REU Site: Growing up STEM: An Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Undergraduate STEM Education

REU 网站：成长 STEM：本科 STEM 教育的跨学科研究经验

• 批准号: 1852045
• 负责人: Jennifer Momsen
• 金额: $ 38.43万
• 依托单位: North Dakota State University Fargo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852045&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Growing; up; STEM

To enhance learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), we need to better understand how students acquire and use STEM knowledge, and how instructors can help students learn. Discipline-based education researchers (DBERs) contribute to this understanding by applying their STEM expertise to the study of teaching and learning. DBER is a relatively young field and we need to train more scholars to do this important research. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at North Dakota State University (NDSU) will address this need by hosting a summer program that will engage 30 undergraduate students in conducting discipline-based education research in science and mathematics.Through this REU Site, the student participants will select from a wide variety of research projects that pose important questions about the nature of teaching and learning in STEM. The interdisciplinary team of faculty mentors provides a diverse set of projects across the disciplines of biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and psychology. This diversity in research exposes REU participants to nearly a dozen other projects to enrich their experience with and understanding of the breadth of investigations conducted in DBER. Students will jump-start their research experience through online interactions with their mentors, including reading and discussing relevant research papers. The benefits of this early, virtual mentoring will be two-fold: students receive essential training in education research and begin to develop relationships with their research mentors prior to arriving on campus. Once they arrive at NDSU, the REU fellows will participate in a learning community that includes cohort-building activities, as well as both faculty and peer mentoring to support their research activities. REU students will also participate in a well-structured professional development series in which they will learn about ethical practices; research methods; scientific communication and presentation skills; pathways to graduate school; and careers in STEM. Students will present their research and results through informal chalk talks in the first half of the program and then more formally at a capstone poster symposium at the end of the summer. In addition to summative evaluation, the project team will implement continuous formative evaluation to provide feedback that helps them refine and improve the REU Site each year. Student entrance and exit surveys, student interviews, faculty surveys, and alumni follow-up surveys will provide essential data for continuous program improvement. Overall, this REU Site will build the discipline-based education research talent pool and contribute to improvements in undergraduate STEM education.The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in areas of research funded by NSF. This REU project is supported by NSF's Education & Human Resources Directorate Core Research (ECR) Program and its Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program.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.

为了加强科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 的学习，我们需要更好地了解学生如何获取和使用 STEM 知识，以及教师如何帮助学生学习。基于学科的教育研究人员 (DBER) 通过将其 STEM 专业知识应用于教学研究，为这种理解做出了贡献。 DBER是一个相对年轻的领域，我们需要培养更多的学者来做这项重要的研究。北达科他州立大学 (NDSU) 的本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站将通过举办暑期项目来满足这一需求，该项目将让 30 名本科生参与科学和数学方面基于学科的教育研究。通过该 REU 网站，学生参与者将从各种研究项目中进行选择，这些项目提出了有关 STEM 教学和学习性质的重要问题。跨学科的教师导师团队提供了跨生物学、化学、数学、物理和心理学等学科的多样化项目。这种研究的多样性使 REU 参与者接触了近十几个其他项目，以丰富他们对 DBER 进行的调查的经验和了解。学生将通过与导师的在线互动（包括阅读和讨论相关研究论文）来启动他们的研究体验。这种早期虚拟指导的好处有两个：学生接受教育研究方面的基本培训，并在到达校园之前开始与研究导师建立关系。到达 NDSU 后，REU 研究员将参加一个学习社区，其中包括队列建设活动以及教师和同行指导以支持他们的研究活动。 REU 学生还将参加一个结构完善的专业发展系列，在其中他们将学习道德实践；研究方法；科学沟通和表达能力；通往研究生院的途径；以及 STEM 领域的职业。学生将在课程前半部分通过非正式的粉笔演讲展示他们的研究和结果，然后在夏末的顶点海报研讨会上更正式地展示他们的研究和结果。除了总结性评估外，项目团队还将实施持续的形成性评估，以提供反馈，帮助他们每年完善和改进 REU 场地。学生入学和毕业调查、学生访谈、教师调查和校友跟踪调查将为项目的持续改进提供必要的数据。总体而言，该 REU 站点将建立基于学科的教育研究人才库，并为改善本科生 STEM 教育做出贡献。本科生研究经验 (REU) 计划支持本科生积极参与 NSF 资助的研究领域的研究。该 REU 项目得到 NSF 教育与人力资源理事会核心研究 (ECR) 计划及其改善本科生 STEM 教育 (IUSE) 计划的支持。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

Green Chemistry Coverage in Organic Chemistry Textbooks

有机化学教科书中的绿色化学覆盖范围

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00397
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Chemical Education
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Johnson, Sasha;Meyers, Megan;Hyme, Samantha;Leontyev, Alexey
• 通讯作者: Leontyev, Alexey