RCN-UBE: The Research on STEM Education Network: Improving Research Inclusivity through a Grassroots Culture of Scientific Teaching

RCN-UBE：STEM 教育网络研究：通过科学教学的草根文化提高研究包容性

• 批准号: 1826988
• 负责人: James Morris
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826988&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Research; STEM; Education

Less than half of the students who begin their university careers in STEM majors ultimately graduate with a STEM degree, and this number is even lower for underrepresented minorities (URMs). Educational approaches that employ active, inquiry-based activities have been shown to improve persistence in STEM majors, but these methods are rare in introductory STEM classes, especially in the satellite colleges (e.g., community colleges and technical schools) where many URM and lower income students start their university career. The ROSE Network will seek to address this deficiency by creating a social network of faculty from both research universities and satellite colleges who share an interest in STEM education reform. ROSE will specifically work to introduce active learning and research-driven coursework to introductory biology courses at satellite colleges, and to increase the professional development opportunities for satellite college faculty. By implementing these reforms in areas with high URM populations, ROSE will seek to improve academic outcomes for these groups as well as to increase the proportion of URMs who choose graduate school or research careers after graduation.The ROSE Network will undertake three primary tasks in its first five years of existence. First, it will organize meetings linking STEM-education interested faculty from 3 research-intensive, URM-serving universities as well as a number of satellite colleges associated with them. These meetings are expected to nurture STEM education reform collaborations as well as to provide a critical support network for satellite college faculty looking to reform their courses. Second, ROSE will create a website and social media presence designed to increase awareness of STEM education research and resources available for faculty who wish to reform their courses. Finally, a ROSE postdoctoral fellow will be appointed who will provide critical assistance to satellite college faculty who submit proposals to design and implement active learning reforms in their classrooms. By seeding a culture of STEM education research and reform at the "grassroots" level of satellite college faculty, ROSE hopes to create a growing and persistent impact on undergraduate biology education.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, 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/). Co-funding was provided by the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在 STEM 专业开始大学生涯的学生中，只有不到一半最终获得 STEM 学位，对于代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 来说，这个数字甚至更低。采用积极的、基于探究的活动的教育方法已被证明可以提高 STEM 专业的持久性，但这些方法在 STEM 入门课程中很少见，尤其是在许多 URM 和低收入学生开始大学生涯的卫星学院（例如社区学院和技术学校）中。 ROSE 网络将通过创建一个由对 STEM 教育改革感兴趣的研究型大学和卫星学院教师组成的社交网络来解决这一缺陷。 ROSE将专门致力于将主动学习和研究驱动的课程引入卫星学院的生物学入门课程，并增加卫星学院教师的专业发展机会。通过在 URM 人口较多的地区实施这些改革，ROSE 将寻求提高这些群体的学术成果，并增加毕业后选择研究生院或研究职业的 URM 比例。ROSE 网络将在其成立的头五年中承担三项主要任务。首先，它将组织会议，将来自 3 所研究密集型 URM 服务大学以及与其相关的一些卫星学院的 STEM 教育感兴趣的教师联系起来。这些会议预计将促进 STEM 教育改革合作，并为希望改革课程的卫星大学教师提供关键的支持网络。其次，ROSE 将创建一个网站和社交媒体，旨在提高对 STEM 教育研究的认识，并为希望改革课程的教师提供可用资源。最后，将任命一名 ROSE 博士后研究员，为卫星学院教师提供关键帮助，帮助他们提交在课堂上设计和实施主动学习改革的建议。通过在卫星学院教师的“基层”层面播种 STEM 教育研究和改革的文化，ROSE 希望对本科生物教育产生日益增长和持久的影响。该项目由生物科学局、生物基础设施司和教育和人力资源局、本科教育司共同资助，作为他们努力解决本科生愿景和变革所带来的挑战的一部分。 生物教育：行动呼吁 (http://visionandchange/finalreport/)。该奖项由刺激竞争性研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 提供共同资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Which course resources and student approaches to learning are related to higher grades in introductory biology?

哪些课程资源和学生的学习方法与生物学入门课程的高分相关？

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of research in science mathematics and technology education
• 作者: Adkins, S;Brasfield, K;Tran, T;Morris, JJ;Raut, SA
• 通讯作者: Raut, SA

Championing awareness of the opioid epidemic through a service-learning module for non-STEM biology majors

• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1155659
• 发表时间: 2023-12-06
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Fleming，Ryleigh;Adkins，Sarah J.;Raut，Samiksha A.
• 通讯作者: Raut，Samiksha A.

Service-Learning Curriculum Increases Climate Change Awareness

服务学习课程提高气候变化意识

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Science education civic engagement
• 作者: Mendoza, Daniel A.;Adkins, Sarah J.;Bhatt, Jay M.;Morris, J. Jeffrey;Raut, Samiksha R.
• 通讯作者: Raut, Samiksha R.