Collaborative Research: Creating a Bean Beetle Curriculum Development Network

生物科学（61）。“创建豆甲虫课程开发网络”是埃默里大学和莫尔豪斯学院之间的合作项目。该项目的目标是扩大利用豆甲虫模型系统（Callosobruchus maculatus）进行探究式实验室练习。有四个主要目标。第一个目标是利用教师研讨会，以及作为早期项目一部分创建的手册和网站，发展教师在探究性实验课程中使用豆甲虫的专业知识。为这些研讨会招募的教师将来自生物学科，如动物生理学、神经生物学、分子生物学、遗传学和发育生物学，这些在以前的项目中没有涉及。第二个目标是为讲习班的教师提供机会，使他们能够调整以前项目中开发的基于探究的实验室练习，以适应他们的课程和机构。要实现这一目标，就要允许在更多样化的教育机构中实施这些教育创新。第三个目标是让参加研讨会的教师在动物生理学、神经生物学、分子生物学、遗传学和发育生物学等领域利用豆甲虫开发和实施新的基于探究的实验室研究（即新的学习材料）。最后，第四个目标是网络参与者开发或调整评估工具来评估他们的新实验室练习并实施这些评估。该项目的智力价值在于探究性实验室实验的开发、测试和实施，这些实验已被证明可以提高学生对科学内容、实验设计和科学本质的理解。通过创建一个课程开发网络，该项目正在显著扩展生物学中的学科，这些学科将能够使用豆甲虫作为基于探究的实验课程的模型系统。动物生理学、神经生物学、分子生物学、遗传学和发育生物学等课程正在制作新的实验材料。最后，该项目正在评估探究性学习在生物学不同机构和学科的实验课程中的有效性。该项目的更广泛的影响来自于从各种机构招募教师参加讲习班。因此，在拟议的讲习班上建立的课程发展网络正在促进不同环境下更好的教与学。此外，这些研讨会正在建立伙伴关系，将继续改善生物学的实验室教育。此外，为了使代表性不足的少数民族更多地参与以探究为基础的研究，正在为社区学院和少数民族服务机构的教员留出一些讲习班时间。最后，课程开发网络参与者开发的材料正在通过专门的网站、本科STEM教育界年会上的研讨会和演讲，以及在与本科STEM教育相关的期刊上发表。

Biological Sciences (61). "Creating a Bean Beetle Curriculum Development Network" is a collaborative project between Emory University and Morehouse College. The goal of the project is to expand the use of inquiry-based laboratory exercises with the bean beetle model system, Callosobruchus maculatus. There are four primary objectives. The first objective is to use faculty workshops, along with the handbook and website created as part of an earlier project, to develop faculty expertise in the use of bean beetles in inquiry-based laboratory courses. The faculty recruited for these workshops will be from biology disciplines, such as animal physiology, neurobiology, molecular biology, genetics, and developmental biology that were not addressed in the previous project. The second objective is to provide faculty in the workshops the opportunity to adapt the inquiry-based laboratory exercises developed in the previous project to fit their curricula and institutions. Fulfilling this objective is allowing the implementation of these educational innovations in a greater diversity of educational institutions. The third objective is for faculty in the workshops to develop and implement new inquiry-based laboratory studies (i.e., new learning materials) using bean beetles in the areas of animal physiology, neurobiology, molecular biology, genetics, and developmental biology. Finally, the fourth objective is for network participants to develop or adapt assessment tools to evaluate their new laboratory exercises and to implement those assessments. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the development, testing and implementation of inquiry-based laboratory experiments, which have been shown to increase student understanding of scientific content, experimental design, and the nature of science. By creating a curriculum development network, the project is broadening significantly the disciplines within biology that will be able to use bean beetles as a model system for inquiry-based laboratory courses. New laboratory materials are being produced for courses in animal physiology, neurobiology, molecular biology, genetics, and developmental biology. Finally, the project is assessing the effectiveness of inquiry-based learning in laboratory courses across a diversity of institutions and disciplines in biology.The broader impacts of the project emerge from the recruitment of faculty for workshops from a diverse array of institutions. As a result, the curriculum development network established at the proposed workshops is promoting better teaching and learning in diverse settings. In addition, the workshops are establishing partnerships that will continue to improve laboratory education in biology. Furthermore, to increase involvement of under-represented minorities in inquiry-based research, some workshop slots are being set aside for faculty from community colleges and minority-serving institutions. Finally, the materials developed by participants in the curriculum development network are being disseminated through a devoted website, workshops and presentations at annual meetings of the undergraduate STEM education community, and publication in journals related to undergraduate STEM education.