COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The Math You Need, When You Need It: Modular Student Resources to Encourage Successful Incorporation of Quantitative Concepts in Introductory Geoscience

地质学(42)智力优势：“你需要的数学，当你需要的时候”计划正在创建一系列以学生为中心的基于网络的模块，这些模块可以针对任何地球科学入门课程定制，并与之同时运行。每个模块都为学生提供了他们需要的定量知识，就在他们同时学习的地质学课程中需要这些知识之前。这一独特的计划包括：1)对学生的量化技能进行预先评估，2)为准备不足的学生提供模块化的、自定进度的、以学生为中心的教学，以及3)评估计划的效果。我们正在利用基于数学教育最佳实践的创新教学技术，从而创建这些模块，以便在整个地质学课程中提高学生对数学的知识和理解。结合地学背景下量化概念的课堂实例，该项目正在解决国家STEM教育的许多关切，包括教授来自不同背景的大量学生的困难，课程对学生先前存在的知识的适应，以及学生自我评估和监控。广泛的影响：高等教育社区认识到，随着毕业生融入日益以数字为导向的社会，量化素养是他们的一个重要目标。该项目正在努力实现这一目标，通过提高美国本科生的数量素养，从而增加更多的美国人口。为满足个别学生的需要而量身定做教学的模块化性质和能力，有助于提高具有不同背景和数学能力的学生的数量素养。该项目正在影响地球科学教员，他们希望在自己的课程中包含地球科学的量化方面，而不需要付出额外的努力，并将准备不足的学生的疏远降至最低。此外，拟议的项目有可能在其他学科和机构中复制，在量化技能的应用是学生成功的障碍的地方。

Geology (42)Intellectual merit: "The Math You Need, When You Need It" program is creating a series of student-centered web-based modules that can be customized to, and run concurrently with, any introductory geoscience course. Each module gives students the quantitative knowledge that they need, just before they need it in their concurrent geology course. This unique program includes: 1) pre-assessment of students' quantitative skills, 2) modular, self-paced, student-centered instruction for under-prepared students and 3) post-assessment to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. We are utilizing innovative instructional techniques based in best practices in mathematical education and thereby creating these modules so that they advance students' knowledge and understanding of mathematics across the geology curriculum. Combined with classroom examples of quantitative concepts in a geoscience context, this project is addressing many concerns about the nation's STEM education, including difficulties with teaching large numbers of students from diverse backgrounds, course adaptation to students' preexisting knowledge, and student self-assessment and monitoring.Broader impacts: The higher education community recognizes quantitative literacy as an important goal for its graduates as they are integrated into our increasingly number-oriented society. This project is working toward that goal by increasing the quantitative literacy of American undergraduates and, as a result, the greater US population. The modular nature and capability of tailoring instruction to meet individual student needs is supporting increased quantitative literacy in students with diverse backgrounds and mathematical abilities. The project is impacting geoscience faculty who wish to embrace inclusion of quantitative aspects of geoscience in their courses with little extra effort and minimal alienation of under-prepared students. In addition, the proposed project has the potential to be replicated across other academic disciplines and institutions wherever the application of quantitative skills is a barrier to student success.