Collaborative Research: Mentoring You is Learning for Me: Peer Mentor Preparation and Mentoring of Undergraduate Engineering Student Learning in Makerspaces

合作研究：指导你就是我的学习：同伴导师对本科生在创客空间学习的准备和指导

• 批准号: 2315230
• 负责人: Louis Nadelson
• 金额: $ 12.02万
• 依托单位: University of Central Arkansas
• 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: 2023-10-15 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Mentoring; Learning; Me

This project aims to serve the national interest by exploring the impact of a course designed to enhance peer mentors' capacity to facilitate learning in a makerspace-based course. Makerspaces are non-traditional learning environments where students learn to “tinker” and make things for the purpose of understanding how they work. Hands-on project-based learning – typical of makerspaces - can help students visualize abstract concepts bringing real world implications to light and making learning more interesting. Peer mentors often play a supervisory role in makerspaces and are knowledgeable about technical aspects of designing and prototyping. However, peer mentors' teaching preparation is usually minimal,thus limiting their capacity to facilitate student learning. This track 1 Engaged Student Learning IUSE project will design, implement and investigate the impact of peer mentor teaching preparation on their ability to facilitate learning in makerspaces. A variety of high impact practices, including role-playing, observation reporting, reflection and shadowing will be leveraged in a course specifically designed to significantly enhance peer mentors’ ability to facilitate student learning.The research planned intends to investigate the impact of the peer mentor teaching preparation course on both the peer mentor and the mentee. On the mentor side, impact on mentor professional identity, self-efficacy, leadership identity, and mentoring effectiveness will be evaluated. On the mentee side, engineering identity, sense of belonging, success, and team function will be investigated. The mentor preparation course will comprise training modules focused on a range of topics such as How People Learn, Education Methods Fundamentals, Diversity of Learners, Fostering a Growth Mindset, Effective Classroom Observation, Social Belonging, Inclusion, Student Identity, Fostering Teamwork, and Group Conflict Resolution. Training modules will be available online on an open-source basis, free for use by other institutions. Evaluation of the impact of the intervention will be accomplished through research questions to be investigated in a mixed methods study. Surveys, observations, interviews and reflections will be utilized to gather quantitative and qualitative data that will help determine the impact of the intervention on both the mentors and mentees. 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.

该项目旨在通过探索旨在提高同伴导师在基于创客空间的课程中促进学习能力的课程的影响来实现国家利益。创建空间是非传统学习环境，学生学会“修补”并为了解他们的工作方式做事。基于项目的动手学习（典型的创造者空间）可以帮助学生可视化抽象概念，从而使现实世界对光线产生影响并使学习更有趣。同伴导师经常在制造商空间中发挥监督作用，并且对设计和原型制作的技术方面知识渊博。但是，同伴导师的教学准备通常很少，从而限制了他们促进学生学习的能力。这条曲目1互动的学生学习IUSE项目将设计，实施和调查同伴导师教学准备对他们在制造商中促进学习能力的影响。在专门设计的课程中，将利用各种高影响力实践，包括角色扮演，观察报告，反思和阴影，以显着增强同伴导师的促进学生学习的能力。该研究计划的计划打算研究同行导师教学准备课程对同伴导师和导师的影响。在导师方面，将评估对导师职业身份，自我效能，领导身份和指导有效性的影响。在导师方面，将研究工程身份，归属感，成功和团队功能。心理准备课程将完成关注一系列主题的培训模块，例如人们学习，教育方法的基础知识，学习者的多样性，促进成长心态，有效的课堂观察，社会归属，包容，学生身份，促进团队合作和团体冲突解决方案。培训模块将以开源的方式在线提供，免费使用其他机构。评估干预措施的影响将通过在混合方法研究中进行研究的研究问题来完成。调查，观察，访谈和反思将用于收集定量和定性数据，这将有助于确定干预对导师和MENET的影响。 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。