-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2300824&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Students; Advanced; Manufacturing; Skills

Mastery learning provides students with an opportunity to learn new skills at their own pace. Given sufficient time and instructional support, students can demonstrate a high level of achievement for a set of skills. Industry demand for skilled technicians in advanced manufacturing continues to grow as manufacturers adopt new technologies to improve productivity and product quality. This project will implement mastery learning in a core set of courses to address industry’s need for advanced manufacturing technicians who have the necessary foundational skills and hands-on experience to be successful in the technician workforce. A dual enrollment program based on mastery learning for regional high school students will provide a pathway for students into the advanced manufacturing program. The project team will assess the impact of mastery learning on student learning outcomes and the effectiveness of recruiting activities for high school students. Project results will be disseminated regionally through the state’s community college system to instructors in other manufacturing programs. Lessons learned from implementing mastery learning will be presented at national conferences focused on technical education.Regional manufacturers recently collaborated on identifying foundational skills for students in an existing advanced manufacturing program at Piedmont Virginia Community College. The goals of this project are to: 1) improve student learning outcomes for foundational skills in advanced manufacturing; 2) increase the number of graduates from the advanced manufacturing program; and 3) help students understand the workplace environment at regional manufacturers. Mastery learning will be implemented in six core courses using a flipped classroom approach with hands-on learning for advanced manufacturing technologies. Courses will be structured as a sequence of modules that students complete at their own pace. Each module builds on the content of previous modules while introducing more advanced concepts. Students must achieve the learning objectives for a module before moving to the next module. This project will provide professional development for high school teachers to implement the modules in four dual enrollment courses. The project team will partner with existing clubs, organizations, and programs to develop recruiting activities that will focus on broadening participation in the advanced manufacturing program. Students will have opportunities to engage with regional industry through structured activities such as site visits and job shadowing so that students can learn about workplace practices. Project results will provide insights for the technical education community on the effectiveness of mastery learning in advanced manufacturing programs. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced technology fields that drive the nation’s economy.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.

掌握式学习为学生提供了一个按照自己的节奏学习新技能的机会。给予足够的时间和指导支持，学生可以在一组技能上表现出高水平的成就。随着制造商采用新技术来提高生产率和产品质量，行业对先进制造业熟练技术人员的需求持续增长。该项目将在核心课程中实施精通学习，以满足行业对先进制造技术人员的需求，这些技术人员拥有必要的基础技能和实践经验，能够在技术人员队伍中取得成功。以熟练学习为基础的双招生计划将为学生进入先进制造计划提供途径。项目团队将评估掌握学习对学生学习成果的影响以及高中学生招聘活动的有效性。项目结果将通过州社区学院系统在地区内传播给其他制造业项目的教师。实施精通学习的经验教训将在以技术教育为重点的国家会议上提出。地区制造商最近合作，在皮埃蒙特弗吉尼亚社区学院现有的先进制造项目中，为学生确定基本技能。该项目的目标是：1)提高学生在先进制造基础技能方面的学习成果；2)增加先进制造专业毕业生人数；3)帮助学生了解区域制造商的工作环境。精通学习将在六门核心课程中实施，采用翻转课堂的方法，并对先进的制造技术进行实践学习。课程将按照学生按照自己的进度完成的模块序列来组织。每个模块都建立在前一个模块的内容之上，同时引入更高级的概念。学生必须完成一个模块的学习目标，才能进入下一个模块。本项目将为高中教师提供专业发展，以实施四门双招生课程中的模块。项目团队将与现有的俱乐部、组织和项目合作，开展招聘活动，重点是扩大先进制造项目的参与范围。学生将有机会通过实地考察和工作见习等有组织的活动与地区行业接触，以便学生了解工作实践。项目结果将为技术教育界对先进制造项目中掌握学习的有效性提供见解。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。