Research Initiation Grant: Increasing Student Engagement in Homework

研究启动补助金：提高学生对家庭作业的参与度

• 批准号: 1137013
• 负责人: Richard Bennett
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1137013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Grant; Increasing; Student

This engineering education research initiation grant seeks to understand how to increase student engagement in out-of-class learning assignments such as homework, and to develop effective methods to improve engagement. The project engages partners from engineering and the behavioral and learning sciences to gather initial data which on why students don't do out-of-class work and how to identify and engage these students. The broader significance and importance of this project is that by better understanding why students choose not to do out-of-class assignments it may be possible to improve how often they complete this work and the quality of work they do complete. Since much learning in engineering programs takes place outside of the classroom, this is an important issue for engineering workforce development. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.

这项工程教育研究启动赠款旨在了解如何增加学生参与课外学习任务，例如家庭作业，并开发有效的方法来改善参与度。 该项目吸引了工程学以及行为和学习科学的合作伙伴，以收集最初的数据，这些数据为什么学生不从事课外工作以及如何识别和吸引这些学生。 该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性是，通过更好地理解为什么学生选择不进行课堂外任务，可以改善他们完成这项工作的频率以及完成的工作质量。 由于工程课程中的大量学习发生在课堂外，这对于工程劳动力发展是一个重要的问题。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备具有新能力和专业知识的工程劳动力来改变前沿。 此外，NSF通过为社会创造的成果和研究来实现对社会的创新目标，这些结果和研究通过为教育政策和实践提供信息而对社会有用。