CCLI:CREATE Cornerstone--Inspiring undergraduates to persist and succeed in the Biology major

生物科学（61）创建基石是一个新生级的小说C.R.E.A.T.E.改编。方法（考虑，阅读，阐明假设，分析数据，思考下一个实验;霍斯金斯等人，2007）。CREATE Cornerstone课程通过工具向新生教授数据分析的通用语言，这些工具通过促进可转移学习成果的发展，为科学专业的持久性和成功奠定了基础，同时改变了对谁做科学以及为什么做科学的误解。根据科学改革文件的建议，如生物2010年，创建基石（a）模拟工作科学家的智力活动，（B）指导学生学习如何学习生物信息，（c）帮助学生发现科学是一个向像他们这样的人开放的创造性领域。智力优点：创建基石是一个适应创建一个多重评估的教学方法证明，带来了显着增加的理解，和兴趣，生物研究，在初中/高中少数民族本科生。CREATE以前的工作通过产生关于少数民族学生学习的新知识和改善本科科学教学的实践，扩大了本科STEM教育实践的知识基础。为大一学生开发的CREATE Cornerstone正在导致类似的解决方案，广泛适用于入门级本科教育。 结果将通过赠款期间编写的《创建基石教师手册》广泛传播。 该手册旨在提供基于教育研究的课堂活动，使最佳实践能够被不同机构的多个级别（研究生，大学，9-12）的教师应用于不同的学生。更广泛的影响：创建基石模块的目的是：促进适用于需要批判性分析或解释能力的课程的可转移学习技能的发展;突出了来自各种背景和种族的男性和女性科学家的贡献;并为所有参与者提供，无论他们是否选择研究职业，更深入地了解科学过程和科学研究工作的进展。

Biological Sciences (61) CREATE Cornerstone is a freshman-level adaptation of the novel C.R.E.A.T.E. method (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze data, and Think of the next Experiment; Hoskins et al, 2007). The CREATE Cornerstone course is teaching freshmen the universal language of data analysis through tools that build a foundation for persistence and success in science majors by promoting development of transferable learning gains, while at the same time changing misconceptions about who does science and why. In alignment with recommendations of science reform documents, e.g. Bio 2010, CREATE Cornerstone (a) models the intellectual activities of working scientists, (b) guides students in learning how to learn biological information and (c) helps students discover that science is a creative field open to people like themselves. Intellectual merit: CREATE Cornerstone is an adaptation of CREATE a multiply-assessed pedagogical method demonstrated to bring about significant increases in both understanding of, and interest in, biological research, among junior/senior minority undergraduates. Previous work on CREATE has expanded the knowledge base of undergraduate STEM educational practice by producing new knowledge about minority student learning and by improving the practice of undergraduate science teaching. Development of CREATE Cornerstone for freshman students is leading to similar solutions with broad applicability for introductory level undergraduate education. Results will be broadly disseminated through the CREATE Cornerstone Teacher's Handbook being written during the grant period. The handbook is designed to provide class activities grounded in educational research, to allow best practices to be applied by teachers at multiple levels (graduate, college, 9-12) in diverse institutions to a diverse set of students. Broader impacts: CREATE Cornerstone modules are designed to: foster development of transferable learning skills applicable to courses requiring critical analysis or interpretive ability; highlight the contributions of a diverse set of scientists, both male and female and from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities; and provide all participants, whether or not they choose research careers, with a deeper understanding of the scientific process and of how science research efforts progress.