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得和使用STEM知识，以及教师如何帮助学生学习。基于计算机的教育研究人员（DBER）通过将他们的STEM专业知识应用于教学和学习的研究来促进这种理解。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。北达科他州州立大学（NDSU）的本科生研究体验（REU）网站将通过举办一个暑期项目来满足这一需求，该项目将吸引30名本科生在科学和数学领域进行基于学科的教育研究。通过这个REU网站，学生参与者将从各种各样的研究项目中进行选择，这些项目提出了关于STEM教学和学习性质的重要问题。教师导师的跨学科团队提供了跨生物学，化学，数学，物理学和心理学学科的一套多样化的项目。研究的这种多样性使REU参与者接触到近十个其他项目，以丰富他们的经验和对DBER进行的调查广度的理解。学生将通过与导师的在线互动，包括阅读和讨论相关的研究论文，来启动他们的研究经验。这种早期的虚拟指导的好处将是双重的：学生接受教育研究的基本培训，并在抵达校园之前开始与他们的研究导师建立关系。一旦他们到达NDSU，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良好的专业发展系列，他们将学习道德实践;研究方法;科学交流和演讲技巧;研究生院的途径;和STEM职业。学生们将通过非正式的粉笔会谈在节目的上半年，然后在夏季结束时的顶点海报研讨会更正式地介绍他们的研究和成果。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网站。学生入学和退出调查，学生访谈，教师调查和校友后续调查将提供必要的数据，为持续的程序改进。总的来说，REU网站将建立以学科为基础的教育研究人才库，并为改善本科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项目由NSF的教育人力资源理事会核心研究（ECR）计划和改进本科生STEM教育（IUSE）计划支持。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