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Training Quantitative Social Science Teachers in the UK: Developing an International Pedagogic Collaborative Network for Quantitative Methods

在英国培训定量社会科学教师：开发定量方法的国际教学合作网络

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J011851/1
负责人：
Sin Yi Cheung
金额：
$ 9.75万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ011851%2F1
关键词：
Training Quantitative Social Science Teachers

项目摘要

To address the severe quantitative deficit in British Social Science, it is not enough to increase QM in research methods teaching alone. The embedding of quantitative materials in substantive areas is essential to bridge the gap of knowledge and skills in the application of statistics in social science research. Developing quantitative teaching materials often requires substantial time investment and advanced skills (MacInnes 2009). Insufficient awareness of the vast amount of quantitative social science research also creates a great barrier to an (QM) integrated undergraduate curriculum in most universities. To fill this lacuna, we will bring in expertise in quantitative methods in Europe and North America to strengthen our training provision. We will host a series of workshops to provide an opportunity for face-to-face interaction between these international experts and our intended audience. The workshops will focus on different stages of the undergraduate curriculum and on both QM teaching and subject specific modules. The experts we plan to enlist come from a group of 'power-houses' in quantitative social science in Europe and North America: University of California - Berkeley, University of California - Los Angeles, Wisconsin-Madison, VU University Amsterdam, and KU Leuven. Participants will learn how QM and QM embedded Sociology are taught in the UG curriculum at these universities and will be encouraged to share their own experiences and challenges in teaching QM in the UK. There will be four two-day workshops (details see Case For Support) with a final one-day closing conference over 18 months with a dedicated website on which participants can interact and share ideas. Our events are open to all UK social science teachers but each workshop is limited to 30 participants to maximise interaction. Both QM and non-QM teachers in the social sciences are welcome to enrol. For Workshops 1 to 4, on Day One our experts will offer master classes on delivering QM or substantive Sociology content. These sessions are not restricted to North American and European materials as participations from UK academics will provide comparative examples. All master classes will be video recorded and deposited online on a password protected project website. Participants will be encouraged to bring examples from their current courses (e.g. lecture notes and seminar exercises) to form a basis for discussion in the breakout sessions. Each workshop will be supported by a pre-designated reading list and preparatory materials hosted on the web. Participants are encouraged to submit teaching materials that they find useful before each workshop so they can be discussed and drawn to the attention of other delegates. At the end of the project a sample of the course materials will be transferred to a public repository with a higher profile (such as ReStore) for wider access. The project will be evaluated by two surveys. We will ask participants before and after the workshops their competences and practices in teaching QM as well as substantive modules with quantitative research. We are also interested to gauge their attitudes towards using more QM in their social science teaching and awareness of quantitative publications, datasets and resources in their research areas. Formative feedback forms will also be used after each event to allow us to adapt subsequent workshops in the series where there is a clear desire for a change of pedagogic or environmental factors.This RDI is designed to run alongside our proposed Curriculum Innovation (CI) project, in collaboration with the University of Plymouth. Sample materials from the CI project will be used in these workshops and we anticipate presenting the findings of the CI project at the final conference. However, as participants will be encouraged to work with their own materials and visiting speakers will bring their own resources, this RDI is not dependent on the success of the CI bid.

要解决英国社会科学教学中严重的定量赤字，仅仅在研究方法教学中增加质量管理是不够的。将定量材料嵌入实质性领域对于弥合统计学在社会科学研究中的应用方面的知识和技能差距至关重要。开发量化教材通常需要大量的时间投入和高级技能（MacInnes 2009）。对大量定量社会科学研究的认识不足，也给大多数高校的本科综合课程设置造成了很大的障碍。为了填补这一空白，我们将从欧洲和北美引进定量方法方面的专门知识，以加强我们的培训。我们将举办一系列研讨会，为这些国际专家和我们的目标受众提供面对面交流的机会。研讨会将集中于本科课程的不同阶段，以及质量管理教学和特定学科模块。我们计划招募的专家来自欧洲和北美定量社会科学领域的一批“强国”：加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校、阿姆斯特丹自由大学和鲁汶大学。参与者将了解这些大学的大学课程如何教授质量管理和质量管理嵌入式社会学，并鼓励他们分享自己在英国教授质量管理的经验和挑战。将有四个为期两天的研讨会（详见案例支持），最后是为期一天的闭幕会议，为期18个月，与会者可以在一个专门的网站上进行互动和分享想法。我们的活动对所有英国社会科学教师开放，但每个研讨会的参与者限制在30人以内，以最大限度地提高互动。欢迎社会科学领域的质量管理和非质量管理教师报名。工作坊1至工作坊4的第一天，我们的专家将提供提供质量管理或实质性社会学内容的大师班。这些会议不局限于北美和欧洲的材料，因为英国学者的参与将提供比较的例子。所有的大师课程都将被录下来，并存入一个有密码保护的项目网站。我们鼓励参与者从他们目前的课程（如课堂讲稿和研讨会练习）中举出例子，为分组讨论提供基础。每个工作坊都有预先指定的阅读书目和网上的准备材料。鼓励与会者在每次研讨会前提交他们认为有用的教材，以便讨论并引起其他代表的注意。在项目结束时，课程材料的样本将被转移到具有较高知名度的公共存储库（例如ReStore），以供更广泛的访问。该项目将通过两次调查进行评估。我们将在研讨会前后询问参与者在教学质量管理以及定量研究的实质性模块方面的能力和实践。我们也有兴趣了解他们对在社会科学教学中使用更多质量管理的态度，以及对定量出版物、数据集和研究领域资源的认识。每次活动结束后，形成性反馈表格也将被使用，以使我们能够适应系列中后续的研讨会，其中有一个明确的愿望，即改变教学或环境因素。该RDI旨在与我们提议的课程创新（CI）项目一起运行，并与普利茅斯大学合作。这些研讨会将使用CI项目的样本材料，我们期望在最终会议上展示CI项目的发现。然而，由于参与者将被鼓励使用他们自己的材料，访问演讲者将带来他们自己的资源，这个RDI并不依赖于CI竞标的成功。