Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Kırbulut Güneş Z. D., Rushton G.(Yürütücü), Reid J., Fateh S.
Diğer Uluslararası Fon Programları, 2019 - 2024
With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM EducationProgram: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this projectaims to serve the national interest by investigating factors that createeffective classroom environments for large undergraduate chemistrycourses. To accomplish this goal, the project will gather data from largeenrollment courses at the University of Iowa, the University of Arizona,Middle Tennessee State University, and Stonybrook University. It willuse these data to determine the features of collaborative activities thatfoster high-quality student engagement and meaningful learning.Special attention will be paid to the participation of diverse studentpopulations, such as first-generation college students and English-language learners. Core findings from this research project will be usedto develop and disseminate faculty resources that will support creationand implementation of effective classroom activities.The research design for this project is based on the understanding thatcollective activity is a sociological construct that fosters theconstruction of ideas through different patterns of interaction.Productive ways of reasoning emerge as learners solve problems,explain their thinking, and represent their ideas when engaged in well-designed and relevant tasks that are properly facilitated. Thus, at thecenter of the research design is the observation, recording, andanalysis of student-student as well as student-facilitator conversationsto: a) characterize critical characteristics of collaborative taskfacilitation that most strongly support productive engagement; b)explore how different features of task design (e.g., structure; focus;cognitive demand; opportunities for knowledge integration; co-construction of knowledge) affect students' modes of reasoning andproductive engagement in argumentation and explanation; and c)characterize the interaction of task design and facilitation with studentdiscourse in large chemistry classes and determine how thoseinteractions hinder or facilitate the productive engagement of diversestudents by reducing barriers to their equal participation in andcontribution to group work. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supportsresearch and development projects to improve the effectiveness ofSTEM education for all students. This project is in the Development andImplementation Tier, Engaged Student Learning Track. Through theEngaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation,exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.