Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Methodological tools for studying group productive disciplinary engagement

来自普渡大学和印第安纳州大学的一组研究人员将研究小组环境中的学生如何参与学习STEM学科的核心思想和实践。项目团队将开发理论和措施，以观察在中学生物和数学课上复杂而有意义的学习任务中的协作小组参与。该项目的成果将广泛用于审查参与科学和数学实践的情况，如国家和地方科学标准所要求的。最终，这些措施将支持识别内容和学科连接的特点，高质量的参与科学和数学，以及组的过程和教学活动，促进这种参与。这反过来又可以为促进高质量参与的课程设计提供大量信息。该项目由EHR核心研究（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持推进STEM学习和培训的基础研究文献的工作。该研究项目将借鉴有关建设生产性学科参与（PDE）的最新理论进展。PDE适用于（1）联合，（2）动态，（3）与其上下文不可分割的学习，包括关键的STEM概念和学科实践。项目团队将开发一个详细的模型，以指导后续使用以证据为中心的设计方法开发观察工具，然后执行验证计划，以支持从旨在测量PDE的量规中解释组评分。该项目小组将发展理论和操作PDE在现有的措施和理论进步的基础上的一个标题。将利用现有的视频数据对纸质格式的规则进行初步试验。为了评价作为小组参与度测量的量规评级，将在量规试验期间收集和分析预先规定的有效性证据。将测试在活动内部和活动之间不断演变的参与统计模型，并用于预测PDE的发生。本研究将解决有关PDE如何在学科实践中取得进展的基本理论问题。

A team of researchers from Purdue University and Indiana University will look at how students in group settings become engaged in learning the core ideas and practices specific to STEM disciplines. The project team will develop theory and measures for observing collaborative group engagement during complex and meaningful learning tasks in middle school biology and math classes. The project outcomes will be broadly available for examining engagement in science and mathematics practices such as are being called for in national and local science standards. Ultimately, these measures will support the identification of content and disciplinary connections characteristic of high quality engagement in science and math, as well as the group processes and instructional activities that promote this engagement. This, in turn, can substantially inform curricular design that promotes high quality engagement. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances the fundamental research literature on STEM learning and training.This research project will draw on recent theoretical advances concerning the construct of productive disciplinary engagement (PDE). PDE applies to learning that is (1) joint, (2) dynamic, and (3) inextricable from its context, including key STEM concepts and disciplinary practices. The project team will develop a detailed model to guide the subsequent development of observational tools using an evidence-centered design approach and then execute a validation plan to support interpretation of group scores from a rubric designed to measure PDE. The project team will develop theory and operationalize PDE in a rubric grounded in extant measures and theoretical advances. Initial trials of a paper-format rubric will be conducted using extant video data. To evaluate the rubric ratings as group engagement measures, pre-specified validity evidence will be collected and analyzed during trials of the rubric. Statistical models of engagement as evolving within and across activities will be tested, as well as used to predict occurrences of PDE. This research will address foundational theoretical questions about how PDE progresses during disciplinary practices.