Creating and Implementing a Concept Inventory-Based Diagnostic Tool to Improve Undergraduate GIS Education

创建和实施基于概念清单的诊断工具以改善本科 GIS 教育

• 批准号: 0837259
• 负责人: Matthew Bampton
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837259&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Implementing; Concept; Inventory; Based

Geology (42) This project is improving GIS education by uncovering student misconceptions. Drawing on the notions of concept inventories first developed in the Force Concept Inventory, and using techniques developed by education researchers in other STEM disciplines, a concept-based diagnostic tool is being developed to measure student learning across the wide array of disciplines in which GIS is taught. The instrument is being used to identify the misconceptions preventing students from attaining geospatial literacy as defined in the Geospatial Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge (BOK). Project activities include: 1) mapping the BOK concept inventory to the existing statewide GIS curriculum; 2) developing an assessment instrument to identify misconceptions impairing students' understanding of these concepts; 3) identifying successful strategies for overcoming the misconception; and 4) integrating the successful strategies in classrooms and laboratories to improve and update existing GIS curriculum materials. This project is responsive to a call to action by the National Research Council and numerous professional bodies including the University Consortium for GIS and the Association of American Geographers. The project findings are enabling GIS educators to address the problem of student underperformance and positively impact teaching in the ever widening array of fields in which GIS is now regarded as indispensable.

地质（42）该项目通过发现学生的误解来改善GIS教育。利用最初在“力量概念清单”中开发的概念清单的概念，并使用教育研究人员在其他STEM学科中开发的技术，正在开发一种基于概念的诊断工具，以衡量在教授GIS的广泛学科中的学生学习。该工具被用来确定阻止学生在地理空间信息科学和技术知识体系（BOK）中定义的地理空间素养的误解。项目活动包括：1）将BOK概念清单映射到现有的全州GIS课程中； 2）开发一种评估工具来识别误解会损害学生对这些概念的理解； 3）确定克服误解的成功策略； 4）将成功的策略整合到教室和实验室中，以改善和更新现有的GIS课程材料。该项目对国家研究委员会的行动呼吁和众多专业机构有回应，包括GIS大学联盟和美国地理学家协会。该项目的发现使GIS教育工作者能够解决学生表现不佳的问题，并在不断扩大的领域中对教学产生积极影响，在这些领域中，GIS现在被认为是必不可少的。