Building Excellence in Undergraduate STEM Education

该项目正在支持美国科学促进会(AAAS)在2013年和2015年为STEM本科生教育转型(TUES)计划(及其前身课程、课程和实验室教学(CCLI)计划)组织和举办首席研究员(PI)会议。会议的目的是为TUES/CCLI PIs提供机会，分享为培养多样化的本科生群体进入科学大军并作为公民参与技术社会做准备的方法和战略。这些会议的总体成果是让TUES PI确定他们和其他人可以用来加强设计、开发和实施有前途的项目方法的合作者、战略和行动，以转变本科STEM教育。这些会议包括全体讲座、海报会议、互动研讨会，讨论那些领导TUES项目的人感兴趣的话题，以及与其他致力于改善本科STEM教育的教职员工和教育领导人建立网络联系的机会。更广泛的意义每个会议包括500多名TUES/CCLI PI和50名其他参与者，包括出版商和专业协会、基金会和企业的工作人员。所有被选中参加会议的TUES/CCLI PI必须提交小组会议或海报。预计其他非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的多样性，选择时要考虑学科、项目类型、机构类型、种族/族裔、性别、残疾和地理位置。现场项目评估记录了与会者打算在每次会议结束后立即采取的行动。一项在线跟踪调查记录了与会者在每次会议后三个月内采取的行动。将开发的产品包括印刷摘要的会议方案和带有TUES示范项目案例研究的光面会后出版物。

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.