Using Just-in-Time with Inquiry Learning Lessons (JiTTILL) to Promote Conceptual Change for Student Understanding in Introductory Materials Science and Engineering Courses

工程-材料科学（57）该项目结合了即时教学（jit）方法，该方法利用学生对基于网络的课前学习问题集的回答来构建当天的课堂探究活动，以及探究学习课程（ILL）活动。将JiTT和ILL作为一种教学、学习和监测策略的整合被称为JiTTILL。为了在材料科学与工程入门课程中实施这一策略，研究人员正在创建一些模块，这些模块包括课前概念问题、典型的学生回答误解、信息迷你讲座的内容、后续课堂探究学习活动、结束语和稍后在线完成的问题集。在这种方法中，他们打算揭示先验知识，监督学生的理解，提高学习技能，并通过观念的改变促进学生对材料科学和工程内容的学习。传播工作包括建立网站资源门户，分发载有材料的光盘，在会议和期刊上发表论文，以及举办教员讲习班。项目评估包括经验丰富的评估人员，并通过材料概念清单、学生访谈和焦点小组来确定JiTTILL方法对学生学习和概念理解的影响。更广泛的影响包括方法、模块和材料概念清单的广泛传播，特别是通过教师研讨会。

Engineering - Materials Science (57)The project is combining the Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) approach, which uses student responses to web-based, pre-class study question sets to frame the day's classroom inquiry activities, with Inquiry Learning Lesson (ILL) activities. The integration of JiTT and ILL as a teaching, learning, and monitoring strategy is referred to as JiTTILL. To implement this strategy in an introductory material science and engineering course, the investigators are creating modules that consist of pre-class concept questions, typical student response misconceptions, content for informational mini-lectures, follow-on classroom inquiry learning activities, closure, and question sets to be completed later on-line. In this approach they intend to reveal prior knowledge, monitor student understanding, enhance learning skills, and promote student learning of material science and engineering content through conceptual change. The dissemination effort includes establishing website resource portals, distributing a CD containing the material, presenting and publishing papers at conferences and in journals, and offering faculty workshops. Project evaluation involves experienced evaluators and is determining the impact of the JiTTILL approach on student learning and conceptual understanding using a material concept inventory, student interviews, and focus groups. The broader impacts include the broad dissemination of the approach, the modules, and the material concept inventory, particularly through the faculty workshop.