Beyond Success: Transforming Learning by Helping Students to Thrive

超越成功：通过帮助学生成长来转变学习方式

• 批准号: 2314994
• 负责人: John Chen
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University Foundation
• 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: 2023-11-01 至 2026-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314994&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Beyond; Success; Transforming; Learning; Helping

This project aims to serve the national interest by helping engineering and computing students to thrive, rather than just attain good grades. This has the potential to retain more students in engineering and improve their graduation rate. Thriving students actively pursue the twin goals of 'doing well' and 'feeling good' as part of their education. This project aspires to begin transforming the culture of engineering education from one in which students strive solely to succeed academically (the 'doing well') to one in which they also seek wellbeing. Achieving this goal would lead to a culture of thriving among engineering and computing students that does not currently exist. Students can do this by learning and adopting thriving competencies - skills, behaviors and beliefs - to boost the 'feeling good' part of thriving. This project aims to develop a series of competency-based interventions to improve, for example, engineering identity, belongingness, gratitude, mindfulness, mindset and stress management, and to test their efficacy. Achieving the project goals will advance the understanding of the role of thriving in engineering education and its impact on graduating more engineers to meet the nation's needs.This project builds on what is known about noncognitive and affective factors - factors not related to talent or intelligence but are proven to be powerfully associated with academic success, sometimes in nonintuitive ways. The project team will execute a well-designed plan to develop, test and deploy thriving competencies through mobile applications (or 'apps'), classroom-based activities, and extracurricular or club activities. The deployment scheme for each competency will be guided by prior research on effective interventions and supported by evidence. The plan will also include partnering with both academic and Student Affairs units at the test school and will gather data to measure the efficacy of various initiatives through direct quantitative measures using survey instruments and sound analytical methods. Finally, the project evaluation will include student interviews to determine whether students have adopted the thriving competencies into their educational toolset. The broader impacts of this project are achieved in two ways. First, this project will work with underserved students, defined as underrepresented minority, first-generation or low-income students. This choice addresses historic educational inequities and ensures that these students are served. Second, this project will disseminate the successful parts of the project to additional partner schools to test the efficacy of the initiatives more widely and in diverse educational contexts. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过帮助工程学和计算学生蓬勃发展，而不仅仅是获得良好的成绩来服务国家利益。这有可能保留更多的学生在工程上并提高其毕业率。蓬勃发展的学生积极追求“做得好”和“感觉良好”作为他们教育的一部分的双重目标。该项目渴望开始将工程教育的文化从研究中，在这种文化中仅仅努力在学术上（“做得好”）转变为他们也寻求福祉的文化。实现这一目标将导致工程和计算学生目前不存在的学生的繁荣文化。学生可以通过学习和采用繁荣的能力（技能，行为和信念）来做到这一点，以增强蓬勃发展的“感觉良好”一部分。该项目旨在开发一系列基于能力的干预措施，例如改善工程身份，归属感，感恩，正念，思维方式和压力管理，并测试其功效。实现项目目标将促进对蓬勃发展在工程教育中的作用及其对毕业更多工程师以满足国家需求的影响的理解。该项目以对非认知和情感因素的了解为基础事实证明，有时以非直觉的方式与学术成功相关。项目团队将执行精心设计的计划，通过移动应用程序（或“应用程序”），基于教室的活动以及课外或俱乐部活动来制定，测试和部署繁荣的能力。每种能力的部署计划将由先前的有效干预措施的研究指导，并得到证据的支持。该计划还将包括与测试学校的学术和学生事务部门合作，并将通过使用调查工具和合理分析方法的直接定量措施来收集数据，以衡量各种计划的功效。最后，项目评估将包括学生访谈，以确定学生是否已将蓬勃发展的能力采用到其教育工具集中。该项目的更广泛影响是通过两种方式实现的。首先，该项目将与服务不足的学生一起工作，该项目定义为代表性不足的少数民族，第一代或低收入学生。这种选择解决了历史性的教育不平等，并确保为这些学生提供服务。其次，该项目将把项目的成功部分传播给其他合作伙伴学校，以在多种教育环境下更广泛地测试该计划的功效。 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。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持努力在高等教育和纪律社区的机构之间进行改造和改善STEM教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估的，并被认为是值得的支持。审查标准。