Building a Calculus Active Learning Environment Equally Beneficial Across a Diverse Student Population

建立一个对不同学生群体同样有益的微积分主动学习环境

• 批准号: 2315747
• 负责人: Melinda Lanius
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: Auburn 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: 2024-01-15 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315747&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Calculus; Active; Learning; Environment

This project aims to serve the national interest by implementing evidence-based active learning in a calculus course at Auburn University, a large public research-intensive university located in Alabama, an Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) state. Inspired by the Merit Program for Emerging Scholars from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this project plans to establish Merit recitation sections at Auburn University. In this type of recitation, students have extended class time to work collaboratively in groups on challenging tasks with a highly-trained facilitator. Recent studies have revealed that in some implementations of active learning, students from historically disenfranchised groups do not benefit to the same extent as other groups. This project plans to investigate this important issue, aiming to establish instructional best practices to enhance academic outcomes and encourage STEM persistence, with a specific focus on tapping the full spectrum of diverse talent at the institution. A significant aspect of this project will incorporate the use of fitness trackers in education research to inform structural and curricular changes that will enhance student learning in calculus. The project’s goals are to build an evidence-based calculus active learning program and determine stressors during the initial program implementation. The project intends to develop strategies and interventions, as well as restructure the active learning environment, to remove unintentional, ungrounded pedagogical stressors from the learning environment. Further, the project plans to develop supports to minimize students’ psychological distress during intentionally-placed instructional stressors. The project team will measure students’ heart rate variability with a fitness tracker to identify when students might be experiencing distress during active learning. The program will be refined using insights gained from students’ heart rate data, self-reported levels of stress, and academic outcomes. In addition, the project's scope includes contributing to the burgeoning field of in situ research in educational settings by helping to establish robust and valid methods for classroom sensor data collection. 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.

该项目旨在通过在奥本大学的微积分课程中实施基于证据的主动学习来服务国家利益，奥本大学是一所位于阿拉巴马州的大型公立研究密集型大学，是一个受优点启发的刺激竞争性研究 (EPSCoR) 州的既定计划。伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的新兴学者项目，该项目计划在奥本大学设立优秀背诵部分，在这种类型的背诵中，学生们延长了课堂时间以进行协作。最近的研究表明，在一些主动学习的实施中，来自历史上被剥夺权利的群体的学生并没有像其他群体那样受益，该项目的任务是调查这一重要问题。建立教学最佳实践，以提高学术成果并鼓励 STEM 坚持，特别注重挖掘机构内的全方位多元化人才，该项目的一个重要方面将在教育研究中使用健身追踪器，为结构和课程提供信息。将会增强的改变该项目的目标是建立一个基于证据的微积分主动学习计划，并确定计划实施初期的压力源，并重建主动学习环境，以消除无意的、此外，该项目计划开发支持措施，以最大程度地减少学生在故意放置的教学压力下的心理困扰。项目团队将使用健身追踪器测量学生的心率变异性，以识别学生的心率变化。该项目将利用从学生的心率数据、自我报告的压力水平和学业成绩中获得的见解来完善。此外，该项目的范围还包括为新兴的现场研究领域做出贡献。 NSF IUSE：EDU 计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性。创造、探索和实施有前途的该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。