Research Initiation Grant: Increasing Student Engagement in Homework

这项工程教育研究启动补助金旨在了解如何提高学生参与课外学习任务，如家庭作业，并制定有效的方法来提高参与度。 该项目吸引了来自工程、行为和学习科学的合作伙伴，以收集关于学生为什么不做课外作业以及如何识别和吸引这些学生的初始数据。 该项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于，通过更好地了解学生选择不做课外作业的原因，也许可以提高他们完成这项工作的频率和完成工作的质量。 由于工程项目中的许多学习都是在课堂之外进行的，因此这是工程劳动力发展的一个重要问题。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改变前沿。 此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来创造对社会有用的结果和研究。

This engineering education research initiation grant seeks to understand how to increase student engagement in out-of-class learning assignments such as homework, and to develop effective methods to improve engagement. The project engages partners from engineering and the behavioral and learning sciences to gather initial data which on why students don't do out-of-class work and how to identify and engage these students. The broader significance and importance of this project is that by better understanding why students choose not to do out-of-class assignments it may be possible to improve how often they complete this work and the quality of work they do complete. Since much learning in engineering programs takes place outside of the classroom, this is an important issue for engineering workforce development. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.