GP-EXTRA: Establishing high-impact curriculum to attract and retain students in a new environmental geology program

GP-EXTRA：建立高影响力的课程，以吸引和留住学生参加新的环境地质学课程

• 批准号: 1911476
• 负责人: James MacDonald
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Florida Gulf Coast University
• 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: 2019-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911476&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; EXTRA; Establishing; impact; curriculum

Part 1This IUSE:GEOPATHS pilot project consist of a linked summer field course experience and subsequent fall research-based course to help attract and retain students into a new Environmental Geology B.S. program at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). The summer field experiences and research-based course are linked through content and employ high-impact practices. Diversity will be addressed by targeting Hispanic and female students during recruitment. This will help to increase traditionally underrepresented students in geology majors. The field course will help overcome the physiographic limitations of the Florida Coastal Plain, by bringing students to the Bahamas. The field course is intended to strengthening students' interest in geology and their connections to a cohort. This pilot project will help increase knowledge which deals with the benefits of field experiences attracting and retaining students into geology majors. It will also test the knowledge that suggests exposing and engaging undergraduates in research attracts, retains, and sustains students in STEM majors. The evaluation of this grant will be conducted by the FGCU Whitaker Center for STEM Education. The evaluation will help achieve the goals of this proposal through formative and summative assessment.Part 2This IUSE: GEOPATHS pilot project consist of a linked summer field course experience and subsequent fall research-based course. The summer field course experience will consist of lower-level learning that builds towards higher-level learning through field-based research experiences. Learning will continue into the fall research-based course by engaging the students in several, short course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) that build off of the field course content. This project targets female and Hispanic students recruited from general education geology courses. The specific goals of the field course experience and the following research-based upper division courses are to: 1) attract students to the new Environmental Geology B.S. major; 2) create a diverse student population in this new major; 3) retain and graduate students from this Environmental Geology major; 4) increase student self-confidence and learning; and 5) provide much needed assessment to measure the effectiveness of both field courses and course-based undergraduate research experiences. This pilot project has the ability to create a diverse pipeline of geoscience graduates who can fill the geoscience workforce needs in the coming years.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.

这个IUSE:GEOPATHS试点项目包括一个相关的夏季实地课程体验和随后的秋季研究型课程，以帮助吸引和留住学生进入佛罗里达海湾海岸大学（FGCU）新的环境地质学学士学位课程。暑期实地体验和研究型课程通过内容和采用高影响力的实践相联系。在招聘过程中，将针对西班牙裔和女性学生来解决多样性问题。这将有助于增加传统上代表性不足的地质学专业学生。实地课程将帮助克服佛罗里达海岸平原的地理限制，通过带学生到巴哈马群岛。实地课程的目的是加强学生对地质学的兴趣和他们与群体的联系。这个试点项目将有助于增加有关实地经验的知识，吸引和留住学生进入地质学专业。它还将测试让本科生参与研究的知识，以吸引、留住和维持STEM专业的学生。这项资助的评估将由FGCU惠特克STEM教育中心进行。评估将通过形成性和总结性评估帮助实现本提案的目标。这个IUSE: GEOPATHS试点项目包括一个相关的夏季实地课程体验和随后的秋季研究型课程。暑期实地课程经验将包括较低层次的学习，通过实地研究经验建立更高层次的学习。学习将继续进入秋季研究型课程，通过让学生参与几个基于短期课程的本科研究经验（CUREs），这些研究经验建立在实地课程内容之上。这个项目的目标是从普通教育地质学课程中招募的女性和西班牙裔学生。实地课程体验和以下研究性高年级课程的具体目标是：1)吸引学生进入新的环境地质学学士学位专业；2)在这个新专业中创造一个多样化的学生群体；3)保留和培养本专业的学生；4)提高学生的自信心和学习能力；5)提供必要的评估，以衡量实地课程和基于课程的本科生研究经验的有效性。这个试点项目有能力培养多样化的地球科学毕业生，以满足未来几年地球科学劳动力的需求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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

POWDERED X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE STUDY OF THE CALOOSAHATCHEE AND FORT THOMPSON FORMATIONS, LEE AND HENDRY COUNTIES, SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. INSIGHTS INTO THE MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF THESE CARBONATES

佛罗里达州西南部李县和亨德利县卡卢萨哈奇和汤普森堡地层的粉末 X 射线衍射和便携式 X 射线荧光研究。

• DOI: 10.1130/abs/2023se-385752
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Abstracts with Programs,
• 作者: Lentz, Evan S.;Aurelio, R. Peter;Pennella, Rocco L.;Pecora, Domenic R.;Gordon, Emily P.;MacDonald, James;Barbosa, Alli
• 通讯作者: Barbosa, Alli

AN NSF GEOPATHS FUNDED COMBINED SUMMER AND FALL COURSE-BASED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN A DIVERSE GROUP OF STUDENTS INTO A NEW ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY PROGRAM

NSF Geopaths 资助了夏季和秋季课程的本科研究经历，以吸引和留住不同的学生群体进入新的环境地质学项目

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
• 作者: MacDonald, J.H.;Abercrombie, M.;Rotz, R.R.;Barbosa, A.
• 通讯作者: Barbosa, A.

The results of a course-based undergraduate research experience to attract and retain students to geoscience. A combined summer and fall experience

基于课程的本科生研究经验的成果吸引并留住学生进入地球科学领域。

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Abstracts with Programs
• 作者: Barbosa, A.;MacDonald, J.H.;Abercrombie, M.;Rotz, R
• 通讯作者: Rotz, R

UNEXPECTED BENEFITS REALIZED FROM NECESSARY RECONFIGURATION OF FIELD COURSE DUE TO COVID-19

由于新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情，现场课程需要重新配置，带来意想不到的好处

• DOI: 10.1130/abs/2021am-367185
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs
• 作者: Abercrombie, Mary;MacDonald, James;Rotz, Rachel;Barbosa, Alli;Muller, Joanne;Savarese, Michael
• 通讯作者: Savarese, Michael

CALCITE MINERALOGY FROM THE NASHUA FORMATION, FORT DRUM, AND FORT THOMPSON FORMATION, NORTH FORT MYERS, FLORIDA. AN NSF GEOPATH AND MRI FUNDED STUDY

来自佛罗里达州北迈尔斯堡的纳舒厄地层、德拉姆堡和汤普森堡地层的方解石矿物。

• DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022nc-375047
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs
• 作者: Piquiet, Megan;Molina, Richard;Morejon, Sophia;Roberts, Brandon;Jerew, Hailey R.;MacDonald, James;Barbosa, Alli;McManus, Gregory J.
• 通讯作者: McManus, Gregory J.