Connecting Undergraduate to the Enterprise of Science

跨学科(99)在科学入门课程中纳入探究的一个主要障碍是，教职员工认为这样做需要教育学的全面变革，这被认为是不切实际的。这个项目开发了直接解决这个障碍的材料和方法，通过以一种可访问的方式将探究引入本科生实验室。该项目具有智力价值，因为它采用了一种成功的教师发展模式，将食谱实验室转变为基于探究的练习。实验室材料的一个主要特点是，它们明确地将科学文献建模为学生调查的指南。该项目团队包括来自博士生密集机构、私立文理学院、城市博士密集机构和城市社区学院的教职员工和未来教师。该项目对大多数类型公立高等学校的本科专业和非专业STEM教育都有广泛的影响。50名教职员工和未来的教职员工参与了这个项目，他们的教学影响了3000多名学生。与该计划相结合的教育研究评估并加强了这些探究方法的结合。几个机构之间的合作伙伴关系通过让许多教师参与材料开发来示范STEM教育的合作改革。

Interdisciplinary (99) A major barrier to the incorporation of inquiry in introductory science courses is faculty believe that doing so requires a full-scale transformation of pedagogy, which is regarded as impractical. This project develops materials and methods that directly address this barrier by introducing inquiry into the undergraduate laboratory in an accessible manner. The project has intellectual merit by adapting a successful mode of faculty development to convert cookbook laboratories into inquiry-based exercises. A key feature of the laboratory materials is that they explicitly model the scientific literature as a guide to student investigation. The project team includes faculty and future faculty from a doctoral extensive institution; a private liberal arts college; an urban doctoral intensive institution; and an urban community college. The project has broad impact on undergraduate STEM education for majors and non-majors in most types of public higher education institutions. Fifty faculty and future faculty participate in the project and their teaching impacts over 3000 students. Educational research allied with the program evaluates and enhances the incorporation of these inquiry methods. The partnership among the several institutions models the cooperative reform of STEM education by involving many faculty in materials development.