REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research in Undergraduate STEM Education

REU 网站：本科 STEM 教育的跨学科研究

• 批准号: 1156974
• 负责人: Warren Christensen
• 金额: $ 32.85万
• 依托单位: North Dakota State University Fargo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Research; Undergraduate

This project is engaging 10 undergraduate students per year in summer research experiences at North Dakota State University in the area of STEM education. The students are conducting research under the guidance of a faculty mentor while learning from each other. The students are learning qualitative and quantitative research methods, scientific communication skills, and becoming familiar with career paths in STEM Education Research. These students are being uniquely prepared for PhD-level training in STEM education research at this institution and others with programs in this rapidly growing area. The institution is building on its strengths in discipline-based education research in biochemistry education, biology education, chemistry education, physics education and math education. The research projects that students are engaging in are integrating across STEM disciplines, and they include: studying how undergraduate students learn quantitative reasoning skills, develop systems thinking, and learn visualization skills, as well as how to close achievement gaps between various groups in science and mathematics. This project is advancing knowledge and understanding of effective teaching and learning in STEM while providing an authentic research experience to undergraduates. Students from groups underrepresented in STEM are being targeted for recruitment in this program, including undergraduates at Sitting Bull College, a Tribal College.

该项目每年邀请10名本科生在北达科他州立大学进行STEM教育领域的暑期研究。学生们在教师导师的指导下进行研究，同时相互学习。学生们正在学习定性和定量的研究方法，科学的沟通技巧，并熟悉STEM教育研究的职业道路。这些学生正在为该机构和其他在这一快速发展领域开设项目的机构的STEM教育研究博士级别培训做独特的准备。学院在生物化学教育、生物教育、化学教育、物理教育和数学教育等学科教育研究方面具有优势。学生参与的研究项目是跨STEM学科的整合，包括：研究本科生如何学习定量推理技能、发展系统思维、学习可视化技能，以及如何缩小不同群体在科学和数学方面的成就差距。该项目在为本科生提供真实的研究体验的同时，提高了对STEM有效教学的认识和理解。来自STEM中未被充分代表的群体的学生成为该项目的招募目标，包括部落学院Sitting Bull College的本科生。