FIRST III - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching: Developing the Scholarship of Scientific Teaching

FIRST III - 改革科学教学的学院：发展科学教学奖学金

• 批准号: 0618501
• 负责人: Diane Ebert-May
• 金额: $ 41.9万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FIRST; III; Faculty; Institutes; Reforming

Biological Science (61) This comprehensive project builds on the results and products from FIRST II, Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching through Field Stations. It is designing the instrument that can serve as the repository for existing data from this project and for data that will be generated by it and other funded projects. By establishing a repository for assessment data from undergraduate science courses the project develops faculty, postdoctoral and graduate students' capacity to implement scientific teaching and contribute to the scholarship of scientific teaching.Intellectual Merit: The assessment repository being developed documents outcomes of faculty professional development including assessment of student outcomes. Faculty from all fields of biology can input and retrieve data from the repository to explore questions about effective teaching and learning in undergraduate biology education. This project facilitates the difficult process of conducting cross-site studies using assessment data from large numbers of students and classes. The repository is the bridge between teaching and research that enables faculty to become both expert users of and contributors to the scholarship of scientific teaching. Existence of a common repository for evaluation and assessment data, one usable by a variety of faculty, facilitates the efforts of faculty engaged in reforms in undergraduate science education to have their efforts recognized, evaluated, and rewarded nationally and within their institutions. Broader Impact: Use of the repository promises to lead to increased appreciation for the importance of assessment of student learning in response to changes in instruction and can help in development of tested mechanisms for exploring undergraduate learning in the sciences. As scientists use the repository to document and explore student achievement in science, scholarly work about teaching and student learning should increase in quality, quantity and rigor. Studies of efforts in faculty professional development will also benefit from an enhanced ability to include scholarly work about student learning in specific STEM disciplines. Coordination with the BioSciEd Net (BEN) site of the National STEP Digital Library (NSDA) and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) ensures broad dissemination.

生物科学（61） 这个综合项目建立在FIRST II的成果和产品基础上，通过实地考察站改革科学教学的学院。它正在设计一种仪器，作为该项目现有数据以及该项目和其他受资助项目将产生的数据的存放处。通过建立本科科学课程评估数据库，该项目开发了教师、博士后和研究生实施科学教学的能力，并为科学教学奖学金做出了贡献。智力优势：正在开发的评估库记录了教师专业发展的成果，包括对学生成果的评估。来自生物学各个领域的教师可以从存储库中输入和检索数据，以探索本科生物学教育中有效教学和学习的问题。该项目有助于利用来自大量学生和班级的评估数据进行跨地点研究的困难过程。知识库是教学和研究之间的桥梁，使教师成为科学教学的学术专家用户和贡献者。 存在一个共同的评价和评估数据库，一个可用的各种教师，促进教师从事本科科学教育改革的努力，有他们的努力得到认可，评估和奖励国家和他们的机构。 更广泛的影响：使用的存储库的承诺，导致增加赞赏的重要性，评估学生的学习，以应对教学的变化，并可以帮助开发测试机制，探索本科学习的科学。随着科学家使用知识库来记录和探索学生在科学方面的成就，有关教学和学生学习的学术工作应该在质量、数量和严谨性上有所提高。在教师专业发展的努力研究也将受益于一个增强的能力，包括在特定的STEM学科的学生学习的学术工作。与国家STEP数字图书馆（NSDA）和国家生态分析和综合中心（NCEAS）的BioSciEd Net（BEN）网站协调，确保广泛传播。