GRC on Undergraduate Biology Education Research: Improving Diversity, Equity, and Learning

戈登本科生物教育研究会议（GRC UBER）将为生物教育界提供为期五天的会议，将学者聚集在一起，促进我们对如何更好地为高等教育中的不同学生群体服务的理解。会议将通过传播前沿研究和经过验证的模式，重点讨论发展项目能力、公平性和包容性的当代方法。会议希望汇集来自很少互动但在重叠领域工作的社区的学者，以综合我们对如何更系统地改变本科生物学课程的理解。会议旨在培养合作和未来研究的新方向。会议将讨论的其他问题包括国家趋势、项目级转换的最佳实践、大规模多校区研究项目、将研究经验融入课程、与研究生教育的联系，以及美国国家科学基金会资助的本科生物学教育研究协调网络（RCN）的亮点。协调和理解不同的尝试，以提高所有学生的本科生物学教育的公平性和有效性，继续挑战许多地方，区域和国家的努力。本次会议将促进下一代的问题和议题，以加速研究和实践，告知国家优先事项，促进多样化生物人才的发展和项目的包容性。它将吸引科学教育研究人员、教育工作者、研究生、博士后、校园领导、科学家、教育和科学社会领袖、政策领袖、出版商和国家技术产业的兴趣。这次重要的全国性聚会将以2015年GRC UBER的成功举办为基础，其主要目标是：1)让不同的与会者接触到最先进的UBER方法、概念和模型；2)引发关于下一代研究问题的深入讨论，这些问题将加速UBER的发展；3)继续建立一个社区，在生物教育的公平性、可及性、多样性和有效性等问题上拥有共同的语言、承诺和概念理解。最终的结果将是一个强有力的综合研究成果，识别研究中的差距，以及发展新的研究合作和方向，这将导致实施更有效的策略，从而改善本科生物学的学习和教学。

The Gordon Research Conference on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (GRC UBER) will provide the biology education community a five day conference to bring scholars together to advance our understanding of how to better serve the diverse student population in higher education. The conference will focus on contemporary approaches to developing capacity, equity and inclusiveness of programs by disseminating cutting edge research and proven models. The conference expects to bring together scholars from communities that rarely interact but who work in overlapping arenas to synthesize our understanding of what it takes to more systemically change undergraduate biology programs. The meeting aspires to cultivate collaborations and new directions for future research. Other issues to be addressed in conference sessions include national trends, best practices for program-level transformation, large-scale multi-campus research projects, integrating research experiences into the curriculum, connections to graduate education, and highlights from NSF-funded Research Coordination Networks (RCN) in Undergraduate Biology Education.Coordination and understanding of the disparate attempts to improve equity and efficacy of undergraduate biology education for all students continues to challenge many local, regional and national efforts. This conference will foster the next generation of questions and issues to accelerate research and practice, inform national priorities, and promote the development of diverse biological talent and inclusivity in programs. It will be of interest to science education researchers, educators, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, campus leaders, scientists, education and scientific society leaders, policy leaders, publishers, and the nation's technology industry. The major goals for this important national gathering will build on the goals of the highly successful 2015 GRC UBER and are to: 1) expose a diversity of attendees to state-of-the-art approaches to UBER methods, concepts and models; 2) engender deep discussions about the next generation of research questions that will accelerate UBER; and, 3) continue to build a community that shares a common language, commitment to, and conceptual understanding of issues related equity, access, diversity and efficacy in biology education. The end result will be a robust synthesis of research findings, identification of gaps in the research, as well as the development of new research collaborations and directions that will lead to implementation of more effective strategies that result in improved undergraduate biology learning and instruction.