Examining Faculty Attitudes and Strategies that Support Successful Flipped Teaching

翻转教学是一种教育方法，通过使用其他形式，如在线视频，将讲座从课堂时间转移到课堂外。这一变化为学生腾出了课堂时间，让他们通过团队解决问题、处理真实数据和小组讨论等活动加深理解。尽管越来越多的证据表明，在翻转课堂中主动学习可以提高学生的学习能力和积极性，但一些教师反对这种方法。这种抵制部分是由于缺乏对如何翻转课程的认识，以及担心没有足够的时间来准备有效的课程材料。该项目将通过支持南伊利诺伊大学爱德华兹维尔分校和圣路易斯社区学院的教师团队，在多个STEM部门开发和实施新的翻转课程，帮助解决使用翻转课堂形式的障碍。从项目活动的研究中获得的结果将提供关于在不同的STEM部门和不同类型的机构中广泛实施翻转课程所需的信息。在该项目的三年时间里，24名教师成功实施了翻转教学，预计将提高STEM课程的保留率和成功率，包括保留来自历史上代表性不足群体的学生。通过严谨的研究，该项目将检验教师对翻转教室的看法、态度和意图。该项目的三个主要研究目标是：1)教师如何感知和实施翻转教学？2)四年制硕士大学教师实施翻转教学与两年制社区学院教师实施翻转教学相比如何？3)在每种类型的机构中成功实施翻转课堂的基本设计原则是什么？来自社区学院的六名教师和来自大学的六名教师将接受翻转教学的专业发展，并创建课前作业、课堂活动和学习评估。专业发展期望提高教师对翻转教学的信心和技能，使他们能够在未来成为其他教师的导师。从调查和访谈中获得的一组强有力的定量和定性数据将使项目团队能够确定教师在课程重新设计过程中的决策，以及他们对实施新教学模式的看法，确定支持和阻碍实施翻转教学的因素，并探索哪些因素是两个机构共同的，哪些是机构类型特有的。研究小组将使用描述性和推断性统计来分析前后调查和专题编码技术来审查采访记录中的数据。此外，该团队将检查学生的成绩和课程完成率，以及学生对翻转教学经验的看法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Flipped teaching is an educational approach that shifts lectures from class time to out of class, by using other formats such as online video. This change frees up class time for students to deepen their understanding through activities such as team problem-solving, working with real-world data, and group discussions. Despite growing evidence that active learning in flipped classrooms can increase student learning and motivation, some faculty members have resisted this approach. The resistance is due in part to lack of awareness about how to flip a course and concerns about having enough time to prepare effective course materials. This project will help address barriers to using a flipped class format by supporting cohorts of faculty at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and St. Louis Community College to develop and implement new flipped courses across multiple STEM departments. Results obtained from research on project activities will provide information about what is needed for broad implementation of flipped courses, across different STEM departments, and at different types of institutions. Successful implementation of flipped teaching by 24 faculty members over the three years of the project is expected to improve retention and success in STEM, including retention of students who are from historically underrepresented groups. Through rigorous research, the project will examine faculty perceptions, attitudes, and intentions about flipping their classrooms. The project's three overarching research goals are: 1) How do faculty perceive and implement flipped teaching? 2) How does faculty implementation of flipped teaching at a four-year master's university compare with faculty implementation at a two-year community college? and, 3) What are the essential design principles for implementing a successful flipped classroom at each type of institution? Six faculty from the community college and six from the university will receive professional development in flipped teaching and create pre-class assignments, in-class activities, and learning assessments. The professional development is expected to increase faculty confidence and skills in flipped teaching, enabling them to serve as mentors to other faculty in the future. A robust set of quantitative and qualitative data derived from surveys and interviews will enable the project team to determine faculty decision-making during course redesign and their perceptions of implementing the new teaching model, identify factors that support and hinder implementation of flipped teaching, and explore which factors are common to both institutions and which are specific to institutional type. The research team will use descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze pre/post surveys and thematic coding techniques to examine data from the interview transcripts. Additionally, the team will examine student grades and course completion rates, as well as student perceptions of the flipped teaching experience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.