Developing Online Value Inventories to Predict and Improve Student Success in STEM Education

评估/研究（91）第二阶段CCLI项目继续开发和测试评估工具，重点是衡量学生对学习科学和数学的重视程度。主要目标是在早期制作科学价值清单（SVI）和数学价值清单（MVI）的工作基础上，为教师提供改进的方法来塑造他们的课程和课程，以提高学生在STEM教育中的成功。开发这些工具是为了测试这样一种观点，即真正的STEM素养要求学生在STEM课程中找到价值。测试两种仪器的纸质版本的数据表明它们都是有效和可靠的。它们现在在全国各地的各种机构中使用。对调查结果的分析发现了显著的性别差异，以及教师和课程之间的差异。分析还发现，传统黑人学院和大学的学生与中西部州立大学的学生对科学的重视程度相似。该项目将更广泛地将这些工具推广到通识教育中，并致力于为STEM专业开发类似的工具。项目阶段和目标是：(1)开发和实施一个可访问的、有效的基于网络的系统，用于管理MVI和SVI工具。正在执行的项目任务包括验证在线版本，并创建一个记录学生注册、学生回答、人口统计信息以及提交教师和课程信息的自动化过程。(2)开发新的在线价值清单，供STEM专业学生使用。正在进行的项目任务包括初步测试和修改仪器，以确保它们使用在线协议是有效和可靠的。这项任务需要开发更灵敏的仪器，因为本科STEM专业最初倾向于更重视科学或数学（或两者）。在这项工作的第一阶段构建的基于网络的系统被用于管理这些清单，分析和分发结果，并建立一个数据库，以深入了解价值如何影响STEM专业学生的成功前景。(3)进行分析，以确定这些工具在预测学生在STEM教育中的成功方面的能力。收集到的数据被用来建立一个关于学生价值观的国家数据库，允许与国家标准进行比较，并根据机构类型、学生背景、种族、性别和其他变量进行分组。

Assessment/Research (91) This Phase 2 CCLI project is continuing to develop and test assessment tools focused on measuring the value that students place on learning science and mathematics. A primary goal is to provide instructors with improved methods for shaping their courses and curricula so as to improve student success in STEM education, building on earlier work that produced the Science Value Inventory (SVI) and Math Value Inventory (MVI). These instruments were developed to test the idea that real STEM literacy requires students to find value in their STEM courses. Data from testing the paper versions of both instruments indicate that they are both valid and reliable. They are now in use in a variety of institutions around the country. Analysis of survey results has detected significant gender differences, and variations among instructors and curricula. Analysis has also found similarities in how students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Midwestern state universities value science. This project is more widely disseminating these tools for general education, and working on developing similar tools for STEM majors. The project phases and goals are to (1) Develop and implement an accessible, efficient web-based system for administering the MVI and SVI instruments. Project tasks being conducted include validating the online versions, and creating an automated process for recording student registration, student responses, demographic information, and submission of instructor and course information. (2) Develop new online value inventories to use with STEM majors. Project tasks being conducted include initial testing and modification of the instruments to ensure that they are valid and reliable using online protocols. This task requires the development of more sensitive instruments, because undergraduate STEM majors tend initially to place greater value on science or math (or both). The Web-based system constructed in the first phase of this work is being used to administer these inventories, analyze and distribute the results, and build a database that provides insight into how value affects STEM majors' prospects for success.(3) Conduct analyses to determine the power of these instruments in predicting student success in STEM education. The collected data are being used to build a national database of student values, allowing comparison against national norms, as well as subgroups based on institutional type, student background, ethnicity, gender and other variables.