REU Site: STEM CATS: Creating Academic Teacher Scholars in STEM Education

REU 网站：STEM CATS：在 STEM 教育中培养学术教师学者

• 批准号: 1560013
• 负责人: Molly Fisher
• 金额: $ 36.07万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; STEM; CATS; Creating

The goal of this University of Kentucky REU project is to prepare STEM teachers by fostering the development of their higher order thinking skills and deep conceptual STEM understanding based on research-confirmed best practices that they, themselves will investigate. The project will expose 24 pre-service K-12 STEM teachers to timely problems involving STEM teaching and learning through original research conducted with eight successful faculty mentors affiliated with University of Kentucky's STEM Education Department. The project will also provide experiences that may increase the interest of students from Bluegrass Community and Technical College in becoming K-12 STEM teachers.During the project pre-service STEM teachers will participate in authentic inquiry into local educational issues with national and international implications such as spatial recognition, informal learning, and mathematics experiences and conceptions. The project will help the students to cultivate an appreciation of the interplay between society and education and research, especially concerning the multiple transformative means of fostering STEM literacy across diverse learner populations. Students will be exposed to hands-on application of the social-scientific methods that they could eventually practice in their own STEM classrooms. Students will also be introduced to broader issues impacting these methods such as how ethics affect testing of certain hypotheses and how social biases might influence research with respect to which methodologies are used and how results are reported. Formative information will be collected each semester from all involved to monitor progress toward goals and guide program improvements. Summative information will be comprised of longitudinal outcomes data analysis to determine overall impact. While quantitative data will be used to discover correlations between students' sense of efficacy and likelihood of continuing to research (the Research Self-efficacy Scale and the NSF Biology's Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment), semi-structured interviews will be conducted to discover how participants, who vary by a variety of factors, respond individually to the project.

这项肯塔基大学REU项目的目标是通过促进基于研究确认的最佳实践来培养其高级思维技能和深层概念的STEM理解来准备STEM教师。 该项目将通过与肯塔基大学STEM教育系有八名成功的教师导师进行的原始研究，使24个职前K-12 STEM教师及时涉及STEM教学和学习的及时问题。 该项目还将提供经验，从而增加蓝草社区​​和技术学院成为K-12 STEM教师的学生的兴趣。该项目将帮助学生培养对社会与教育与研究之间的相互作用的欣赏，尤其是关于培养不同学习者人群的STEM素养的多种变革手段。 学生将接触到他们最终可以在自己的STEM教室中练习的社会科学方法的动手应用。 还将向学生介绍影响这些方法的更广泛的问题，例如道德如何影响某些假设的检验以及社会偏见如何影响研究的研究以及如何报告结果。 每个学期都将收集形成性信息，以监控目标的进度和指导计划的改进。 总结信息将由纵向结果数据分析组成，以确定总体影响。 虽然定量数据将用于发现学生的疗效意识和继续研究的可能性（研究自我效能量表和NSF生物学的本科生研究学生的自我评估），但将进行半结构化访谈，以发现参与者如何因各种因素而响应各种因素，对项目的各种响应。