Collaborative Proposal: CI-TEAM DIFFUSION: PORTAL, Pedagogical Open-access Research-based Tools for Advancing Learning in Science and Engineering

同伴指导（PI）是一种强大的、基于研究的教学法（RBP），它利用网络基础设施的力量，以前所未有的方式促进了SE （S &amp； E）教育的学习。它是一种技术驱动的教学法，已经蔓延到每个STEM学科，并进入社会科学和人文科学。400多名知名教师在世界各地的课堂上使用PI，他们教过5万多名学生，这是一种基于证据的方法，得到了超过15年的研究支持。有证据表明，有效实施PI与统计学上显著的STEM积极学习成果相关，最重要的是，解决了与代表性不足的少数民族教育经历相关的持久性问题。这些结果令人鼓舞，但像PI这样的rbp需要有效实施，以实现SE学生学习方式的实际改进。最近的RBP实施研究表明，教师使用PI的方式各不相同，往往使其无效。目前的RBP传播方法没有充分培训教师有效地将RBP纳入课堂并取得预期的结果。集中式RBP扩散机制应防止此类误用。这个CI-TEAM扩散项目是哈佛大学和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的合作项目。PI的开发人员和现有的UT- austin 350万美元计划的管理人员正在开发一个集中的、开源的RBP扩散网络中心：门户，用于推进科学和工程学习的教学开放获取研究工具。该计划将RBP整合到另一个现有的数百万美元的科学网络学习计划Quest中。PORTAL正在构建Quest框架，该框架是使用开源工具（Ruby）编写的。该项目的愿景是提供一个集中和免费的网络中心，通过10个基于认知科学和人机交互理论的基于计算机的培训（cbt），以及三个针对哈佛大学、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、整个德克萨斯大学系统的教职员工和教职员工开发人员的暑期学院，然后在全国和国际范围内推广rbp。PORTAL利用已建立的伙伴关系和先前的NSF投资来实现以下成果：1)新一代高度多样化的网络科学，计算科学和工程工作者经过专业培训，可以使用和创新网络资源和工具；2)扩大未被充分代表的少数族裔在高科技行业的参与；3)新颖的网络创新，由全国所有人才开发，改变我们在世界上的生活方式；并最终提高国家的科学和工程竞争力。更广泛的影响：PORTAL的主要目标是扩大SE的参与，因此，为下一代高科技劳动力开辟道路，着眼于确保计算科学学生和工程师的全部人才库在进入就业市场时为网络做好准备。通过实现拟议的基准，该项目将在科学相关项目和职业中培养更大的多样性，使用经过验证的教学方法，提高所有学生（包括女性和少数族裔）对STEM主题和学业成绩的参与度、保留率和主题知识的掌握。为了实现这一目标，该团队在项目管理团队中加入了一名扩大参与范围的专家，并在美国最大的公共机构开发了一个部署地点，该机构是代表性不足的少数族裔服务概况之一。智力优势：这是一个独特的项目，旨在通过利用网络基础设施，通过cbt将rbp传播给广泛、多样化、大规模的人群，从而改变SE学生的教育体验。PORTAL提供了一种新颖的、低成本的替代方案，帮助那些努力在东南教育中实施有效的教与学改革，但又无法为更高门槛的计划提供所需的人员或机构重组的机构。此外，PORTAL还利用了德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校已建立的教育转型计划和网络基础设施，以及领先的RBP开发人员在全国STEM教育改革运动中参与了一些最广泛的教学传播工作的20年经验。最后，所有的项目工作都由经验丰富的教育研究者管理，并以有效传播、互动教学、人机交互理论、认知科学和学习理论的研究为基础。

Peer Instruction (PI) is a robust, research-based pedagogy (RBP) that has leveraged the power of cyberinfrastructure to advance learning in SE (S & E) education in unprecedented ways. It is a technology-driven pedagogy that has spread throughout each of the STEM disciplines, and into the social sciences and humanities. More than 400 known instructors, who have taught more than 50,000 students, use PI in classrooms all over the world and it is a evidence-based method supported by more than 15 years of research. Evidence indicates that effective implementation of PI correlates with statistically significant positive learning outcomes in STEM, most importantly -- addressing persistence issues pertaining to the educational experience of underrepresented minorities. These outcomes are encouraging, but RBPs such as PI require effective implementation in order to achieve actual improvements in the way SE students learn. Recent RBP implementation research indicates that instructors vary in how they use PI, often rendering it ineffective. Present RBP dissemination methods do not adequately train instructors to effectively incorporate RBPs into their classrooms and achieve desired outcomes. A centralized RBP diffusion mechanism should prevent such misapplications. This CI-TEAM Diffusion project is a collaboration between Harvard University and the University of Texas, Austin. The developers of PI and the management of an extant UT-Austin $3.5 million initiative to integrate RBPs into an additional extant multi-million dollar UT cyberlearning initiative in the sciences called Quest, are developing a centralized, open-source RBP diffusion cyberhub: PORTAL, Pedagogical Open-access Research-based Tools for Advancing Learning in Science and Engineering. PORTAL is building the Quest framework, which was written using open source tools (Ruby). The vision of this project is to offer a centralized and free cyberhub for the diffusion of RBPs through 10 Computer-Based Trainings (CBTs) grounded in cognitive science and human-computer interaction theory, and three Summer Institutes targeting faculty and faculty developers at Harvard University, UT-Austin, the entire UT System, and then on a national and international scale. PORTAL leverages established partnerships and prior NSF investments to achieve the following outcomes: 1) a new, highly-diverse generation of cyber-ready science, computational science, and engineering workers expertly trained to use and innovate cyberresources and tools; 2) Broadened participation among underrepresented minorities in high technology careers; 3) novel cyber-innovations, developed by the full pool of national talent, that transform how we live in the world; and ultimately 4) increased national science and engineering competitiveness. BROADER IMPACT:The key objective of PORTAL is to broaden participation in SE and as such, to open pathways for the next generation of our high-technology workforce, with an eye toward ensuring that the full talent pool of computational science students and engineers are cyberready when they hit the job market. By achieving proposed benchmarks, the project will nurture greater diversity in science -related programs and careers using instructional methods proven to improve engagement in subject-matter and academic performance, retention, and subject-matter knowledge in STEM among all students, including women and racial minorities. Towards meeting this goal, this team has included a broadening participation specialist on the project management team and has developed a deployment site at the largest public institution in the United States with one of the highest-underrepresented minority-serving profiles. INTELLECTUAL MERIT: This is unique as a project seeking to transform educational experiences for SE students by leveraging the cyberinfrastructure to diffuse RBPs to a broad, diverse, large-scale population through CBTs. PORTAL provides a novel, low-cost alternative for institutions striving to implement effective teaching and learning reform in SE education, but unable to commit the personnel or institutional restructuring required for higher-threshold initiatives. Moreover, PORTAL harnesses an established educational transformation initiative and cyberinfrastructure at UT-Austin and two decades of experiences by leading RBP developers who have engaged in some of the most widespread pedagogical dissemination efforts in the national STEM education reform movement. Finally, all project efforts are managed by an experienced educational researcher and grounded in research on effective dissemination, interactive teaching, human-computer interaction theory, cognitive science, and learning theory.