S. Bartholomew, Greg J. Strimel, A. Lucietto, Mesut Akdere
Efforts to revamp existing educational systems and approaches result in various new models in STEM education. Accordingly, a new urban public charter school, located in a Midwest state in the United States, was established in partnership with the state’s land-grant university to create a transformed integrated STEM educational environment characterized by industry-focused and design-based learning to help prepare students for the future of work and learning. This article presents findings from an exploratory study that examined the experiences of teachers and administrative staff of this innovative high school (IHS) during the first year of school operation. A purposive sample of 16 teachers and administrators from the IHS completed a semi-structured interview and a focus group. Several themes—related to the experiences during the first year of the school—from the interviews with the participants emerged including: (1) developing novel approaches for planning and implementing design-based learning cycles, (2) facing challenges with personalized learning, (3) establishing methods for creating authentic and industry-driven learning experiences, (4) addressing challenges with open-ended learning, (5) confronting concerns about competencies that are not measured through standardized assessments, (6) struggling with teacher burnout, and (7) challenging traditional school systems and facilities with integrated learning environments. Based on these findings, potential implications, considerations, and future directions for the implementation of innovative industry- driven, design-based educational approaches are provided.
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Sweta Baniya, N. Mentzer, S. Bartholomew, Amelia Chesley, Cameron Moon, Derek Sherman
Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ) is an assessment method that facilitates holistic, flexible judgments of student work in place of more quantitative or rubric-based methods. This method “requires little training, and has proved very popular with assessors and teachers in several subjects, and in several countries” (Pollitt 2012, p. 281). This research explores ACJ as a holistic, flexible, interdisciplinary assessment and research tool in the context of an integrated program that combines Design, English Composition, and Communications courses. All technology students at Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University are required to take each of these three core courses. Considering the interdisciplinary nature of the program’s curriculum, this research first explored whether three judges from differing backgrounds could reach an acceptable level of reliability in assessment using only ACJ, without the prerequisites of similar disciplinary backgrounds or significant assessment experience, and without extensive negotiation or other calibration efforts. After establishing acceptable reliability among interdisciplinary judges, analysis was also conducted to investigate differences in student learning between integrated (i.e., interdisciplinary) and non-integrated learning environments. These results suggest evaluators from various backgrounds can establish acceptable levels of reliability using ACJ as an alternative assessment tool to more traditional measures of student learning. This research also suggests technology students in the integrated/ interdisciplinary environment may have demonstrated higher learning gains than their peers and that further research should control for student differences to add confidence to these findings.
适应性比较判断(ACJ)是一种评估方法，它有助于对学生作业进行整体、灵活的判断，取代了更多的定量或基于规则的方法。这种方法“几乎不需要培训，并且在几个科目和几个国家的评估人员和教师中非常受欢迎”(Pollitt 2012, p. 281)。本研究将ACJ作为一种综合的、灵活的、跨学科的评估和研究工具，将设计、英语写作和传播课程结合起来。普渡大学理工学院的所有技术专业学生都必须学习这三门核心课程。考虑到该项目课程的跨学科性质，本研究首先探讨了来自不同背景的三名法官是否可以在仅使用ACJ的评估中达到可接受的可靠性水平，而不需要类似的学科背景或重要的评估经验，也不需要广泛的谈判或其他校准工作。在建立了跨学科评判的可接受信度之后，我们还对综合(即跨学科)和非综合学习环境之间的学生学习差异进行了分析。这些结果表明，来自不同背景的评估者可以使用ACJ来建立可接受的可靠性水平，作为更传统的学生学习测量的替代评估工具。这项研究还表明，综合/跨学科环境中的技术学生可能比同龄人表现出更高的学习收益，进一步的研究应该控制学生的差异，以增加对这些发现的信心。
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Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.5040/9781474293679.ch-001
E. Shove
Abstract: The article highlights the intersection between design, STS and consumption outlining practices as the central unit of analysis. The paper illustrates this perspective with reference to a variety of examples, including home improvements and do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, digital photography and plastic stuff. In the paper some questions are raised: where does competence lie? Does it reside in the human or in the non-human, or in the relation between the two? What does the concept of a human-non-human hybrid mean for the sociology of consumption? And how does the humanmaterial distribution of competences affect the details of everyday life and what people do? Keywords: Design; STS; consumption; material culture; theory of practice.
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