Collaborative Research: Design and Development: NGSS-aligned Museum-based Engineering Education Program with Classroom Extensions

合作研究：设计和开发：符合 NGSS 的基于博物馆的工程教育计划以及课堂扩展

• 批准号: 1824859
• 负责人: Ron Skinner
• 金额: $ 17万
• 依托单位: Children's Museum of Santa Barbara
• 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: 2018-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1824859&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Design; Development; NGSS

Engaging in solving problems through engineering design develops the critical thinking and problem solving skills needed to address future societal and environmental challenges. In order to develop such skills in all learners, the new K-12 science standards and the Next Generation Science Standards include engineering design as a significant focus across all grade levels - from kindergarten through high school. However, integrating engineering design into their curriculum will be a significant challenge for teachers nationwide, as K-12 teachers are not prepared to facilitate high quality engineering design activities and generally have little knowledge or experience related to engineering. New models of instruction and teacher development are needed. This design and development project will create an engineering education program that links students' field trip experiences in an interactive science center directly to classroom experiences while helping teachers learn about teaching engineering design through working with their own students. The project will serve as a sustainable model for helping teachers develop expertise and confidence in facilitating engineering design curricula. Improving K-12 teachers' capacity to engage students in authentic engineering design is a critical step towards increasing the number of students pursuing an engineering career.This project will follow a design-based research model focused on the design and testing of an intervention through multiple iterations and will involve a collaborative partnership between a university and an interactive science center. The intervention will consist of engineering design field trip experiences and coordinated classroom lesson plans to be conducted in K-12 classrooms before and after the field trips. Teachers will be supported through an online guide and curricular supports within the lesson plans. Qualitative and quantitative data collected will include observations, video recordings, pre- and post-assessments, interviews of students and teachers, surveys and examples of student work. Analysis will focus on two primary areas: (1) Identifying the learning opportunities for students through coordinated field trip and classroom extension programs that engage students in engineering design and (2) Identifying the curricular features that support teachers in effective engineering design instruction and lead to teacher learning about facilitating engineering design curriculum. Research in these areas will lead to best practices for developing engineering design curriculum and facilitation that advance both student and teacher learning.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.

通过工程设计参与解决问题，发展了应对未来社会和环境挑战所需的批判性思维和解决问题的技能。为了在所有学习者中发展此类技能，新的K -12科学标准和下一代科学标准包括工程设计是从幼儿园到高中的所有年级的重要重点。但是，将工程设计集成到他们的课程中对于全国教师来说将是一个重大挑战，因为K-12教师不准备促进高质量的工程设计活动，并且通常几乎没有与工程有关的知识或经验。需要新的教学和教师发展模式。这个设计和开发项目将创建一个工程教育计划，该计划将学生在互动科学中心的实地考察经验与课堂体验联系起来，同时通过与自己的学生合作帮助教师学习教学工程设计。该项目将成为一种可持续的模型，可帮助教师发展专业知识和信心，以促进工程设计课程。提高K-12教师使学生参与真实工程设计的能力是增加从事工程职业的学生人数的关键一步。该项目将遵循一个基于设计的研究模型，该模型着重于通过多次迭代进行设计和测试，并涉及大学与互动科学中心之间的协作合作伙伴关系。该干预措施将包括工程设计实地考察经验和协调的课堂课程计划，将在实地考察之前和之后在K-12教室中进行。教师将通过在线指南和课程计划中的课程支持得到支持。收集的定性和定量数据将包括观察，视频录制，预评估和后评估，学生和老师的访谈，调查以及学生工作的示例。分析将重点关注两个主要领域：（1）通过协调的实地考察和课堂扩展计划来确定学生的学习机会，这些计划使学生参与工程设计，并且（2）确定支持教师在有效工程设计教学中的课程功能，并导致教师学习促进工程设计课程。在这些领域的研究将导致开发工程设计课程和促进学生和教师学习的最佳实践。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。