An Interdisciplinary Faculty Community Using a Protein-focused Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) to Improve Student Learning

跨学科教师社区利用基于蛋白质课程的本科研究经验 (CURE) 来改善学生的学习

• 批准号: 1726932
• 负责人: Ellis Bell
• 金额: $ 59.87万
• 依托单位: University of San Diego
• 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: 2017-09-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1726932&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Faculty; Community; Using; Protein

The Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Report, as well as other publications, recommend integration of core concepts and skills throughout the curriculum and a focus on student-centered learning environments using validated high impact practices, such as research experiences for all students. This project will engage students in undergraduate research and incorporate research activities into a classroom context using a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). The overall goal is to create a faculty network using protein-centric CUREs to serve a community of biochemists, chemists and biologists, and also examine essential CURE aspects to improve pedagogical development. This project has the potential to transform the impact of teaching laboratories at participating institutions by the incorporation of quantitative, authentic research into the classroom and curriculum. This project brings together STEM disciplinary faculty from two and four year (undergrad and research intensive-land grant) institutions to fill a CUREs gap by creating self-supporting and sustainable protein-centric CUREs focused on the enzyme malate dehydrogenase. This protein-centric CUREs community will examine two critical aspects of a CURE: 1) the impact of the length of CUREs (course long CUREs (cCUREs) or shorter modular CUREs (mCUREs)), and 2) the role of research collaborations across courses or institutions to assess their importance for student learning, retention and motivation. Student and Faculty outcomes will be assessed using validated assessment tools and an outside evaluator working with both an internal advisory team and an external advisory board as well as the participants. This project will build a framework supporting a sustained, protein-centric CURE community to foster adoption amongst higher education institutions to impact a large and diverse set of students.

《本科生物学中的愿景与变化》报告以及其他出版物建议在整个课程中整合核心概念和技能，并重点关注以学生为中心的学习环境，使用经过验证的高影响力实践，例如为所有学生提供研究经验。这个项目将让学生参与本科生的研究，并将研究活动纳入课堂环境中，使用基于课程的本科生研究体验(CURE)。总体目标是创建一个教员网络，使用以蛋白质为中心的疗法来服务于生物化学家、化学家和生物学家的社区，并检查基本的疗法方面，以改善教学发展。该项目有可能通过将定量、真实的研究纳入课堂和课程，改变参与机构教学实验室的影响。该项目汇集了来自两年和四年制(本科生和研究密集型土地赠款)机构的STEM学科教员，通过创建以苹果酸脱氢酶为重点的自给自足和可持续的以蛋白质为中心的治疗方法来填补治疗空白。这个以蛋白质为中心的治疗社区将检查治疗的两个关键方面：1)治疗长度的影响(课程较长的治疗(CCURE)或较短的模块治疗(MCURE))，以及2)跨课程或机构的研究合作的作用，以评估它们对学生学习、保持和动机的重要性。学生和教师的成绩将使用经过验证的评估工具和一名外部评估员与内部咨询团队和外部咨询委员会以及参与者一起进行评估。该项目将建立一个框架，支持一个持续的、以蛋白质为中心的治疗社区，以促进高等教育机构的采用，以影响大量和多样化的学生。