Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)
Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)
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生物教育研究促进会 (SABER)
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2011
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Robin Wright
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E. Offerdahl;Teresa C. Balser;Clarissa Dirks;Kathryn Miller;Jennifer L. Momsen;L. Montplaisir;Marcy P. Osgood;Karen Sirum;M. Wenderoth;Brian White;W. Wood;Michelle Withers;Robin Wright
生物学教育研究（BER）可以为生物学教育现代化和转型的艰巨任务做出重大贡献。然而，作为一个相对年轻和仍然很小的领域的研究人员，BER从业者现在发现自己分散在64个生物学相关的社会，缺乏对核心研究议程，方便的专业网络和传播场所的协议。为了开始解决这些需求，新成立的生物学教育研究促进协会（SABER）于2010年9月在明尼苏达大学双城分校举行了成立大会。29名参与者（图1）包括从事实证研究和专业发展的教师，博士后研究员和研究生，以及期刊编辑，教科书作者和教科书编辑。这个小组的多样性有助于一个深思熟虑的，反思的，富有成效的会议，其主要目标是1）定义BER，2）确定其实践的挑战，3）制定总体研究问题，以及4）概述SABER在支持BER社区中的作用。下文各段介绍了与会者对每一项目标的共识。
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SABER创始成员：泰瑞·巴瑟，克拉丽莎·德克斯，玛丽帕特·文德罗斯，珍妮特·布兰乔，罗布·布鲁克，佩吉·布里克曼，马尔科姆·坎贝尔，马克·康奈利，艾琳·多兰，斯科特·弗里曼，马克·亨斯，珍妮·奈特，凯瑟琳·米勒，詹妮弗·蒙森，丽莎·蒙普莱西尔，.
本次会议的成果是及时的背景下，最近发布的总结报告的愿景和变化在本科教育，呼吁采取行动，其中负责生物学界与“创建，使用，评估和传播有效的教学和学习的做法”（美国科学促进会，2010年）。通过提供创建一个充满活力的从业者网络所需的基础设施，SABER处于有利地位，以支持生物教育研究人员生成经验证据，可以影响本科生物教育的有意义的变化。
Biology education research (BER) can be a major contributor to the herculean task of modernizing and transforming biology education. However, as researchers in a relatively young and still small field, BER practitioners now find themselves fragmented across 64 biology-related societies and lacking agreement on a core research agenda, a convenient professional network, and venues of dissemination. To begin addressing these needs, the newly formed Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) held an inaugural meeting in September 2010 at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. The 29 participants (Figure 1) included faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students engaged in empirical research and professional development, as well as journal editors, textbook writers, and a textbook editor. The diversity of this group contributed to a thoughtful, reflective, and productive meeting, whose major goals were to 1) define BER, 2) identify challenges to its practice, 3) formulate overarching research questions, and 4) outline the role of SABER in supporting the BER community. The consensus views of the participants on each of these goals are described in the paragraphs below.
Figure 1:
SABER Founding Members: Teri Balser, Clarissa Dirks, Mary Pat Wenderoth, Janet Branchaw, Rob Brooker, Peggy Brickman, Malcolm Campbell, Mark Connelly, Erin Dolan, Scott Freeman, Mark Hens, Jenny Knight, Kathryn Miller, Jennifer Momsen, Lisa Montplaisir, ...
The outcomes of this meeting are timely in the context of the recently released summary report Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education, A Call to Action, which charged the biology community with “creating, using, assessing, and disseminating effective practices in teaching and learning” (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010 ). By providing the infrastructure needed to create a vibrant network of practitioners, SABER is well positioned to support biology education researchers in generating empirical evidence that can effect meaningful changes in undergraduate biology education.