Making it Stick! Mobile Apps to Pedagogically Support Retrieval Practices

该项目将推进“面向学生和教师的创新技术体验”（ITEST）项目的工作，更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业的动机和能力的实践，方法是利用移动技术帮助多达530名教师和9000多名学生使用经过验证的检索经验来改善STEM学习。该项目将设计和实施教学和技术检索体验，并测试这些体验将鼓励学生在新的环境中学习、保留和应用新获得的科学知识的假设。该项目将通过开发和使用从简单到复杂的移动应用程序来实现这一目标，从基本的检索策略到涉及交错和生成实践的交互式问题解决方法。通过跨学科的方法，该项目将把STEM内容与技术和教学法相结合，以支持更有意义和更深入的学习。以文化为导向的低门槛技术以及认知有效的检索实践将用于提高学生的计算思维以及与未来STEM劳动力职业相关的科学处理和批判性思维技能。演绎和归纳推理将支持混合方法的研究设计，包括前后调查、年度竞赛、课堂观察、反思日志条目、视频回忆和面对面访谈、活动日志和课堂文物。这些措施将捕捉到移动技术的使用给学生和教师的态度、信念和课堂教学带来的变化。对来自这些来源的信息进行数据分析，将对研究结果的有效性提供强有力的表征，包括评估者之间的可靠性、内部一致性以及对研究设计稳定性的测试和再测试。项目成果将包括通过不同教育水平的物理、化学、生物、地球科学和数学的移动应用程序开发的多个STEM领域通用的计算模型和模式。将建立一个数据库，以维护和传播新开发的移动应用程序。开发的资源和研究成果将通过会议和项目与80个地区学区的手指湖学习网络以及其他地区的STEM从业者和政策制定者共享。年代的网站。

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by employing mobile technology to help up to 530 teachers and more than 9,000 students use proven retrieval experiences to improve STEM learning. The project will design and implement pedagogical and technological retrieval experiences as well as test the hypothesis that these experiences will encourage students to learn, retain, and apply newly acquired scientific knowledge in novel settings. The project will accomplish this goal through the development and use of simple to complex mobile Apps ranging from basic retrieval strategies to interactive problem solving approaches involving interleaved and generative practices. Through an interdisciplinary approach this project will combine STEM content with technology and pedagogy to support more meaningful and in-depth learning. Culturally-oriented, low-threshold technologies along with cognitively effective retrieval practices will be used to increase students' computational thinking as well as their scientific processing and critical thinking skills associated with careers in the future STEM workforce. Deductive and inductive reasoning will underpin a mixed-methods research design involving pre-post surveys, rubric-scored annual competitions, classroom observations, reflective journal entries, video recall and face-to-face interviews, activity logs, and classroom artifacts. These measures will capture changes in student and teacher attitudes, beliefs, and classroom instructions brought on by the use of mobile technologies. Data analysis of information from these sources will provide a robust characterization of the validity of research findings inclusive of inter-rater reliability, internal consistency, and testing and retesting of the stability of the study design. Project outcomes will include computational models and patterns common to multiple STEM fields developed through mobile Apps in physics, chemistry, biology, Earth science, and mathematics at different educational levels. A database will be created to maintain and disseminate newly developed mobile Apps. Developed resources and research findings will be shared with Finger Lakes Learning Network of 80 regional school districts as well as STEM practitioners and policymakers elsewhere through conferences and the project?s website.