An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 10: The ROAR Experience, Part I
| Autor: | Gabriella Colajanni, Alessandro Gobbi, Marinella Picchi, Alice Raffaele, Eugenia Taranto |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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distance learning
collaborative learning ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION grade 10 collaborative learning distance learning group projects teaching modeling teaching optimization teaching unit authentic problems grade 10 authentic problems Management Science and Operations Research teaching unit teaching optimization teaching modeling Education Management Information Systems group projects |
| Popis: | We introduce Ricerca Operativa Applicazioni Reali (ROAR; in English, Real Applications of Operations Research), a three-year project for higher secondary schools. Its main aim is to improve students’ interest, motivation, and skills related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines by integrating mathematics and computer science through operations research. ROAR offers examples and problems closely connected with students’ everyday life or with the industrial reality, balancing mathematical modeling and algorithmics. The project is composed of three teaching units, addressed to grades 10, 11, and 12. The implementation of the first teaching unit took place in Spring 2021 at the scientific high school IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy). In particular, in this paper, we provide a full description of this first teaching unit in terms of objectives, prerequisites, topics and methods, organization of the lectures, and digital technologies used. Moreover, we analyze the feedback received from students and teachers involved in the experimentation, and we discuss advantages and disadvantages related to distance learning that we had to adopt because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding: E. Taranto and G. Colajanni were partially supported by the research projects “Programma Ricerca di Ateneo UNICT 2020-22 linea 2,” “EEEP&DLaD,” and “OMNIA” of the University of Catania. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/ited.2022.0271 . |
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