Synthesizing Research on Spatial Taxonomies

空间分类综合研究

• 批准号: 2135743
• 负责人: David Uttal
• 金额: $ 9.89万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135743&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Synthesizing; Research; Spatial; Taxonomies

This award will support a series of workshops focused on spatial abilities and tests related to STEM education. Individual difference in spatial thinking has been tied to differences in STEM learning, but advances in applying these research findings to practice have been impeded by the lack of an organizing theory and related measurement protocols. The team of investigators from Northwestern University, Temple University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara propose to address this gap in the literature by convening a series of workshops and will produce a theoretical review and explication of taxonomies of spatial abilities and a consensus document that summarizes the most important next steps in research and development of spatial tests for STEM education. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports fundamental research that advances the research literature on STEM learning.The project will consist of a series of three meetings (both virtual and in-person) bringing together researchers from cognitive science, psychometrics, science education and discipline-based education research (DBER) fields. The iterative nature of the meetings is designed to facilitate consensus-making in developing the taxonomy. The participants will conduct a review of the literatures in multiple fields in order to bring into contact the various theoretical and analytic frameworks that have governed measurement of spatial cognition. Their preliminary findings will be presented at conferences in a number of different fields in order to get further input. The final documents will be written for wide dissemination.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.

该奖项将支持一系列针对与STEM教育有关的空间能力和测试的研讨会。空间思维的个体差异与STEM学习的差异有关，但是缺乏组织理论和相关的测量方案，将这些研究结果应用于实践的进展受到阻碍。西北大学，坦普尔大学和加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉分校的调查人员团队提议通过召集一系列研讨会来解决文献中的这一差距，并将对空间能力的分类学分类和共识文档进行理论审查和说明，以总结在空间教育的研究和开发中最重要的下一步。该项目由EHR Core Research（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持基础研究，该研究推进了有关STEM学习的研究文献。该项目将由一系列的三个会议（虚拟和亲自）组成，将认知科学，心理学，科学教育和基于科学教育和基于基于科学的教育研究（DBER）领域的研究人员聚集在一起。会议的迭代性质旨在促进制定分类法的共识。参与者将对多个领域的文献进行审查，以便与衡量空间认知测量的各种理论和分析框架联系。他们的初步发现将在许多不同领域的会议上介绍，以获取进一步的输入。最终文件将写为广泛的传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响评论标准的评估值得支持的。