Collaborative Research: The Math Your Earth Science Majors Need, When They Need It: Improving Quantitative Skills in The Future Earth Science Workforce

协作研究：地球科学专业学生在需要时需要的数学：提高未来地球科学劳动力的定量技能

• 批准号: 2234225
• 负责人: Beth Pratt-Sitaula
• 金额: $ 28.45万
• 依托单位: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-12-01 至 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Math; Your; Earth

This project will serve the US national interest by strengthening undergraduate Earth science majors' proficiency and confidence with quantitative skills and reasoning, resulting in students who better understand Earth processes and are prepared for geoscience careers. It is a Tier 2 project on the Engaged Student Learning Track. Quantitatively skilled Earth science graduates are critical to meeting the needs of the workforce and the country. However, the application of math skills in a geoscience context is fraught with difficulties such as the uneven preparation of students, gatekeeper mathematics prerequisite courses, faculty who are not trained to teach quantitative skills, student math anxiety, and the cognitive difficulty of transferring mathematical skills to a specific science context. This project will develop the needed curricular resources and faculty professional development to significantly improve geoscience majors’ disciplinary math capabilities. The project will improve the quantitative skills and confidence of Earth science undergraduates by a multi-pronged approach: 1) developing co-curricular modules to support majors-level quantitative skill development within Earth science courses and programs; 2) organizing faculty professional development for developing and integrating these resources; and 3) conducting educational research on effective implementation strategies and student skill progression and attitudes. Central to the resource design will be the application of math skills to Earth science applications with examples drawn from a variety of sub-disciplines. Module authors having a range of geoscience disciplinary expertise will be recruited to ensure broad applicability of the resulting resources. Assessment and evaluation will be carried out by the project principal investigators and an external evaluator. The modular approach will allow faculty to adopt modules appropriate for their individual courses and help scaffold quantitative skills across geoscience curricula or into dedicated quantitative geoscience courses. The free online module collection will be hosted on the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) site. The project will also work with SERC to improve instructor discovery of existing activity collections in which students can further apply the quantitative skills they have developed using modules written in this project. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目将通过加强本科生科学专业的熟练程度和信心，以定量技能和推理来为美国国家的利益提供服务，从而使学生更好地了解地球过程并为地球科学职业做好准备。这是订婚的学生学习轨道上的2级项目。定量熟练的地球科学毕业生对于满足劳动力和国家的需求至关重要。但是，数学技能在地球科学背景下的应用是充满困难，例如学生的准备工作，守门员数学的前提课程，未经培训来教授定量技能，学生数学焦虑以及将数学技能转移到特定科学环境的认知难度。该项目将开发所需的课程资源和教师专业发展，以显着提高地球科学专业的纪律数学能力。该项目将通过多管齐全的方法来提高地球科学本科生的定量技能和信心：1）开发课程模块，以支持大满贯级的地球科学课程和计划中的定量技能发展； 2）组织教师专业发展以开发和整合这些资源； 3）关于有效实施策略以及学生技能的进步和参加的教育研究。资源设计的核心是将数学技能应用于地球科学应用程序，并从各种子学科中得出的示例。将招募拥有一系列地球科学纪律专业知识的模块作者，以确保广泛应用所得资源。评估和评估将由项目主要研究人员和外部评估进行。模块化的方法将使教师能够采用适合其各个课程的模块，并帮助整个地球科学课程或专门的定量地球科学课程帮助脚手架定量技能。免费的在线模块集合将托管在科学教育资源中心（SERC）网站上。该项目还将与SERC合作，以改善教师发现现有活动收集的发现，其中学生可以使用本项目中编写的模块进一步运用他们开发的定量技能。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习轨道，该计划支持了承诺实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。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，被认为是珍贵的支持。