Innovation Challenges for Middle School Mathematics in a Digital Learning System: Student Participation Impact on Achievement, Affect, and STEM Career Interest

数字学习系统中中学数学的创新挑战：学生参与对成绩、情感和 STEM 职业兴趣的影响

• 批准号: 1759167
• 负责人: Erin Krupa
• 金额: $ 119.57万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759167&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovation; Challenges; Middle; Mathematics; Digital

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase middle school girls and minorities motivations and capacities to pursue careers in STEM fields. By developing digital mathematics and engineering-based challenges, the project is designed to motivate students to pursue STEM fields. Students participate in teams to create and pitch entrepreneurial ideas. Using a personalized avatar, students will navigate a learning map, develop a portfolio of work products, ideas and experiences, identify peer partners and form a team, and collaboratively prepare for an entrepreneurial start-up competition.This project leverages an entrepreneurial sprit to explore STEM careers through project-developed Innovation Challenges. The research component will investigate the project's effect on the motivation of middle school girls and minorities to persist in STEM courses with the overall goal to improve the participation of women and minorities in STEM careers. Specifically, the project will investigate how engaging underrepresented (STEM) students in carefully designed innovation challenge tasks that leverage an entrepreneurial spirit will affect student orientation and achievement outcomes such as self-efficacy, socio-emotional learning, and academic growth along learning trajectories. The proposed digitally-based mathematics challenges are framed within two distinct approaches. First, the project-based STEM activities are connected to improvement in academic competency. Second, the project uses avatars to encourage positive student-self-perception and collaboration as well as to bring the learning experiences closer to middle grades interests. This study has the potential to strengthen the existing knowledge base on the effect of digital learning systems on student learning and motivation based on its theoretical foundation, focus on meaningful measures, and connections to previous STEM projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将促进学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术经验的努力，以更好地理解和促进实践，从而增加中学女生和少数民族动机和能力，从而从事STEM领域的职业。通过制定数字数学和基于工程的挑战，该项目旨在激励学生追求STEM领域。学生参加团队来创建和推销企业家思想。使用个性化的化身，学生将浏览学习地图，开发工作产品，想法和经验的组合，确定同伴合作伙伴并组成团队，并为企业家启动竞争做准备。该项目利用了企业家精神，以通过项目开发的创新挑战来探索STEM职业。研究部分将调查该项目对中学女生和少数民族在STEM课程中的动机的影响，其总体目标是改善妇女和少数民族在STEM职业中的参与。具体而言，该项目将调查如何使代表性不足（STEM）学生参与精心设计的创新挑战任务，以利用企业家精神，将影响学生的取向和成就成果，例如自我效能感，社会情感学习和沿学习轨迹的学术成长。拟议的基于数字的数学挑战是在两种不同的方法中构建的。首先，基于项目的STEM活动与学术能力的提高有关。其次，该项目使用化身鼓励积极的学生自我感知和协作，并使学习经验更接近中级兴趣。这项研究有可能增强基于数字学习系统对学生学习和动机的影响的现有知识基础，这些基础基于其理论基础，专注于有意义的措施以及与先前的STEM项目的联系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的审查审查标准。