MCA: Support Engaging and Inclusive STEM Education with Extended Reality (SEISE-XR)

MCA：通过扩展现实支持参与性和包容性 STEM 教育 (SEISE-XR)

• 批准号: 2322172
• 负责人: Wei Wu
• 金额: $ 34.52万
• 依托单位: California State University-Fresno Foundation
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322172&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MCA; Support; Engaging; Inclusive; STEM

This project aims to serve the national interest by transforming STEM education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) with innovative extended reality (XR) technologies. XR can enhance active learning, increase student engagement, and improve learning outcomes in STEM subjects, especially in undergraduate settings, and particularly for students with historically excluded identities. However, the widespread use of XR in STEM education faces numerous challenges. One critical deficiency is the lack of training and support for faculty to effectively and confidently integrate XR into their teaching. This project studies six STEM faculty at Fresno State who are engaged in a faculty learning community around XR integration in undergraduate STEM classes. The project will examine how their participation in the faculty learning community affects their perceptions and skills around XR integration, and connect their work in the faculty learning community with their implementation of XR in their classrooms. Through close analysis of their development and implementation, this project will generate new knowledge about how support faculty in using new technologies in the classroom. This MCA project aims to study faculty’s integration of XR to design engaging and inclusive STEM learning experiences at HSIs, informed by the Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework. Through an ethnographic research study of six STEM faculty, the research team will investigate how the TPACK framework informs and intersects with the ways in which STEM faculty grow to use XR in their classes. This study will document, describe, analyze, and interpret the development of faculty participants’ shared behavior patterns, beliefs, and culture of using XR in STEM teaching. Classroom observation data and instructional materials will be gathered to develop a snapshot of their understanding and document evidence of the faculty’s enactment of TPACK when using XR. Reflective journals, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups will be used to illuminate the process of faculty’s XR integration knowledge development and investigate how the shared culture in the community of practice, interaction with peers and students in the classroom, and changes in beliefs drive this process of faculty growth. As an MCA project, the principal investigator will develop research skills in ethnographic methods through targeted training and close collaboration with a mentor. This project is supported by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions program, which has the goals of enhancing the quality of undergraduate STEM education, and increasing the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associate’s or baccalaureate degrees in STEM.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.

该项目旨在通过通过创新的扩展现实（XR）技术在西班牙裔服务机构（HSIS）转换STEM教育来服务国家利益。 XR可以增强积极的学习，增加学生的参与度，并改善STEM学科的学习成果，尤其是在本科环境中，尤其是对于具有历史排除身份的学生而言。但是，XR在STEM教育中的宽度使用面临许多挑战。一个关键的缺乏是缺乏对教师的培训和支持，无法有效并确保将XR整合到他们的教学中。该项目研究了弗雷斯诺州立大学的六个STEM教职员工，他们围绕本科STEM课程的XR整合从事教师学习社区。该项目将研究他们在教师学习社区中的参与如何影响他们围绕XR整合的看法和技能，并将他们在教师学习社区的工作与他们在课堂上的XR实施联系起来。通过对其开发和实施的仔细分析，该项目将产生有关如何支持教师在课堂上使用新技术的新知识。这个MCA项目旨在研究教师将XR的整合到HSIS的设计引人入胜且包容性的STEM学习经验，并由技术，教学和内容知识（TPACK）框架所告知。通过对六个STEM教师的人种学研究，研究小组将研究TPACK框架如何为STEM教师在其课程中使用XR的方式提供信息和相交。这项研究将记录，描述，分析和解释教师参与者共享的行为模式，信念和文化的发展。将收集课堂观察数据和教学材料，以开发其理解的快照，并记录使用XR时教师制定TPACK的证据。反思性期刊，半结构化访谈和焦点小组将用于阐明教师XR整合知识发展的过程，并调查如何在实践社区中与同龄人和学生的互动中的共同文化，以及认为的变化相信这一促进教师成长的过程。作为MCA项目，首席研究人员将通过针对性的培训和与心态进行密切合作来发展民族志方法的研究技能。该项目得到了NSF的支持，改善了本科生的STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划，该计划的目标是提高本科STEM教育的质量，并提高招聘，保留和毕业率的学生在求职者或学士学位的启用词干中，通过评估NSF的基础奖励，并反映了NSF的基础奖励。更广泛的影响审查标准。