Developing a Digital Platform for Providing Scalable and Actionable Feedback to Support Students' Development of Professional Skills

开发一个数字平台，提供可扩展且可操作的反馈，以支持学生的专业技能发展

• 批准号: 2235606
• 负责人: Suzanne Ruder
• 金额: $ 44.43万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Digital; Platform; Providing; Scalable

This project serves the national interest by developing a digital platform and classroom strategies for instructors to improve student professional skills across the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The explicit development of these skills (also known as transferable, process, 21st century, or soft skills) is of critical importance to prepare students for successful careers in science and technology. Skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and communication have been identified as essential for a modern national workforce by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine as well reports from many industries and employers. These reports further identify that increased proficiency in student professional skills will ensure undergraduates a more successful launch as they begin their careers. In this project, a digital platform will be developed that leverages the Enhancing Learning by Improving Process Skills project, a novel and widely available feedback-based skills rubric. This project will provide strategies for instructors in classrooms of all sizes to help them develop and evaluate student professional skills. The digital platform and classroom strategies will also allow instructors to provide students with rapid feedback and effective coaching on how to improve their professional skills. This innovative project brings attention to the development of student professional skills as it will increase students’ insights into the importance of these skills for scientists and advance their preparation for future STEM careers. This project will help students develop and improve their professional skills in STEM classrooms by using a scalable digital platform based on novel feedback-based skill rubrics from the Enhancing Learning by Improving Process Skills project (ELIPSS.com). This project will conduct research on how feedback and self-assessment can help students improve their professional skills, as well as examine how external and tailored feedback can help students become self-regulated learners. The project team will design and pilot a digital platform to streamline assessment and actionable feedback delivery to students, using a multidisciplinary team of STEM instructors from a range of class sizes and institutional settings to ensure the application’s utility and adoptability. Through interviews and survey responses, instructional team members will identify optimum strategies for generating and delivering feedback to students that is both impactful and timely. Data will be collected on the ways in which students interact with the suggestions for improving skill development; these data will be analyzed to gauge how they responded to this feedback and whether it helped them improve their skills. Students will complete a validated science motivation questionnaire to collect their insights on how their development of professional skills may further motivate them towards STEM majors and careers. Five culminating goals and outcomes provide a framework for the execution of this project. First is the creation of a digital platform, which is preloaded with customizable professional skills rubrics that were a product of the NSF-funded ELIPSS project. Second, a team of instructors from a range of STEM disciplines and institutions across the country will implement and subsequently disseminate these materials. Third is the development of a set of materials and training protocols to train additional instructors to use the skill-building rubrics and digital platform. Fourth is the assembly of a collection of best instructional practices to optimize student interaction with feedback on their professional skill development. Fifth, and finally, is an advanced understanding of how these efforts impact students - promoting their skill development, their perception of the importance of these skill for scientists, and their preparation for future STEM careers. Overall, the broad scope of this project will enable greater integration of professional skill development into undergraduate STEM programs - the digital platform and classroom strategies are designed to be used in all disciplines, class sizes and institutional settings and will rapidly impact a large number of students. These students will enter the STEM workforce with key preparation in valued professional skills that will better ensure their success. Even more broadly, the tools and classroom strategies developed through this project will support the advancement of STEM education on multiple levels: they support active learning pedagogies, support skill-based programmatic assessment, and provide a data-collection mechanism for future education research. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through its 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.

该项目通过制定数字平台和课堂策略来供讲师提高科学，技术，工程和数学领域的学生专业技能（STEM），为国家兴趣。这些技能的明确发展（也称为可转移，过程，21世纪或软技能）对于为学生准备科学和技术的成功职业至关重要。批判性思维，解决问题，协作和沟通等技能已被美国国家科学，工程和医学学院以及许多行业和雇主的报告确定为现代国家劳动力。这些报告进一步确定，提高学生专业技能的专业精神将确保本科生在开始职业生涯时更成功的推出。在这个项目中，将开发一个数字平台，通过提高过程技能项目来利用增强学习，这是一个新颖且可广泛的基于反馈的技能标题。该项目将为各种规模的教室的讲师提供策略，以帮助他们发展和评估学生的专业技能。数字平台和课堂策略还将允许讲师为学生提供快速反馈和有效的指导，以提高其专业技能。这个创新的项目引起了学生专业技能的发展，因为这将增加学生对这些技能对科学家的重要性的见解，并提高他们为未来的STEM职业做准备。该项目将通过改善过程技能项目（ELIPSS.COM），利用基于新颖的基于反馈的技能来提高基于反馈的技能的可扩展数字平台来帮助学生在STEM教室中发展和提高他们的专业技能。该项目将研究反馈和自我评估如何帮助学生提高专业技能，并研究外部和量身定制的反馈如何帮助学生成为自我调节的学习者。项目团队将使用来自各种班级规模和机构设置的STEM讲师组成的多学科团队来设计和试行数字平台，以简化对学生的评估和可行的反馈交付，以确保应用程序的实用性和采用性。通过访谈和调查答复，教学团队成员将确定最佳的策略，以产生和向既有影响力和及时的学生提供反馈。将收集有关学生与改善技能发展的建议的方式的数据；这些数据将进行分析，以衡量他们如何回应此反馈，以及它是否帮助他们提高了技能。学生将完成一份经过验证的科学动机问卷，以收集他们对他们的专业技能发展如何进一步激励他们迈向STEM专业和职业的见解。五个最终的目标和成果为执行该项目提供了一个框架。首先是创建一个数字平台，该平台预先添加了可定制的专业技能专栏，这些专业技能是NSF资助的ELIPS项目的产物。其次，来自全国各种STEM学科和机构的一组教练团队将实施并随后传播这些材料。第三是开发一组材料和培训方案，以培训其他讲师使用技能构建专栏和数字平台。第四是一系列最佳教学实践的组装，以通过反馈其专业技能开发来优化学生的互动。第五，最后是对这些努力如何影响学生的深入了解 - 促进他们的技能发展，对这些技能对科学家的重要性的看法以及对未来STEM职业的准备。总体而言，该项目的广泛范围将使专业技能开发更多地集成到本科STEM计划中 - 数字平台和课堂策略旨在用于所有学科，班级规模和机构环境中，并将迅速影响许多学生。这些学生将以有价值的专业技能的关键准备进入STEM劳动力，这将更好地确保他们的成功。更广泛地说，通过该项目制定的工具和课堂策略将支持STEM教育在多个层面上的发展：它们支持积极的学习教学，支持基于技能的计划评估，并为未来的教育研究提供数据收集机制。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过其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标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。