Collaborative Research: Understanding Context: Propagation and Effectiveness of the Concept Warehouse in Mechanical Engineering at Five Diverse Institutions and Beyond

合作研究：理解背景：机械工程概念仓库在五个不同机构及其他机构的传播和有效性

• 批准号: 1820888
• 负责人: Susan Nolen
• 金额: $ 19.08万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1820888&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Understanding; Context; Propagation

An increase in the number and diversity of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is important for the nation's competitiveness. Concept-based active learning strategies have been shown to improve students' academic performance and increase the number who choose to stay in STEM programs. However, scientific proof that these strategies are effective is not enough to make sure instructors use them in courses. It is also necessary to understand and find ways to get instructors to adopt proven practices. In this project new online concept-based materials for mechanical engineering courses in Statics and Dynamics will be developed. The project team will study why instructors decide to use the materials, and how factors at five different types of institutions affect these decisions. The project will help to show how circumstances at different institutions affect both instructor adoption as well as student learning and motivation. It will help inform ways to support widespread use of the evidence-based instructional practice. Thus, it will also help more students stay in and graduate from engineering programs.The goal of this project is to increase the adoption of concept-based active learning throughout undergraduate engineering programs. It builds upon the project team's previous success in developing the web-based Concept Warehouse instructional resource for chemical engineering. The resource contains hundreds of short questions to engage students in concept-oriented thinking, to assess their conceptual knowledge, and to provide extensive concept-based active learning tools. The project will expand Concept Warehouse to include content in mechanical engineering. Participating institutions include research-intensive and Hispanic-serving institutions, as well as a two-year college. A systems approach will be used to examine how elements of the educational context, such as size and departmental culture, influence instructor uptake and the resulting student learning. A mixed-methods research design will include the use of data analytics, instructor interviews, student focus groups, observations, classroom video, and pre/post concept inventory scores. The research plan will also address ways in which student backgrounds and demographics (e.g., underrepresented minorities; first-generation status) interact with institutional settings to affect student learning and engagement. Workshops and faculty community building activities will be used to promote propagation of the enhanced evidence-based instructional practices.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.

科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域毕业生的数量和多样性的增加对国家的竞争力很重要。已经证明基于概念的积极学习策略可以改善学生的学业表现并增加选择留在STEM计划中的人数。但是，科学证明这些策略是有效的，不足以确保讲师在课程中使用它们。还必须理解并找到使讲师采用经过验证的做法的方法。在这个项目中，将开发用于静电和动力学的机械工程课程的新基于在线概念的材料。项目团队将研究为什么讲师决定使用材料，以及五种不同类型的机构的因素如何影响这些决定。该项目将有助于展示不同机构的环境如何影响教师的收养以及学生的学习和动力。它将有助于为支持基于证据的教学实践的广泛使用提供信息。因此，它还将帮助更多的学生呆在工程计划中。该项目的目的是增加整个本科工程课程的基于概念的积极学习。它建立在项目团队以前在开发基于Web的概念仓库教学资源方面的成功。资源包含数百个简短的问题，使学生参与概念的思维，评估他们的概念知识，并提供广泛的基于概念的活跃学习工具。该项目将扩大概念仓库，以在机械工程中包括内容。参与的机构包括研究密集型和西班牙裔服务机构以及两年的大学。系统方法将用于研究教育环境的要素，例如规模和部门文化，影响教师的吸收和由此产生的学生学习。混合方法研究设计将包括使用数据分析，讲师访谈，学生焦点小组，观察结果，课堂视频和预/后概念清单分数。该研究计划还将解决学生背景和人口统计学（例如，代表性不足的少数民族；第一代身份）与机构环境相互作用以影响学生学习和参与度的方式。研讨会和教师社区建设活动将用于促进增强基于证据的教学实践的传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。

项目成果

Work in Progress: An Ecosystems Metaphor for Propagation

正在进行的工作：传播的生态系统隐喻

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35606
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
• 作者: Nolen, S. B. Koretsky

Augmenting the classical change model to promote conceptual learning in core engineering courses.

增强经典变革模型以促进核心工程课程中的概念学习。

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Chemical engineering education
• 作者: Prince, M. Koretsky

WIP: Large-scale Development and Deployment of Concept Questions in Statics

WIP：静力学概念问题的大规模开发和部署

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
• 作者: Ramming, C. H. Papadopoulos

FOR SYSTEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTESTS FOR ACTIVE LEARNING

用于主动学习概念测试的系统开发

• DOI: 10.21125/edulearn.2019.2205
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: EDULEARN Proceedings
• 作者: Koretsky, Milo;Nolen, Susan;Self, Brian;Papadopoulos, Christopher;Widmann, Jim;Prince, Michael;Dal Bello, Dominic
• 通讯作者: Dal Bello, Dominic