Building Excellence in Undergraduate STEM Education

技术描述该项目支持美国科学促进会（AAAS）在2013年和2015年组织和举办STEM本科教育转型（TUES）项目（及其前身课程、课程和实验室教学（CCLI）项目）的首席研究员（PI）会议。会议的目的是为TUES/CCLI pi提供分享方法和策略的机会，以培养多样化的本科生群体进入科学队伍并作为公民参与技术社会。这些会议的总体结果是，TUES pi确定合作者、战略和行动，他们和其他人可以利用这些合作伙伴、战略和行动来加强有前途的项目方法的设计、开发和实施，以改变本科STEM教育。会议包括全体会议、海报会议、互动研讨会，讨论TUES主要项目感兴趣的主题，以及与其他致力于改善本科STEM教育的教师和教育领导者建立联系的机会。更广泛的意义每次会议包括500多名TUES/CCLI pi和50名其他参与者，包括专业协会，基金会和企业的出版商和工作人员。所有被选中参加会议的TUES/CCLI pi必须展示一个小组会议或海报。其他非nsf参与者将传播有关战略和概念的信息。为了确保主题和参与者之间的多样性，选择将考虑学科，项目类型，机构类型，种族/民族，性别，残疾和地理位置。现场项目评估是捕捉参与者在每次会议后打算立即采取的行动。一项在线跟踪调查记录了与会者在每次会议结束后三个月内采取的行动。将要开发的产品包括带有印刷摘要的会议计划，以及带有典型的TUES项目案例研究的光鲜亮丽的会后出版物。

Technical DescriptionThe project is supporting The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to organize and run Principal Investigator (PI) meetings in 2013 and in 2015 for the Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) program (and its predecessor, the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Instruction (CCLI) program). The objective of the conferences is to provide opportunities for TUES/CCLI PIs to share methods and strategies for preparing a diverse undergraduate student population to enter the scientific workforce and to participate as citizens in a technological society. The overall outcome of these conferences is for TUES PIs to identify collaborators, strategies, and actions that they and others can use to strengthen the design, development, and implementation of promising project approaches to transform undergraduate STEM education. The conferences include plenary lectures, poster sessions, interactive workshop discussions on topics of interest to those leading TUES projects, and opportunities to network with other faculty and educational leaders engaged in improving undergraduate STEM education. Broader SignificanceEach conference includes more than 500 TUES/CCLI PIs and 50 other participants, including publishers and staff of professional societies, foundations, and business. All TUES/CCLI PIs selected to participate in the conferences must present a small group session or a poster. Other non-NSF participants are expected to disseminate information about strategies and concepts. To ensure diversity among the topics and participants, selection is taking into account discipline, type of project, type of institution, race/ethnicity, gender, disability, and geographic location. The on-site project evaluation is capturing actions that participants intend to take immediately after each conference. An online follow-up survey is capturing actions that participants are taking no later than three months after each conference. Products to be developed include conference programs with printed abstracts and glossy post-conference publications with case studies of exemplary TUES projects.