Online modules for quantitative skill building: Exploring, adaptation and adoption

在美国国家科学基金会改善本科STEM教育计划：教育与人力资源（IUSE: EHR）的支持下，本项目旨在通过介绍教师使用在线资源来教授定量素养，并研究该实施对参与教师的影响，从而为国家利益服务。这个IUSE项目以卡尔顿学院和威廉姆斯学院为基础，建立在两个nsf资助的项目（MathBench和The Math You Need When You Need It）的基础上，将增加在线模块的使用，以提高10所文理学院学生的定量技能（QS），这些文理学院包括文理数字创新合作（LACOL），这是一个拥有18500名本科生和2400名教师的联盟。在线模块将帮助学生培养在STEM入门课程中取得成功所必需的QS。该项目将推进研究，以适应和采用面对面和在线教学方法来教授定量技能。具体而言，该项目将提高LACOL教师和工作人员对QS模块开发和在整个本科STEM课程中使用的最佳实践的理解。这些知识将在LACOL和整个本科STEM教育社区中很有价值。更具体地说，首先，该项目将开发一个模型，由LACOL的教职员工协作将不同的基于研究的在线资源调整为离散的模块。其次，该项目将促进研究，由参与的教职员工以及科学教育资源中心的教育研究人员进行，研究是什么激励或抑制了教职员工适应和采用这些模块。通过提高对面对面和虚拟社区如何影响变革战略有效性的理解，以及像LACOL这样的联盟如何传播最佳实践，该项目将超越LACOL校园。NSF IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。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。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by introducing faculty to the use of online resources to teach quantitative literacy and studying the effect of that implementation on the participating faculty. This IUSE project, anchored at Carleton College and Williams College and building on two NSF-funded projects (MathBench and The Math You Need When You Need It), will increase use of online modules that improve students' quantitative skills (QS) at the ten liberal arts colleges comprising the Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation (LACOL), a consortium with a collective undergraduate enrollment of 18,500 and faculty base of 2,400. The online modules will help students develop QS necessary to succeed in introductory STEM courses. The project will advance research into adaptation and adoption of face-to-face and online pedagogies for teaching quantitative skills. Specifically, the project will improve LACOL faculty and staff members' understanding of best practices for the QS module development and use throughout the undergraduate STEM curriculum. This knowledge will be valuable within LACOL and across the undergraduate STEM education community. More specifically, first the project will develop a model for collaboratively adapting disparate research-based online resources into discrete modules, by faculty and staff in the LACOL. Second, the project will foster research, conducted by participating faculty and staff as well as educational researchers at the Science Education Resource Center, on what motivates or inhibits faculty to adapt and adopt these modules. By improving understanding of how face-to-face and virtual communities impact the effectiveness of change strategies and how consortia such as LACOL can disseminate best practices, this project will have reach beyond LACOL campuses. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.