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Consortium for the Transformation of Undergraduate STEM Education at the University of Washington

华盛顿大学本科 STEM 教育转型联盟

基本信息

批准号：
1725149
负责人：
Mary Pat Wenderoth
金额：
$ 91.73万
依托单位：
University of Washington
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-11-15 至 2022-10-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725149&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Consortium Transformation Undergraduate STEM Education

项目摘要

The project will develop an internal Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education (CAUSE) to measure changes in faculty practice, culture, and student learning at the University of Washington. It involves a detailed plan to implement a theory-based approach to transform the culture of undergraduate teaching. The goal is to achieve a critical mass of faculty (25-50%) across seven departments that have the largest undergraduate enrollments. Six of these departments are within STEM. The project is being conducted in a university environment that is increasingly conducive to the mission of this project. There are four elements in place that are critical or valuable for transforming the culture of undergraduate teaching: 1) committed senior leadership, 2) major investments in new active-learning classroom spaces, 3) active discipline-based education research groups (four) along with an interdisciplinary consortium active in education research, and 4) a pilot faculty development network that has already engaged 36 faculty representing 20 different units. This project will focus on expanding the faculty development network with extensive training activities and create change groups in each of the seven core departments that are designed to grow each year. These departments are: Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Public Health. The merit of this project lies in several areas. First, it adds another institution to the small but growing set of others supported by NSF in the last two years that are focused on creating institutional transformation through departmental change groups supported by education experts. Second, the basic project goal is straightforward, namely, adding three new faculty to the core reform group in each department during each year of this 3-year project. Third, the core group and the departmental leaders have the faculty status of "Lecturer" because these faculty are where the teaching expertise for introductory courses is centered. However, during the expansion period of this project, faculty of other types will be recruited and added to the core departmental groups. This project is an applied research project to investigate whether the theory of change underlying this transformation effort works as expected.

该项目将建立一个促进本科生STEM教育的内部联盟(CAUSE)，以衡量华盛顿大学教师实践、文化和学生学习的变化。它涉及一项详细的计划，以实施以理论为基础的方法来转变本科教学文化。其目标是在本科招生人数最多的七个系中实现足够多的教员(25%-50%)。这些部门中有六个在STEM范围内。该项目是在一个越来越有利于该项目使命的大学环境中进行的。转变本科教学文化有四个关键或有价值的要素：1)坚定的高级领导层，2)对新的主动学习教室空间的重大投资，3)积极的以学科为基础的教育研究小组(4)以及一个活跃于教育研究的跨学科联盟，以及4)一个试点的教师发展网络，该网络已经雇用了代表20个不同单位的36名教师。该项目将专注于通过广泛的培训活动来扩大教师发展网络，并在七个核心部门中的每个部门创建变革小组，这些部门的设计每年都会增长。这些系是：化学、生物、物理、心理学、数学、计算机科学和公共卫生。这个项目的优点在于几个方面。首先，在过去两年得到NSF支持的少数机构中，它又增加了一家机构，这些机构专注于通过教育专家支持的部门变革小组来创造机构转型。第二，项目的基本目标很明确，即在这个为期3年的项目中，每个系的核心改革小组每年增加3名新教师。第三，核心小组和部门领导具有讲师的教师地位，因为这些教师是入门课程教学专业知识的中心。然而，在该项目的扩张期内，将招聘其他类型的教员，并将其加入核心系组。这个项目是一个应用研究项目，旨在调查这种转变努力背后的变化理论是否如预期的那样起作用。