Building Capacity in STEM Education Research via the POGIL Community

通过 POGIL 社区建设 STEM 教育研究能力

• 批准号: 1954427
• 负责人: Richard Moog
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: The POGIL Project
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954427&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; STEM; Education; Research

This project aims to promote discipline-based education research (DBER) within the Process-oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) community of practitioners. Specifically, the project team will host a workshop for early- and mid-career POGIL practitioners led by a team of five DBER scholars. The goal of this event is to introduce current POGIL practitioners to the knowledge and skills involved in design, implementation, and methodology of STEM education research. The participants will be placed into teams of four based on their research interests. Over the following year, the teams will be supported to develop and implement a DBER project related to the POGIL approach. This support will include regular virtual meetings where one of the DBER scholars will serve as mentor. A final follow-up meeting will be held at the end of the year to assess progress and plan for future work. The participants’ extensive experience with students and POGIL learning environments will provide a rich base of practice from which to develop and investigate meaningful research questions. This project has the potential to be transformative for the sixteen veteran POGIL practitioners who will participate, positioning them to be new contributors of high-quality STEM education research. The results of their research will provide new evidence about the impact of the POGIL pedagogy on student outcomes, learning of diverse and at-risk student populations, and instructors’ teaching skills. The project is designed to develop a large research team that can explore POGIL pedagogy in multifaceted ways, thus addressing a challenge posed in the NRC’s 2012 Discipline-Based Education Research report. This project will also examine the impact of each component of the conference model, including involvement of people with existing community membership, conference session content and process, continued mentoring, and team structure. This project may help integrate the large POGIL community of practitioners more strongly with the DBER research community, thus enhancing the opportunities for research to inform STEM pedagogy and for STEM pedagogy to inform research. This project is supported by the ECR: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research competition of the EHR Core Research (ECR) program. ECR funds STEM education research projects that are focused on STEM learning and learning environment, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM professional workforce development.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.

该项目旨在促进面向过程的引导探究学习 (POGIL) 从业者社区内的基于学科的教育研究 (DBER) 具体而言，项目团队将为由团队领导的早期和中期职业 POGIL 从业者举办研讨会。本次活动的目标是向当前的 POGIL 实践者介绍 STEM 教育研究的设计、实施和方法，参与者将根据他们的研究技能兴趣被分成四人一组。次年，将支持团队开发和实施与 POGIL 方法相关的 DBER 项目，这种支持将包括定期举行虚拟会议，其中一位 DBER 学者将担任导师，最后的后续会议将在会议结束时举行。参与者在学生和 POGIL 学习环境中的丰富经验将为开发和调查有意义的研究问题提供丰富的实践基础，该项目有可能为 16 名退伍军人带来变革。将参与的POGIL从业者，对他们进行定位成为高质量 STEM 教育研究的新贡献者。他们的研究结果将为 POGIL 教学法对学生成绩、多样化和高危学生群体的学习以及教师教学技能的影响提供新的证据。旨在建立一个大型研究团队，能够以多方面的方式探索 POGIL 教学法，从而解决 NRC 2012 年基于学科的教育研究报告中提出的挑战。该项目还将研究其影响。会议模式的每个组成部分，包括现有社区成员的参与、会议会议内容和流程、持续指导和团队结构。该项目可能有助于将大型 POGIL 从业者社区与 DBER 研究社区更紧密地结合起来，从而增强。为 STEM 教育学提供研究机会以及为研究提供 STEM 教育学机会 该项目得到 EHR 核心研究 (ECR) 计划的 STEM 教育研究能力建设竞赛的支持，该项目资助 STEM 教育研究项目。重点关注 STEM 学习和学习环境、扩大 STEM 领域的参与以及 STEM 专业劳动力发展。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。