Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities

在这个项目中，国家科学与公民参与中心（NCSCE）通过其科学教育促进新公民参与和责任（SENCER）计划，继续促进和维持大规模的教学和课程改革。 它是建立在先前的成果和成就，使教育工作者能够帮助美国大学的学生在科学，数学，工程和技术（STEM）学科中进行重点和关联的学习，以解决我们民主面临的重要问题。 该项目的一个关键目标是扩大SENCER的实践社区，以实现本科STEM教学和学习的变革性“临界点”。 SENCER模型应用了一种从学习科学到科学学习的“由外而内”的方法，在引人注目的公民挑战中构建STEM学习。这一努力的智力价值在于授权教育工作者帮助美国大学的学生在STEM学科中进行重点学习，以解决我们民主面临的重大问题。该项目的更广泛影响包括通过提高美国人民的科学和技术素养来加强我们的民主，支持公民参与，并维持一个有助于实现这些重要目标的计划。 五个目标定义了这个为期四年的项目的范围： 1.扩大参与SENCER计划，通过让来自美国20%以上的学院和大学的教师团队参与新课程和课程设计，主动学习方法和公民义务的国家和地区计划，达到变革性规模。增加后续活动的力度和范围，通过组织密集的执行网络研讨会、链接讨论小组和部署领导研究员“共同导师”来加强执行成果，从而使改革制度化。传播奖学金，材料和其他资源，以加强与更广泛的教育界的联系，通过安装一个“模型材料”的倡议，以填充SENCER数字图书馆收藏易于适应和使用的课程材料，实验室，评估，公民参与项目和相关资源的集合。通过与大学理事会合作，扩大评估范围，以衡量和促进持久的理解，以实现有针对性的评估（与教授SENCER课程的学科相关），衡量统一科学概念、科学实践以及涉及科学、技术和社会的问题的学习。5.参与正式规划，通过设计和实施多阶段的可持续发展计划，确保可持续性，领导力继承和增长。该计划包括项目开发、财务、治理、领导层继任以及获得校内和校外支持的战略和机制，以在NSF资助停止后发展一个强大的改革者社区。

In this project the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) is continuing to catalyze and sustain pedagogical and curricular transformation on a large scale through its Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Program. It is building on prior results and accomplishments in empowering educators to help students in American colleges employ focused and connected learning in the science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) disciplines to engage with important issues facing our democracy. A key goal of this project is to expand SENCER's community of practice to achieve a transformative "tipping point" in undergraduate STEM instruction and learning. SENCER models apply an "outside - in" approach from the science of learning to the learning of science, framing STEM learning within compelling civic challenges. The intellectual merit of this effort consists in empowering educators to help students in American colleges employ focused learning in the STEM disciplines to engage with great issues facing our democracy. The broader impacts of this project include strengthening our democracy by enhancing the scientific and technological literacy of the American people supporting civic engagement, and sustaining a program that helps achieve these important goals. Five goals define the reach of this 4-year project: 1. Expand participation in the SENCER Program to reach transformative scale by involving faculty teams from more than 20% of US colleges and universities in national and regional programs in new course and program design, active learning pedagogies, and civic engagement.2. Increase the intensity and scope of follow-up activities to institutionalize reforms by organizing intensive implementation webinars, linked-in discussion groups, and deploying leadership fellow "co-mentors" to strengthen implementation outcomes.3. Disseminate scholarship, materials, and other resources to strengthen connections with the wider education community by mounting a "models to materials" initiative to populate the SENCER digital library collection with easy-to-adapt and use collections of course materials, labs, assessments, civic engagement projects, and related resources.4. Broaden assessment to measure and promote enduring understandings by collaborating with the College Board to enable targeted assessment (connected to the disciplines in which SENCER courses are taught) that measures learning of unifying scientific concepts, science practices, and issues involving science, technology and society. 5. Engage in formal planning to assure sustainability, leadership succession, and growth by designing and implementing a multi-phased sustainability plan. The plan includes strategies and mechanisms for program development, finance, governance, leadership succession, and acquisition of intramural and extramural support to grow a robust community of reformers well after NSF funding has ceased.