Creating an ECE Curriculum Combining Theory with Experiments and Research

创建理论与实验研究相结合的幼儿教育课程

• 批准号: 0343160
• 负责人: Robert Hendricks
• 金额: $ 9.87万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0343160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; ECE; Curriculum; Combining; Theory

A project will plan to renovate the common core curriculum (currently nine courses) that leads to the BSEE and BSCpE degrees at Virginia Tech. Approximately 900 undergraduates students, split roughly 50:50 between the two degree programs will be affected. Throughout the development of the new curriculum, two goals will be addressed. First, the curriculum will be technically solid and logically organized to guide a large number of students through both degree tracks, each with a wide range of spe-cializations. Second, known and tested pedagogical methodologies, as well as the concept of "Learning Communities" that will assist in providing a more common background for entering students, will be in-troduced to assure equal opportunities for a diverse student body and to encourage excellence of learning, regardless of the student's learning style. Support for these tasks will be provided by the Center for Excel-lence in Undergraduate Teaching and by the University Honors Program. Successful development of the proposed core curriculum will enhance the VT infrastructure for research and education by attracting out-standing women and under-represented minorities to the ECE Department and it will provide the oppor-tunity for all students entering the Department to improve their academic performance by providing a common background before they begin the more analytical courses in the core curriculum and by empha-sizing pedagogical methodologies that addresses multiple learning styles throughout the core curriculum.

一个项目将计划翻新通用核心课程（目前为九门课程），该课程导致弗吉尼亚理工大学的BSEE和BSCPE学位。大约900名本科生，两位课程之间将大约分配50:50。在新课程的整个开发过程中，将解决两个目标。首先，该课程在技术上是扎实的，并且在逻辑上将组织，以指导大量学生通过两个学位轨道，每个学位都有广泛的SPE-cialization。其次，已知和测试的教学方法以及“学习社区”的概念将有助于为进入学生提供更普遍的背景，以确保为多样化的学生团体提供平等的机会，并鼓励学习卓越的学习风格，无论学生的学习方式如何。对这些任务的支持将由本科教学和大学荣誉计划的Excel-Lence中心提供。 Successful development of the proposed core curriculum will enhance the VT infrastructure for research and education by attracting out-standing women and under-represented minorities to the ECE Department and it will provide the oppor-tunity for all students entering the Department to improve their academic performance by providing a common background before they begin the more analytical courses in the core curriculum and by empha-sizing pedagogical methodologies that addresses multiple learning styles throughout the core 课程。