Conference: Dream Catcher or Dream Killer: The Impact of Gateway Courses on Transfer Students in the Biological Sciences; U.C-Davis; Summer/Fall, 2017

会议：捕梦网还是梦想杀手：入门课程对生物科学转学生的影响；

• 批准号: 1734336
• 负责人: Marina Crowder
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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: 2017-07-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1734336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Dream; Catcher; Killer; Impact

This two day conference will launch a network of educational stakeholders from community colleges and the University of California (UC) to develop and implement a shared vision for the support and preparation of biology transfer students. The disparity in performance and career trajectories of biology transfer students compared to freshman start students is a critical problem that must be addressed, particularly in light of the high percentage of underrepresented and underserved students attending California community colleges. The proposed conference is the first of its kind in the region for educators and advisors from these institutions to meet and discuss the curriculum and expectations of their courses and programs, challenges students face, and potential solutions. This is particularly important for biology given the very large number of majors, student diversity, and the transformative and fast pace of changes in discoveries and technology with numerous interdisciplinary ties to other STEM fields. The results of this effort have the potential to impact thousands of transfer students a year and represents an initial effort to generate a scalable, collaborative, and sustainable instructional model for California and beyond. The conference will include 55-60 individuals with equal representation from the UC and the community colleges. UC Davis campus is an ideal central location in Northern California with over 32 community colleges within a 100-mile radius. Two to four members from each institution will be identified and invited (including faculty, advisors, transfer coordinators, administrators) to insure a multifaceted view of the issues and buy-in from all stakeholders. The specific objectives include the following: 1) to establish more effective lines of communication between the UCs and community colleges in order to develop a shared vision; 2) to gather information about misalignments between the biology curriculum and prerequisites; 3) to initiate efforts toward better supporting successful learning progression for transfer students; 4) to discuss how the rapidly changing pace of research and technology is impacting curricula and requirements; and 5) to discuss instructional interventions and new teaching methods that could break the "sink or swim" instructional model that has plagued transfer students for many years. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).

这次为期两天的会议将启动来自社区学院和加州大学 (UC) 的教育利益相关者网络，以制定和实施支持和准备生物转学生的共同愿景。生物转学生与新生相比，在表现和职业轨迹上的差异是一个必须解决的关键问题，特别是考虑到就读加州社区学院的学生人数不足和服务不足的比例很高。拟议的会议是该地区首次由这些机构的教育工作者和顾问举行会议，讨论其课程和项目的课程和期望、学生面临的挑战以及潜在的解决方案。鉴于生物学专业数量众多、学生多样性，以及发现和技术的变革性和快速变化以及与其他 STEM 领域的众多跨学科联系，这一点对于生物学来说尤其重要。这项努力的结果有可能每年影响数以千计的转学生，并代表了为加州及其他地区建立可扩展、协作和可持续的教学模式的初步努力。会议将包括 55-60 名来自加州大学和社区学院的同等代表。加州大学戴维斯分校校园是北加州理想的中心位置，方圆 100 英里内拥有超过 32 所社区学院。将确定并邀请每个机构的两到四名成员（包括教师、顾问、转学协调员、管理人员），以确保对问题有多方面的看法并得到所有利益相关者的支持。具体目标包括： 1）在加州大学和社区学院之间建立更有效的沟通渠道，以形成共同的愿景； 2）收集有关生物课程与先决条件之间不一致的信息； 3) 努力更好地支持转学生的成功学习进程； 4）讨论快速变化的研究和技术步伐如何影响课程和要求； 5）讨论教学干预和新的教学方法，以打破多年来困扰转学生的“沉或游”教学模式。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为其努力解决本科生物教育愿景和变革：行动呼吁 (http://visionandchange/finalreport/) 中提出的挑战的一部分。