Collaborative REsearch: The POGIL Project-Faculty Development and Evaluation

这是一个涉及3个提案的合作项目。编号机构PI0618746，领导富兰克林和马歇尔学院Moog 0618758南佛罗里达大学Lewis0618800美国天主教大学bunce该项目通过在全国范围内的传播、实施、改进、评估和研究来支持POGIL教育系统的发展。POGIL是一种经过全国测试和验证的教学策略，它结合了最近关于学生如何学习的教育研究。这是一个经过测试的创新典范，已经证明有能力促进广泛采用。在这个项目中，由于区域网络的扩展，在教师发展机会的支持下，POGIL的使用增加了。该项目协调和传播不同环境下POGIL材料的适应性，并支持战略领域的新POGIL开发。该项目在该国目标地区发展教师专业知识，通过研讨会和规划会议建立和支持区域联系，以建立具有国家中心的自我维持的POGIL从业人员区域网络。与POGIL相关的学生学习评估使用了一种深入的方法，该方法建立在项目成功的比较评估历史上。为了衡量终身学习的技能，以及更传统的内容目标，正在开发新的工具，利用对学生学习的新的微调评估。本科STEM教与学基础研究是推动课程改革的引擎。POGIL一直是一种基于研究的教育创新。该项目通过描述学生在POGIL环境下对化学的理解如何发生概念变化，为这个研究基础做出了贡献，不仅提供了对概念变化本质的洞察，还提供了有效实施的关键特征，为项目的发展和传播工作提供了素材。

Chemistry (12)This is a collaborative project involving 3 proposals.Number Institution PI0618746, lead Franklin and Marshall College Moog 0618758 University of South Florida Lewis0618800 Catholic University of America BunceThis project supports the growth of the POGIL system of education through dissemination, implementation, improvement, evaluation and research across the country. POGIL is a nationally tested and proven pedagogical strategy that incorporates recent educational research on how students learn. It is an exemplary tested innovation that has already demonstrated the ability to promote widespread adoption. During this project, increased use of POGIL is generated by the expansion of regional networks, supported by ongoing faculty development opportunities. The project coordinates and disseminates adaptations of POGIL materials for diverse settings and supports new POGIL developments in strategic areas.The project develops faculty expertise in targeted areas of the country, establishing and supporting regional connections via workshops and planning sessions to produce self-sustaining regional networks of POGIL practitioners with a national hub.Evaluation of student learning related to POGIL uses an in-depth methodology that builds on the project's successful history of comparative evaluation. To measure skills for lifelong learning, as well as more traditional content goals, new instruments are being developed that utilize new finely-tuned assessments of student learning.Basic research on undergraduate STEM teaching and learning is the engine that drives curricular reform. POGIL has always been a research-based educational innovation. The project is contributing to this research base by describing how conceptual change occurs in students' understanding of chemistry in a POGIL setting, providing insight not only into the nature of conceptual change but also into critical features for effective implementation that feed the project's development and dissemination efforts.