Community College Biology Education Research Meeting

社区学院生物教育研究会议

• 批准号: 1534195
• 负责人: Erin Dolan
• 金额: $ 4.93万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1534195&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Community; College; Biology; Education; Research

The University of Texas at Austin and De Anza Community College will be addressing the dearth of discipline-based education research, particularly Biology Education Research (BER), at the nation's community colleges. The project team will convene a meeting of national leaders in BER, community college biology teaching, action research, and community-based participatory research. The meeting will characterize the state of community college BER, including what issues or topics have been studied and where gaps exist. Further, it will generate a plan to identify constraints and affordances community college faculty encounter when conducting and publishing Biology Education (Bio-Ed) studies and a plan to identify support strategies that will enhance the number of faculty conducting and publishing community college Bio-Ed studies. Finally, the meeting will nucleate a network of individuals interested in conducting or participating in community college Bio-Ed studies.Participants will represent diverse theoretical, practical, and institutional perspectives important to fostering BER in community colleges and will include journal editors, BER scholars, and community college faculty. The meeting will also include experts in the variety of research traditions that ensure active involvement of the community being studied and equitable consideration of community interests. The project will have three outcomes: 1) a meeting report that will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and a complementary set of editorials and letters to editors of other STEM- and Bio-Ed journals to draw attention to the report; 2) a set of plans for a collaborative research project to identify factors that enable or limit community college faculty in conducting and publishing BER; and 3) a network of individuals dedicated to fostering BER in community colleges and accomplishing emergent meeting goals. The meeting will also serve as a foundation for generating evidence-based strategies to address the dearth of BER at the community college level.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和德安扎社区学院将着手解决美国社区学院学科教育研究，特别是生物教育研究（BER）的缺乏问题。项目组将召集全国BER、社区大学生物教学、行动研究和社区参与性研究领域的领导人召开会议。会议将描述社区大学BER的现状，包括研究了哪些问题或主题，以及存在哪些差距。此外，它将制定一项计划，以确定社区学院教师在进行和出版生物教育（Bio-Ed）研究时遇到的限制和支持，并制定一项计划，以确定支持策略，以增加进行和出版社区学院生物教育研究的教师数量。最后，会议将形成一个有兴趣进行或参与社区大学生物教育研究的个人网络。参与者将代表不同的理论、实践和制度观点，这些观点对促进社区学院BER的发展至关重要，参与者将包括期刊编辑、BER学者和社区学院教师。会议还将包括各种研究传统的专家，以确保被研究的社区的积极参与和对社区利益的公平考虑。该项目将产生三个成果：1)提交给同行评审期刊的会议报告，并向其他STEM和Bio-Ed期刊的编辑提供一套补充社论和信函，以引起对该报告的关注；2)为合作研究项目制定一套计划，以确定促使或限制社区学院教师开展和发表BER的因素；3)一个致力于促进社区大学BER和实现紧急会议目标的个人网络。这次会议还将为制定以证据为基础的战略奠定基础，以解决社区大学一级BER不足的问题。