Improving Undergraduate Science & Mathematics Education: A Science Deans Colloquium

提高本科生科学水平

• 批准号: 9353329
• 负责人: Jerry Bell
• 金额: $ 4.45万
• 依托单位: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-01-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9353329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Undergraduate; Science; & Mathematics

Among the concerns of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for undergraduate science and mathematics education are the large attrition of students from introductory to the intermediate courses and concomitant declining numbers of majors, lack of attractive offerings for non-science majors, poor science and mathematics preparation for prospective pre-college teachers, and inability to recruit and retain women and minority students. Other organizations, including the NSF, also have concerns and issues that they would like to bring to the attention of appropriate university faculty and administrators for action and/or comment. There is, at present, no single effective and efficient access point for presenting these to the higher education community , nor, more seriously, for coordinating and exchanging information among the science and mathematics departments at different institutions. This is a missing piece of the science and mathematics teaching/learning infrastructure. The AAAS proposes here a mechanism, a Science Deans Colloquium, for addressing the problem of access to the science and mathematics communities in large research universities with the long-term goal of improving undergraduate science and mathematics education through continued interaction among the Deans. ***

美国科学促进会（AAAS）对本科科学和数学教育的担忧包括从入门到中级课程的学生大量流失以及随之而来的专业数量下降，非科学专业缺乏有吸引力的课程，未来大学预科教师的科学和数学准备不足，以及无法招募和留住女性和少数族裔学生。 包括 NSF 在内的其他组织也有一些担忧和问题，希望提请相应的大学教职人员和管理人员注意，以采取行动和/或发表评论。 目前，还没有一个有效且高效的访问点可以将这些信息呈现给高等教育界，更严重的是，也没有可以在不同机构的科学和数学系之间协调和交换信息。 这是科学和数学教学/学习基础设施中缺失的一部分。 美国科学促进会在此提出了一种机制，即科学院长座谈会，用于解决大型研究型大学进入科学和数学社区的问题，其长期目标是通过院长之间的持续互动来改善本科科学和数学教育。 ***