Enhancing Student Success in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics by Transforming the Faculty Culture

通过转变教师文化提高学生在生物、化学和物理方面的成功

• 批准号: 1431350
• 负责人: Howard Jackson
• 金额: $ 64.39万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Student; Success; Biology; Chemistry

This project is initiating transformative change in the faculty culture and behavior regarding teaching and learning within and across the departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. The success of this project is being judged and guided by the resulting enhanced student learning and improved success in completing eight gatekeeper courses in these three departments. The key processes are coordinated activities that will encourage and support a broad collection of faculty instructors in these disciplines to utilize the full breadth of research-based instructional strategies in their teaching of these lower division courses. Individual participating faculty instructors are choosing and adapting their own research-based strategies. In this way they are participating directly in this key aspect of faculty culture. Two university resources are particularly important in supporting this change. Technical guidance and assistance are being provided by departmental Teaching and Learning Liaisons (TLLs). The TLLs are faculty members within each department who have received special training and are prepared to encourage and support the department and individual faculty members as they increasingly incorporate research-based instructional strategies into a core of 8 gatekeeper courses. Secondly, a unique faculty development component is being tailored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CET&L) to provide support both for the Teaching and Learning Liaisons (TLLs) and for individual faculty. This project is proceeding with the full support of the Provost (who is a PI), the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the three department heads. Change strategies are being detailed that will respond differently and appropriately for the local environments found within specific departments. Collectively these efforts will provide increasingly supportive environments or, viewed more broadly, an increasingly supportive ecosystem that will be the foundation for sustainable increased and increasingly effective use of research based instructional strategies. A series of assessments will guide and improve the impact of this effort, and provide useful research knowledge about the effectiveness of this approach to change.

该项目正在启动生物、化学和物理院系内部和跨院系的教学文化和行为的变革。这一项目的成功与否取决于学生在这三个系的学习和完成8门看门人课程的成功程度。关键的过程是协调的活动，这些活动将鼓励和支持这些学科的教师教师的广泛集合，在这些较低级别课程的教学中充分利用基于研究的教学策略。个别参与的教师教师选择和调整他们自己的基于研究的策略。通过这种方式，他们直接参与了教师文化的这一关键方面。两所大学的资源在支持这一变化方面尤为重要。各系教与学联络员提供技术指导和协助。tll是每个系的教师，他们接受过特殊培训，并准备鼓励和支持系和个别教师，因为他们越来越多地将基于研究的教学策略纳入8门核心守门人课程。其次，教学与学习促进中心（CET&amp；L）正在制定一个独特的教师发展组成部分，为教学与学习联络员（tll）和个别教师提供支持。这个项目是在教务长（PI）、文理学院院长和三个系主任的全力支持下进行的。正在制定详细的变革战略，以对具体部门的当地环境作出不同和适当的反应。总的来说，这些努力将提供越来越多的支持性环境，或者从更广泛的角度来看，一个越来越多的支持性生态系统，这将是可持续地增加和越来越有效地使用基于研究的教学策略的基础。一系列的评估将指导和改进这一努力的影响，并提供关于这种改变方法的有效性的有用的研究知识。