RCN-UBE: Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM)

RCN-UBE：本科生 STEM 的公平性和多样性 (EDU-STEM)

• 批准号: 1919462
• 负责人: Sehoya Cotner
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 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: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919462&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Equity; Diversity; Undergraduate

To promote the progress of science, it is necessary to ensure that barriers to full participation by women, first-generation college students, and racial and ethnic minorities in STEM are identified and removed. Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM) is a Research Coordination Network that will include higher-education faculty, initially in the natural sciences, from a growing network of institutions across the United States. Through regular online discussions, a monthly newsletter, small workshops, and larger, annual meetings, EDU-STEM will begin by coordinating the efforts of participants to construct a data-management platform to better understand barriers to equity in STEM across regional and institution types. Possible barriers include, but are not limited to, large class sizes, reduced sense of inclusion, stereotype threat, a lack of role models, and test anxiety that disadvantages underrepresented groups. Working from these baseline data, EDU-STEM faculty will develop collaborative classroom-level experiments designed to reduce these barriers to success in STEM. EDU-STEM will impact society broadly by: (1) identifying barriers to inclusion in STEM; (2) implementing and testing educational interventions designed to increase participation, and (3) increasing the number of faculty engaged in reflective research on inclusion in STEM. Gaps - between males and females, and between ethnic and racial groups - are well established as challenges for STEM educators, yet less is known about the barriers to full participation in STEM or targeted strategies that instructors can overcome, in order to promote learning for all students. Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM) is a research coordination network that will integrate research and teaching in evidence-based classroom experiences, across life sciences curricula, using a multi-pronged approach. Specifically, the network will (a) coordinate efforts to identify metrics to be used across the network; (b) collect data on science courses at participating institutions (including research universities, community colleges, and minority-serving institutions); (c) construct a shared data-management tool to promote regional and institutional comparisons; (d) test and assess, in collaboration with an educational psychologist and small cohort of network partners, in situ interventions to minimize documented barriers; and (e) disseminate network findings via presentations at disciplinary meetings, publications, and the EDU-STEM website and newsletter. Also, EDU-STEM will involve institutional teams in a testable leadership model to promote cultural shifts in how science faculty - at both the departmental and institutional levels - approach evidence-based teaching. 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/).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.

为了促进科学进步，有必要确保妇女、第一代大学生以及少数种族和民族充分参与STEM的障碍得到识别和消除。本科生STEM（EDU-STEM）的公平和多样性是一个研究协调网络，将包括高等教育教师，最初在自然科学，从美国各地不断增长的机构网络。通过定期在线讨论、每月通讯、小型研讨会和大型年度会议，EDU-STEM将开始协调参与者的努力，构建一个数据管理平台，以更好地了解不同地区和机构类型的STEM公平障碍。可能的障碍包括，但不限于，大班规模，减少包容感，刻板印象的威胁，缺乏榜样，以及考试焦虑，不利的代表性不足的群体。根据这些基线数据，EDU-STEM教师将开发协作的课堂实验，旨在减少这些障碍，以取得成功。EDU-STEM将通过以下方式对社会产生广泛影响：（1）确定STEM包容性的障碍;（2）实施和测试旨在提高参与度的教育干预措施;（3）增加从事STEM包容性反思研究的教师人数。男女之间、族裔和种族群体之间的差距是STEM教育工作者面临的挑战，但人们对充分参与STEM的障碍或教师可以克服的有针对性的战略知之甚少，以促进所有学生的学习。本科生STEM（EDU-STEM）的公平和多样性是一个研究协调网络，它将使用多管齐下的方法，在循证课堂体验中整合研究和教学，跨越生命科学课程。具体而言，该网络将：（a）协调努力，确定整个网络使用的衡量标准;（B）收集参与机构的科学课程数据（c）建立一个共享的数据管理工具，以促进区域和机构比较;（d）与一名教育心理学家和一小群网络伙伴合作，测试和评估现场干预措施，以尽量减少记录在案的障碍;以及（e）通过在学科会议上的演讲、出版物以及EDU-STEM网站和通讯传播网络成果。此外，EDU-STEM将涉及机构团队在一个可测试的领导模式，以促进科学教师如何在部门和机构层面的文化转变-方法循证教学。该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会和本科教育部教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为应对本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的努力的一部分：行动呼吁（网址：//visionandchange/finalreport/）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进行评估，更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Inclusive Instructional Practices: Course Design, Implementation, and Discourse.

包容性教学实践：课程设计、实施和讨论。

• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2021.602639
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Frontiers in education
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Salehi, S.

Why students struggle in undergraduate biology: sources and solutions. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 21(3), ar48

为什么学生在本科生物学中遇到困难：来源和解决方案。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: CBE life sciences education
• 作者: Tracy, C.