SBP: Identifying best practices for inclusive physics learning environments

SBP：确定包容性物理学习环境的最佳实践

• 批准号: 1611318
• 负责人: Rachel Scherr
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: Seattle Pacific University
• 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: 2016-07-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1611318&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBP; Identifying; best; practices; inclusive

This significant project will share examples of university physics departments that effectively support women and minorities; learn what physics faculty know, believe, and value that could help them create inclusive learning environments; and provide evidence-based guidance to physics faculty who want to include more women and minorities in physics. The intellectual motivations of this project are captured by the American Physical Society's Joint Diversity Statement: "To ensure a productive future for science and technology in the US, we must make physics more inclusive...Underrepresented groups constitute a largely untapped intellectual resource and a growing segment of the U.S. population" Unfortunately many faculty remain convinced that traditional instruction, assessment, and admissions reliably identify the "best students", in spite of evidence that these practices discriminate against underrepresented groups. To make physics more inclusive, physics teaching should be transformed to increase its effectiveness for women and minorities; physics assessments should accurately reflect student learning without discriminating against disadvantaged groups; and physics departments should enact admissions, mentoring, and advising practices that support all students' intellectual and professional growth. In this project physics education researchers, social justice professionals, and physics professional societies will work together to (1) identify physics faculty and departments that are already striving for inclusive physics learning environments through specific teaching efforts or departmental practices, providing examples of practices, values, knowledge, and programs that support equity in physics; (2) learn what knowledge, beliefs, values, and priorities physics faculty share that could support them in creating more inclusive learning environments; and (3) produce pilot resources for physics faculty to change their instruction and their departmental practices to better support inclusion of women and minorities. These pilot resources will include lessons about physics teaching and learning based on short episodes of video illustrating physics classrooms' best-practices and guidance for faculty on analyzing demographic data on student assessments.

这个重要的项目将分享有效支持妇女和少数群体的大学物理部门的例子；了解物理教师知道，相信和价值，可以帮助他们创建包容性学习环境；并为希望在物理学中包括更多妇女和少数民族的物理教师提供基于证据的指导。该项目的智力动机是由美国物理社会的共同多样性声明所捕获的：“为了确保美国科学技术的富有成效的未来，我们必须使物理学更具包容性……代表性不足的群体构成了很大程度上未开发的知识分子和一个越来越多的美国人口“不幸的是，许多教师仍然相信，尽管有证据表明这些实践歧视代表性不足的群体，但传统的教学，评估和入学可靠地确定了“最佳学生”。为了使物理学更具包容性，应改变物理教学，以提高其对妇女和少数民族的有效性；物理评估应准确反映学生的学习，而不会区分弱势群体；物理部门应颁布招生，指导和建议实践，以支持所有学生的智力和专业成长。在这个项目中，物理教育研究人员，社会正义专业人士和物理专业社会将通过特定的教学工作或部门实践来确定已经努力为包容物理学学习环境而努力的物理教师和部门，提供实践，价值观，价值观，价值观，价值观， ，支持物理公平的知识和计划； （2）了解什么知识，信念，价值观和优先级物理教师共享，可以支持他们创建更具包容性的学习环境； （3）为物理教师生产试点资源，以改变其教学和部门实践，以更好地支持妇女和少数民族的纳入。这些试点资源将根据视频的简短情节包括有关物理教学和学习的课程，这些视频说明了物理学教室的最佳实践和指导，以分析有关学生评估的人口统计数据。