Collaborative Research: Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI)

合作研究：社区学院本科生研究计划 (CCURI)

• 批准号: 1118679
• 负责人: James Hewlett
• 金额: $ 332.44万
• 依托单位: Finger Lakes Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1118679&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Community; College; Undergraduate

The Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI - www.ccuri.org) is a national consortium of community colleges, four-year schools, government agencies, and private organizations dedicated to the development, implementation, and assessment of a sustainable model for integrating an undergraduate research (UR) experience into community college biology curriculum. In partnership with the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), CCURI has developed a fully-integrated model for integrating undergraduate research at a community college. This project aims to: 1) Expand a modified version of the CCURI model to 16 additional community colleges; 2) Implement a comprehensive evaluation of the CCURI model on student learning, competency, and retention in STEM; 3) Measure the impact of the CCURI model on developing institutional capacity at the 16 additional community colleges that are committed to developing an undergraduate research program; and 4) Disseminate the modified CCURI model of integration and the customized versions of the model as they exist at the institutional partners within CCURI. This proposal is responsive to the recommendations for biology education reform called for in both Vision and Change: A Call To Action (NSF/AAAS) and the BIO 2010 report (NRC). CCURI is working toward a fully validated strategy that community colleges can look to in understanding how to initiate reform. The CCURI model is novel in that it was developed from a Root Cause Analysis of the unique barriers that community colleges face in sustaining UR programs. The project includes economic impact metrics as a tool for evaluating a Community College Faculty Model and leverages a partnership with Tennessee Tech & their CAT instrument to capture gains in critical thinking skills - an outcome with implications beyond biology. This project is creating and sustaining a national network of Community Colleges committed to bringing the UR experience into biology curriculum. The model is helping community colleges overcome the unique barriers that have prevented them from employing the power of the UR pedagogy in the education of approximately 45% of all U.S. undergraduates including underrepresented groups and students who are the first generation of their family to attend college. The results from the extensive evaluation plan is being widely disseminated and used to refine the model for integrating the UR experience at a community college.

社区大学本科生研究计划(CCURI-www.ccuri.org)是一个由社区大学、四年制学校、政府机构和私人组织组成的全国性联盟，致力于开发、实施和评估将本科生研究(UR)经验整合到社区大学生物课程中的可持续模式。CCURI与本科生研究委员会(CUR)合作，开发了一种完全整合的模式，用于整合社区学院的本科生研究。该项目的目标是：1)将CCURI模式的修订版扩展到另外16所社区学院；2)对CCURI模式在STEM学生的学习、能力和保持方面进行全面评估；3)衡量CCURI模式对致力于发展本科研究计划的另外16所社区学院机构能力发展的影响；以及4)传播CCURI整合的修订版模式和该模式的定制版本，因为它们存在于CCURI内的机构合作伙伴中。该提案响应了《愿景与变革：行动呼吁》(NSF/AAAS)和BIO 2010年报告(NRC)中对生物教育改革的建议。CCURI正在努力制定一项经过充分验证的战略，社区大学可以参考这一战略来了解如何启动改革。CCURI模型是新颖的，因为它是从社区大学在支持UR项目时面临的独特障碍的根本原因分析中发展出来的。该项目包括将经济影响指标作为评估社区大学教师模式的工具，并利用与田纳西理工大学及其CAT工具的合作伙伴关系来获取批判性思维技能方面的成果--这一结果具有超越生物学的影响。该项目正在创建和维持一个致力于将UR经验引入生物课程的全国社区学院网络。该模式正在帮助社区大学克服独特的障碍，这些障碍阻碍了他们在教育大约45%的美国本科生时使用UR教学法的力量，其中包括代表不足的群体和他们家庭中第一代上大学的学生。广泛评估计划的结果正在广泛传播，并用于完善整合社区大学UR经验的模式。