REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research in Undergraduate STEM Education

REU 网站：本科 STEM 教育的跨学科研究

• 批准号: 1560142
• 负责人: Jennifer Momsen
• 金额: $ 47.58万
• 依托单位: North Dakota State University Fargo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Research; Undergraduate

North Dakota State University will conduct a summer research program to engage 30 undergraduate students in collaborative, interdisciplinary research in STEM Education. This project will foster collaboration through faculty and peer mentoring and cohort building activities. REU participants will learn qualitative and quantitative research methods, scientific communication skills, and become familiar with career paths in STEM Education. The ultimate goal of this project is to promote the matriculation of talented students to graduate programs in what is referred to as discipline-based education research (DBER). This project builds on a prior NSF award that has produced publishable results in the area of DBER. Through this project REU students will be able to select from a wide variety of undergraduate research projects that pose important questions about the nature of assessment, reasoning, and the impact of learning assistants, crossing many STEM disciplines. The students will prepare for their research experience by reading and discussing assigned papers and participating in IRB training (both done online) before they arrive at the REU site. The benefit of this prior, virtual mentoring will be twofold; the students will receive essential training in education research, an area that may not be familiar to them and they will begin to build relationships with their research mentors. During the project the students will participate in a well-structured professional development seminar through which they will address ethical practices, careers in STEM, and pathways to graduate school. Formative evaluation will provide feedback necessary to refine the project each year through information gathered from entrance and exit surveys, the Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences, the Experimental Design Ability Test, and interviews with students. Summative evaluation activities will include REU student exit interviews, an exit survey, and tracking of students' career trajectories through follow-up surveys.

北达科他州立大学将开展一个暑期研究项目，让 30 名本科生参与 STEM 教育领域的协作、跨学科研究。 该项目将通过教师和同行指导以及队列建设活动促进合作。 REU 参与者将学习定性和定量研究方法、科学沟通技巧，并熟悉 STEM 教育的职业道路。该项目的最终目标是促进有才华的学生进入所谓的基于学科的教育研究（DBER）的研究生课程。 该项目建立在之前 NSF 奖项的基础上，该奖项已在 DBER 领域产生了可发表的成果。 通过这个项目，REU 的学生将能够从各种各样的本科研究项目中进行选择，这些项目提出了有关评估的性质、推理和学习助手的影响的重要问题，涉及许多 STEM 学科。 在到达 REU 站点之前，学生将通过阅读和讨论指定论文以及参加 IRB 培训（均在线完成）来为他们的研究经历做好准备。 这种先前的虚拟指导的好处将是双重的；学生将接受教育研究方面的基本培训，这是他们可能不熟悉的领域，他们将开始与研究导师建立关系。在项目期间，学生将参加一个结构良好的专业发展研讨会，通过研讨会他们将讨论道德实践、STEM 职业以及研究生院的途径。 形成性评估将通过从入学和毕业调查、本科生研究经验调查、实验设计能力测试和学生访谈中收集的信息，提供每年完善项目所需的反馈。 总结性评估活动将包括 REU 学生离职面谈、离职调查以及通过跟踪调查跟踪学生的职业轨迹。