Collaborative Research: Navigating from Vision to Change with Bio-MAPS

合作研究：利用 Bio-MAPS 从愿景转向变革

• 批准号: 1322364
• 负责人: Jennifer Knight
• 金额: $ 15.32万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2013-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322364&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Navigating; Vision; Change

This project takes major steps towards concretely defining core concepts and competencies outlined in the NSF-AAAS report, Vision and Change, and provides tools to allow programmatic assessment in undergraduate biology education. The intellectual merit of this project derives from the development, validation, and field-testing of tools called Bio-MAPS (Biology-Measuring Achievement and Progression in Science). Specifically, four Bio-MAPS assessments are being produced: molecular and cellular biology, physiology and neuroscience, ecology and evolution, and an overall comprehensive measure. The research team is working with biology faculty at diverse institutions that span the breadth of higher education to develop a framework that outlines expectations for what students should know and be able to do at different collegiate levels. Data from Bio-MAPS are expected to provide dramatic broader impacts and catalyze curricular reform by: 1) diagnosing areas in which students struggle despite instruction, 2) allowing two-year community colleges to evaluate how well they are preparing students for transfer to four-year institutions, 3) inspiring and directing faculty and institutional conversations about enacting change at the programmatic level, 4) helping administrators focus limited resources on aspects of the curricula needing revision, and 5) challenging faculty to re-design courses to scaffold student learning. Biology departments can also use Bio-MAPS assessments to demonstrate evidence of student learning for accreditation processes. Many agencies now require evidence of student learning and data on how well programs meet the needs of diverse student populations. This focus on tangible learning outcomes requires that institutions have a means of quantitatively measuring student progression through a curriculum. Bio-MAPS can provide a means of measuring student progress through a curriculum. Other science disciplines may be interested in developing similar assessments for their students. This project is being funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to support Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.

该项目朝着具体定义 NSF-AAAS 报告《愿景与变革》中概述的核心概念和能力迈出了重要一步，并提供了在本科生物教育中进行程序化评估的工具。该项目的智力价值源自 Bio-MAPS（生物学测量科学成就和进步）工具的开发、验证和现场测试。具体来说，正在制定四项 Bio-MAPS 评估：分子和细胞生物学、生理学和神经科学、生态学和进化以及总体综合测量。该研究团队正在与跨越高等教育领域的不同机构的生物学教师合作，开发一个框架，概述对学生在不同大学级别应该知道和能够做的事情的期望。 Bio-MAPS 的数据预计将通过以下方式提供更广泛的影响并促进课程改革：1）诊断学生在教学中遇到困难的领域，2）允许两年制社区学院评估他们为学生转学到四年制院校的准备情况，3）启发和指导教师和机构关于在计划层面实施变革的对话，4）帮助管理人员将有限的资源集中在需要修订的课程方面，以及 5）要求教师重新设计课程以支持学生的学习。生物系还可以使用 Bio-MAPS 评估来展示学生学习认证过程的证据。许多机构现在需要学生学习的证据以及有关项目如何满足不同学生群体需求的数据。这种对有形学习成果的关注要求机构拥有一种通过课程定量衡量学生进步的方法。 Bio-MAPS 可以提供一种衡量学生课程进度的方法。其他科学学科可能有兴趣为学生制定类似的评估。该项目由生物科学理事会和教育和人力资源理事会本科教育司联合资助，作为支持本科生物教育愿景和变革的努力的一部分。