IUSE: Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Informal Visual Learning Tools on Educational Engineering Through Comics

IUSE：保护原则，图解：通过漫画分析非正式视觉学习工具对教育工程的影响

• 批准号: 2235827
• 负责人: Lucas Landherr
• 金额: $ 29.93万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUSE; Conservation; Principles; Illustrated; Analyzing

This project aims to serve the national interest by evaluating the impact of informal visual learning tools in undergraduate engineering courses through the use of comics. Engineering students have shown a prevalence for learning from visual learning tools, which represents a challenge when much of engineering instruction can be highly theoretical without obvious visual representation to support students’ comprehension. Developing better visual learning techniques and instruction would better communicate concepts while also helping students to more thoroughly engage with the information. Increasing the visual content of engineering instruction would promote students’ conceptual understanding. This project aims to address these challenges in engineering education through a dedicated, theoretically grounded, multi-institution study of multiple long-form comics across multiple concepts within a chemical engineering course. This project is the first study integrating a series of long-form educational comics over an entire engineering course, evaluating improvements in student interest, confidence, and understanding through the medium of comics. The project is positioned to develop a series of educational comics and integrate them into undergraduate chemical engineering course instruction of students of diverse backgrounds studying in different institutional contexts, and to evaluate changes in student motivation and comprehension. Studying the potential of comics in engineering education has the potential to help meet the increasing need for additional informal learning tools, by analyzing how well comics can provide another useful resource for instructors. The assessment of how comics can address the needs for more informal, visual, and representative learning approaches in undergraduate education can be beneficial to the field.This project will develop a series of comics and ConcepTest questions addressing concepts in a core introductory chemical engineering course, to be implemented into coursework at Northeastern University, North Carolina State University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Connecticut, Prairie View A&M University, and Cooper Union. This project represents the first dedicated study reviewing the impact of multiple long-form comics across multiple concepts within an engineering course. Through both formative and summative evaluation in this project, the project aims to address two central research questions: 1) What is the impact on student interest, confidence, and understanding through the use of comics in undergraduate learning environments? 2) What are the best practices for using comics as informal supplemental learning tools and what is the transportability of these practices? This project plans to apply the MUSIC model of academic motivation (eMpowerment, Usefulness, Success, Interest, and Caring) to assess the students’ interest in the subjects and confidence in their aptitude and determine how increases in student motivation lead to increased student learning. The project plans to study the effectiveness of a potentially transformative approach to instruction through the use of comics as informal, virtual learning tools. The NSF IUSE: EDU 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.

该项目旨在通过评估非正式视觉学习工具在本科工程课程中的影响来实现国家利益。工程专业的学生表现出了从视觉学习工具中学习的普遍性，这代表了一个挑战，当许多工程指导都可以是高度理论的而没有明显的视觉表示以支持学生理解的挑战。开发更好的视觉学习技术和说明将更好地沟通概念，同时还可以帮助学生更彻底地参与信息。增加工程教学的视觉内容将促进学生的概念理解。该项目的目的是通过对化学工程课程中多个概念的多种长形漫画进行专门的，理论上的，多机构的多机构研究来应对工程教育中的这些挑战。该项目是第一项研究，该研究整合了整个工程课程的一系列长期教育漫画，评估了通过漫画媒介评估学生兴趣，信心和理解的改善。该项目有定位，可以开发一系列的教育漫画，并将其整合到不同机构背景下学习的学生的基本化学工程课程指导，并评估学生动机和理解的变化。通过分析漫画如何为讲师提供另一个有用的资源，研究工程教育中漫画的潜力有可能帮助满足对其他非正式学习工具的需求。对漫画的评估如何满足了本科教育中更非正式，视觉和代表的学习方法的需求。该项目将在核心简介化学工程课程中开发一系列漫画和概念测试问题，该问题将在核心化学工程课程中实施，该概念将在北卡罗来纳大学，北卡罗来纳大学大学，肯塔基州大学，库里斯特大学和康斯特大学的校园中，将在北卡罗来纳大学的北卡罗来纳大学州立大学，杂志杂志上，杂志杂志。该项目代表了第一项专门研究，该研究回顾了工程课程中多个概念的多个长形漫画的影响。通过该项目中的形成性和总结性评估，该项目旨在解决两个中心研究问题：1）通过在本科学习环境中使用漫画对学生的兴趣，信心和理解有什么影响？ 2）将漫画用作非正式补充学习工具的最佳实践是什么？这些实践的运输能力是什么？该项目计划运用学术动机的音乐模型（授权，实用性，成功，兴趣和关怀），以评估学生对学科的兴趣和对自己能力的信心，并确定学生动机的增加如何导致学生学习的增加。该项目计划通过使用漫画作为非正式的虚​​拟学习工具来研究潜在的变革性方法的有效性。 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。通过敬业的学生学习轨道，该计划支持诺言的创建，探索和实施。实践和工具。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估诚实地支持了支持。