Critical Thinking Enhancement through Paired English Composition and Engineering Courses

通过英语作文和工程配对课程增强批判性思维

• 批准号: 0737514
• 负责人: Karen High
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Critical; Thinking; Enhancement; through; Paired

Interdisciplinary (99)Engineering - Other (59)This study is examining a strategy for improving the lifelong learning skills of engineering students, by improving their writing and critical thinking skills. Critical thinking in this project is defined to be reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do based on personal assessments of the authenticity, accuracy, and worth of knowledge claims and arguments. In this project, the impact of pairing skills courses (English) with content courses (in Engineering) is being explored for freshman engineering students. Clustering and pairing of classes is creating a type of learning community where the deliberate cross fertilization of ideas and assignments is teaching students how material is applied in a variety of contexts. This design is creating a venue for students to apply and test their skills as they learn them. The project is measuring improvements in their critical thinking skills throughout the year. Intellectual Merit This project is improving critical thinking skills of freshman students through structured writing assignments, increasing the retention of freshman students in engineering, and raising the level of freshman student learning of both engineering content knowledge and engineering practice. Broader Impacts The broader impact of this work is the knowledge gained about the effectiveness of this approach and the likelihood that this model will guide other universities in instituting similar approaches to building critical thinking skills and improved knowledge of engineering during the freshman year. The project is focusing in particular on the effectiveness of this living and learning community on female engineering students.

跨学科（99）工程 - 其他（59）本研究正在研究一种通过提高其写作和批判性思维能力来提高工程学生终身学习技能的策略。 该项目中的批判性思维被定义为合理的反思性思维，其重点是基于对知识主张和论点的真实性，准确性和价值的个人评估来决定或做什么。 在这个项目中，正在针对新生工程专业的学生探索配对技能课程（英语）与内容课程（在工程学中）的影响。 班级的聚类和配对正在创建一种学习社区，其中有意的思想和作业的交叉施肥是在教学生如何在各种情况下应用材料。 这种设计为学生创造了一个学习和测试技能的场所。 该项目全年都在衡量其批判性思维能力的提高。 知识分子优点是通过结构化的写作作业，提高新生在工程学领域的保留，并提高新生对工程内容知识和工程实践的学习水平，从而提高新生学生的批判性思维能力。 更广泛的影响这项工作的更广泛影响是对这种方法的有效性获得的知识以及该模型将指导其他大学在大一新生期间建立批判性思维技能和改善工程学知识的类似方法的可能性。该项目特别关注这个生活和学习社区对女性工程专业学生的有效性。