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

生物科学(61)Create Cornerstone是对新颖的C.R.E.A.T.E.方法(考虑、阅读、解释假设、分析数据并考虑下一个实验；Hoskins等人，2007)的新生水平的改编。Create Cornerstone课程通过工具向一年级新生传授数据分析的通用语言，这些工具通过促进可转移的学习成果的发展，为理科专业的坚持和成功奠定基础，同时改变对谁从事科学以及为什么从事科学的误解。根据科学改革文件的建议，例如《生物2010》，Create Cornerstone(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他们自己一样的人开放的创造性领域。智力优势：Create Cornerstone是Create的改编，它是一种多评估的教学方法，证明可以显著提高低年级/高年级少数族裔本科生对生物学研究的理解和兴趣。CREATE之前的工作通过产生关于少数民族学生学习的新知识和改进本科理科教学实践，扩大了本科STEM教育实践的知识库。针对新生的Create Cornerstone的开发正在导致类似的解决方案，具有广泛的适用性，适用于入门水平的本科教育。结果将通过在赠款期间编写的《创建基石教师手册》广泛传播。该手册旨在提供以教育研究为基础的课堂活动，允许不同机构的多个级别(研究生、大学、9-12岁)的教师将最佳做法应用于不同的学生群体。更广泛的影响：创建基石单元的目的是：促进可转让的学习技能的发展，适用于需要批判性分析或解释能力的课程；突出来自不同背景和族裔的不同性别的科学家的贡献；让所有参与者，无论他们是否选择研究职业，都更深入地了解科学进程和科学研究工作如何取得进展。

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.