WIDER: EAGER: Recognizing, Assessing, and Enhancing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices in STEM at Arizona State University, Polytechnic

该项目记录了亚利桑那州立大学理工学院校园循证STEM教学实践的程度，并评估和加强其影响。以证据为基础的做法是基于学习和教学的研究。他们在实际的课堂环境中产生了改善学生学习的客观证据。它们通常包括课堂或实验室活动，要求学生通过超越抄写笔记或执行规定程序的行动来表达他们的想法。本项目为：（1）收集和审查课程大纲和教学材料，以确定它们是否以及在多大程度上纳入了循证教学实践;（2）使用标准协议对选定的班级和实验室进行观察，以评估循证教学实践的实施情况;（3）评估学生在STEM课程中的学习情况，以便衡量未来课程改革的有效性;以及（4）与教师合作，促进和加强在STEM课程中采用和使用循证教学实践。该项目使用最先进的，基于研究的评估工具在不同的STEM领域衡量学生的学习和监测改革教学实践的效果。这是亚利桑那州立大学通过循证实践提高STEM教学有效性的关键一步，亚利桑那州立大学拥有全国最大的学生入学人数。这种加强循证教学实践的模式的成功实施和传播将为其他希望采取有效行动改善学生STEM学习的教育机构提供激励和路线图。

This project is documenting the extent of evidence-based STEM instructional practices on the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus and assessing and enhancing their impact. Evidence-based practices are based on research in learning and teaching. They yield objective evidence of improved student learning in actual classroom situations. They typically incorporate classroom or laboratory activities that require students to express their thinking though actions that go beyond copying notes or executing prescribed procedures. This project is: (1) collecting and examining course syllabi and instructional materials to determine whether and to what degree they incorporate evidence-based instructional practices; (2) using standard protocols to carry out observations of selected classes and laboratories to assess implementation of evidence-based instructional practices; (3) assessing student learning in STEM courses, allowing measurement of the effectiveness of future course reforms; and (4) working with instructors to facilitate and enhance the adoption and use of evidence-based instructional practices in their STEM classes. This project is using state-of-the-art, research-based assessment instruments in diverse STEM fields for gauging student learning and monitoring the effects of reformed instructional practice. It is a key step in the process of increasing effectiveness of STEM instruction through evidence-based practice at Arizona State University, which has the largest student enrollment in the nation. Successful implementation and dissemination of this model of enhancing evidence-based instructional practice will provide both an incentive and a roadmap for other educational institutions that wish to take effective action to improve STEM learning for their students.