Postdoctoral Fellowship: STEMEdIPRF: The Longitudinal Development of Students' Cognitive and EpiSTEMological Knowledge about Bonding Models

博士后奖学金：STEMEdIPRF：学生关于粘合模型的认知和认识科学知识的纵向发展

• 批准号: 2327387
• 负责人: Sarah Fullington
• 金额: $ 29.18万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; STEMEdIPRF; Longitudinal; Development

The proposed project aims to serve the national interest by improving undergraduate student learning in chemistry. The project plans to look at students’ understanding of chemical bonding, a core concept in chemistry. The project is designed as a qualitative longitudinal study to provide insight into the strategies, approaches, and mechanisms students use when engaging in tasks that require them to reason, predict, and explain phenomena related to chemical bonding. The project hopes to understand how students develop and use knowledge about chemical bonding as they progress from introductory chemistry through more advanced organic chemistry.Two research aims will be addressed in this project: 1) to investigate the development of general and organic chemistry students’ understanding of bonding, and 2) to explore the interplay between students’ ideas and epistemological beliefs about bonding and bonding models. The project is guided by Coordination Class Theory, which frames cognition as a network of fine-grained knowledge elements that are activated in context by the salient features of a task, activity, or problem. Elements of the individual development plan, including training in research methodology, literature review and proposal writing, mentoring, and teaching are intended to support the PI’s career goal of becoming a tenure-track faculty member in a chemistry department.This project is funded by the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field.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.

拟议的项目旨在通过改善化学的本科生学习来为国家利益服务。该项目计划研究学生对化学键合的理解，这是化学核心的核心概念。该项目被设计为一项定性纵向研究，以洞悉学生在从事要求他们推理，预测和解释与化学键相关的现象的任务时使用的策略，方法和机制。该项目希望了解学生如何在化学介绍化学到更先进的有机化学中发展和使用有关化学键合的知识。该项目将解决两个研究的目的：1）调查一般和有机化学学生对键合的理解的发展，以及2）探索学生在学生之间的相互作用和关于键合和键合模型之间的相互作用的相互作用。该项目以协调类理论为指导，该理论将认知框起来是一个精细的知识元素网络，这些网络是通过任务，活动或问题的显着特征在上下文中激活的。 Elements of the individual development plan, including training in research methodology, literature review and proposal writing, mentaling, and teaching are intended to support the PI’s career goal of becoming a tenure-track faculty member in a chemistry department.This project is funded by the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their准备从事领域知识的基础和应用研究的准备。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来评估值得支持的。