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

为了促进科学的进步，有必要确保女性、第一代大学生和少数族裔充分参与STEM的障碍得到识别和消除。本科STEM的公平性和多样性（EDU-STEM）是一个研究协调网络，将包括来自美国各地不断增长的机构网络的高等教育教师，最初是自然科学。通过定期在线讨论、每月通讯、小型研讨会和更大的年度会议，EDU-STEM将首先协调参与者的努力，构建一个数据管理平台，以更好地了解跨地区和机构类型的STEM公平障碍。可能的障碍包括，但不限于，班级规模大，归属感降低，刻板印象威胁，缺乏榜样，以及对代表性不足的群体不利的考试焦虑。根据这些基线数据，EDU-STEM教师将开发协作的课堂级实验，旨在减少STEM成功的这些障碍。EDU-STEM将通过以下方式对社会产生广泛影响：(1)确定融入STEM的障碍；(2)实施和测试旨在提高参与度的教育干预措施，以及(3)增加从事STEM包容性反思研究的教师数量。男性和女性之间、民族和种族群体之间的差距是STEM教育工作者面临的挑战，但人们对全面参与STEM的障碍或教师可以克服的有针对性的策略知之甚少，以促进所有学生的学习。本科STEM的公平性和多样性（EDU-STEM）是一个研究协调网络，将采用多管齐下的方法，在生命科学课程中整合基于证据的课堂经验的研究和教学。具体而言，该网络将(a)协调努力，以确定将在整个网络中使用的指标；(b)收集有关参与机构（包括研究型大学、社区学院和少数民族服务机构）的科学课程的数据；(c)建立一个共享数据管理工具，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；(e)通过在学科会议、出版物、EDU-STEM网站和通讯上发表报告，传播网络研究结果。此外，EDU-STEM将让机构团队参与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进行循证教学的文化转变。该项目由生物基础设施司生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为其应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》（http://visionandchange/finalreport/）所提出的挑战的努力的一部分。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。

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.