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

来自普渡大学和印第安纳大学的一组研究人员将研究学生如何在小组环境中学习STEM学科的核心思想和实践。该项目团队将开发在中学生物和数学课上复杂而有意义的学习任务中观察协作小组参与的理论和措施。项目成果将广泛用于审查国家和地方科学标准中要求的参与科学和数学实践的情况。最终，这些措施将支持确定高质量的科学和数学参与的内容和学科联系，以及促进这种参与的小组过程和教学活动。反过来，这又可以为促进高质量参与度的课程设计提供实质性的信息。该项目由EHR核心研究(ECR)计划资助，该计划支持推进STEM学习和培训基础研究文献的工作。本研究项目将借鉴有关生产性学科参与(PDE)构建的最新理论进展。PDE适用于(1)联合的、(2)动态的、(3)脱离其背景的学习，包括关键的STEM概念和纪律实践。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的标准中解释小组分数。项目团队将在现有措施和理论进展的基础上，开发理论并实施PDE。将使用现有的视频数据进行纸质试卷的初步试验。为了评估评分表作为团体参与度的衡量标准，将在评价表的试验过程中收集和分析预先指定的有效性证据。将测试在活动内和活动之间演变的参与度的统计模型，并用于预测PDE的发生。这项研究将解决有关PDE在纪律实践中如何进展的基础理论问题。

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.