Concept, Competency, and Community-Driven Curriculum Reform in Undergraduate Biology Education (C3UBE)

本科生物教育中的概念、能力和社区驱动的课程改革（C3UBE）

• 批准号: 1245215
• 负责人: Elisabeth Schussler
• 金额: $ 18.2万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245215&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Concept; Competency; Community; Driven; Curriculum

Intellectual merit: This project integrates recommendations by the Vision and Change initiative to revise and revitalize the first year biology sequence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). A community-based approach is being used to monitor and document the integration of Vision and Change concepts, competencies, and research by UTK biologists into three courses. Faculty and graduate students are developing new instructional strategies and assessing the impacts on student learning. In part, the effort involves 1) developing and implementing a new curriculum, 2) providing professional development for the UTK biology community, 3) assessing and evaluating student learning in light of the curricular changes, and 4) disseminating the student learning and curriculum change results. The project is providing one model of how an outcomes-based and community-based reform at a large state university can integrate Vision and Change into introductory biology courses. The creation and use of open-ended assessments based on Vision and Change concepts is also building capacity in assessment of undergraduate biology learning.Broader impacts: By engaging dozens of UTK faculty, graduate students, and staff in best practices for teaching and learning, the project is providing thousands of undergraduates the tools to become more biologically literate. It prepares students for open-ended questioning, and encourages them to think like biologists. Moreover, the project functions as a model of reform whose deliverables are freely available for use by other institutions. UTK community members are also visiting selected institutions to encourage them to enact similar curricular reforms within their introductory biology courses.

智力优点：该项目整合了愿景与变革倡议的建议，以修订和振兴田纳西大学诺克斯维尔（UTK）的第一年生物学序列。 一个以社区为基础的方法被用来监测和记录的愿景和变化的概念，能力和研究UTK生物学家到三门课程的整合。 教师和研究生正在开发新的教学策略，并评估对学生学习的影响。 部分工作涉及1）开发和实施新课程，2）为UTK生物社区提供专业发展，3）根据课程变化评估和评价学生学习，以及4）传播学生学习和课程变化结果。 该项目提供了一个模式，说明如何在一所大型州立大学进行基于结果和基于社区的改革，将“愿景与变革”纳入生物学入门课程。 基于愿景和变革概念的开放式评估的创建和使用也在培养本科生生物学学习评估的能力。更广泛的影响：通过让数十名UTK教师、研究生和工作人员参与教学和学习的最佳实践，该项目为数千名本科生提供了提高生物学素养的工具。 它为学生准备开放式的提问，并鼓励他们像生物学家一样思考。 此外，该项目还发挥了改革模式的作用，其成果可供其他机构免费使用。 UTK社区成员还访问了选定的机构，鼓励他们在生物学入门课程中实施类似的课程改革。