RCN-UBE Incubator: Creating a Network of Undergraduate Biology Education Researchers

在具有教育专业的新兴科学领域中，发展最快的分支学科群是生物学。然而，这些教师在生物学的子学科中是孤立和分散的，没有一个会议或社会让生物学教师聚集在一起交流思想，制定研究议程，建立合作。我们将通过组织一个研讨会来解决这个问题，为建立一个领导、愿景和网络奠定基础，以促进和维持生物学的学术工作。我们将确定过去5-10年生物教育研究的主要进展，并确定该领域的主要研究问题，如何支持和推进高质量和严格的假设驱动研究，以及如何最好地从我们在STEM教育研究中的同事的工作中学习。这次会议的结果将是一篇记录会议过程的论文，一个促进网络的wiki，以及一个完整的RCN-UBE提案草案，以创建一个新社会，促进生物教育研究协会，SABER。智力优势：生物教育研究领域的努力不像其他科学学科的类似研究那样集中。我们缺乏一个共同的数据库（比如PubMed）来报告我们的研究成果和那些学习科学的成果，这导致了重复的工作和缺乏共同的基础知识。本次研讨会将讨论这些和其他基础设施问题，并为未来的生物教育研究制定议程。更广泛的影响：研究工作的协调将促进大学生学习生物学的更快进步，这将有利于当前和未来的本科生，特别是少数族裔，他们离开基础科学和生命科学的比例远高于其他大学学科。通过提高我们对如何最好地帮助学生学习生物学的理解，我们也许能够阻止生物学人才的流失。该项目由生物科学局和本科教育司联合支持。

The fastest growing sub-disciplinary group within the emerging field of science faculty with education specialties is biology. Yet, these faculty are isolated and fragmented across the sub-disciplines of biology, and there is no one meeting or society where biology faculty come together to exchange ideas, set research agendas, and build collaborations. We will begin to address this issue by organizing a workshop to lay the groundwork for establishing a leadership, vision and network to promote and maintain scholarly work in biology. We will identify the major advances in biology education research in the past 5-10 years, and determine the major research questions of the field, how to support and advance high quality and rigorous hypothesis-driven research, and how best to learn from the work of our colleagues in STEM education research. The outcomes of this meeting will be a paper documenting the proceedings, a wiki to facilitate networking, and a draft of a full RCN-UBE proposal to create a new society, Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research, SABER.Intellectual Merit: The efforts in the field of biology education research are not as focused as similar research efforts in other science disciplines. We lack a common database (such as PubMed) where our research findings and those of the learning sciences are reported, which leads to duplication of effort and lack of a common foundational knowledge. This workshop will address these and other infrastructural issues as well as set an agenda for future biology education research.Broader Impact: Coordination of research efforts will foster faster advances in how college student learn biology, which will benefit current and future undergraduates, particularly underrepresented minorities, who leave the basic and life sciences at a much greater rate than other college disciplines. By advancing our understanding of how best to help students learn biology, we may be able to stem this loss of talent in biology.This project is supported jointly by the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education.