Community College Undergraduate Research: Building a Model of Integration

生物科学(61)国际生物研究所正在设计、实施和评估一个将本科生研究整合到社区大学科学课程中的模式。该项目的智力价值包括为一年级的科学课程开发基于探究的教材(基于问题的学习，案例研究)，以及一门学分较高的二年级课程，学生正在利用该课程进行本科生研究。这两个层面的课程改革都是由社区学院教师指导下开发的本科生研究计划推动的。新的学生研究项目是在第一年建立的，并在高级二年级课程中扩展。二年级的课程课程包括将学生培养为同行领导者，以支持从一年级课程中涌现的新学生项目的发展。该项目的更广泛影响包括一个为期一周的讲习班，正在利用讲习班培训来自芬格湖社区学院和另外两所社区学院(Genesee社区学院和门罗社区学院)的教员实地和实验室方法。为了实现项目目标，外国语学院正在与国家科学案例研究教学中心(NSF#0341279)和布拉多克湾猛禽研究中心合作开发项目材料和研究项目。该项目的结果正在全国生物教师会议上公布。

Biological Sciences (61)The PI is designing, implementing, and evaluating a model for integrating undergraduate research into a community college science curriculum. The intellectual merit of the project involves the development of inquiry-based educational materials (problem-based learning, case studies) for first-year science courses and a credit-bearing advanced sophomore-level course that is being used by students to conduct undergraduate research. The curriculum reform at both levels is being driven by undergraduate research initiatives developed under the mentorship of community college faculty. Novel student research projects are being established during the first year and expanded in the advanced sophomore-level course. The sophomore-level course curriculum includes training students as peer leaders to support the development of new student projects emerging from the freshman courses. The broader impacts of the project include a week-long workshop, which is being utilized to train faculty from Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) and two other community colleges (Genesee Community College and Monroe Community College) in field and laboratory methods. To achieve the project goals, FLCC is collaborating with the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, NSF #0341279) and Braddock Bay Raptor Research to develop project materials and research projects. Results of the project are being disseminated at a national conference of biology instructors.