Collaborative Learner-constructed Engineering-concept Articulation and Representation (CLEAR)
The focus of the CLEAR project is to implement engineering instructional practices that markedly increase retention, success, and satisfaction of diverse student populations across an engineering college.
The CLEAR model is being initiated in targeted "gateway" classes to significantly improve learning, social development, and engineering cultural identity for students. Learning communities developed among students and faculty will produce consistent long-term success. The goal of this one-year planning grant is to achieve reform in two or three "gateway" classes that serve all undergraduate engineering programs in the college and to build faculty capacity for college-wide adoption the focus of a subsequent implementation grant proposal.
Objectives:
- Adopt and refine the CLEAR instructional model for effective student learning and identification with an engineering community.
- Prepare course materials that support active learning of engineering concepts while employing the CLEAR instructional model.
- Build engineering faculty capacity for successful long-term adoption of the CLEAR instructional model in the college.
- Assess student learning and satisfaction and faculty effectiveness in using the CLEAR instructional model.
- Disseminate results for broad implementation of the CLEAR model in engineering education.
Project Scope
This project funded by the National Science Foundation under grant award #0530708.
Duration: 2005-2006
Funding Level: $100,000
Principal Investigators:
- Denny Davis
- Todd Johnson
- Christopher Hundhausen
- Gerald Maring
- Reid Miller