Sustainable Interdisciplinary Research to Inspire Undergraduate Success

可持续的跨学科研究激发本科生的成功

• 批准号: 1432299
• 负责人: Kelly McDonald
• 金额: $ 57.38万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises, Incorporated
• 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 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1432299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainable; Interdisciplinary; Research; Inspire; Undergraduate

There have been recent urgent calls to train more students for the 21st Century scientific workforce and to increase the diversity of students entering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers. Many studies illustrate the positive influence of research experiences on the performance, retention, attitudes and career decisions of undergraduate science majors In this project Sacramento State, a large comprehensive urban 4-year university with a diverse student body, aims to increase undergraduate student success by building a STEM Education Community that engages Biological Sciences faculty and students, campus science educators and community partners in interdisciplinary research on a problem of particular interest to them and of general importance to the entire nation; human impact on the ecology of rivers, in this case the American River flowing at the college's doorstep.The project's teaching approach is built around the tenants of Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action. Its emphasis is on community building within the university to ensure that all biology students experience the intellectual stimulation of a research project and that faculty learning communities be established to ensure ongoing institutional commitment to a quality undergraduate education for all students. The primary mechanism employed is development and implementation of research-based classroom experiences in which students at all levels of training explore a single large-scale problem. The project involves the biology department, in cooperation with educational researchers, in science education research, extensive curriculum development, faculty development and interdisciplinary program development. Twelve biology courses will be transformed by this project. Fourteen tenured faculty will participate in a Faculty Learning Community in order to implement evidence-based teaching practices, effective use of technology in the classroom and to collaborate across their sub-disciplines in multiple courses to solve big scientific problems. Integrating a range of inputs, the team will iteratively improve the modules using a design-based research and development strategy. Among the broader impacts of this course is that it is sustainable and scalable and easily adapted by other institutions because it utilizes existing course budgets and places no undue pressure on individual faculty laboratory finances. This project is funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education in support of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/

最近有紧急呼吁培养更多的学生为21世纪的科学劳动力，并增加学生进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）职业的多样性。许多研究说明了研究经验对本科科学专业的表现，保留，态度和职业决策的积极影响。在这个项目中，萨克拉门托州立大学是一所大型综合性城市4年制大学，拥有多样化的学生群体，旨在通过建立一个STEM教育社区来提高本科生的成功率，该社区吸引生物科学教师和学生，校园科学教育工作者和社区合作伙伴在跨学科研究的问题，特别感兴趣的，他们和一般重要性，以整个国家;人类对河流生态的影响，在这种情况下，美国河在学院门口流动。该项目的教学方法是围绕本科生物学教育的愿景和变化的租户建立的：一个行动的呼吁。它的重点是在大学内的社区建设，以确保所有生物学学生体验到研究项目的智力刺激，并建立教师学习社区，以确保持续的机构承诺为所有学生提供优质的本科教育。采用的主要机制是开发和实施以研究为基础的课堂体验，让各级培训的学生探索一个单一的大规模问题。该项目涉及生物系，与教育研究人员合作，在科学教育研究，广泛的课程开发，教师发展和跨学科计划的发展。本项目将改造12门生物课程。 14名终身教职员工将参加教师学习社区，以实施循证教学实践，在课堂上有效利用技术，并在多门课程中跨学科合作，以解决重大科学问题。通过整合一系列的投入，该团队将使用基于设计的研究和开发策略迭代地改进模块。这门课程的更广泛的影响之一是，它是可持续的，可扩展的，很容易适应其他机构，因为它利用现有的课程预算，并没有对个别教师实验室的财务不适当的压力。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，以支持应对本科教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战：行动呼吁http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/