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RCN-UBE Incubator: Using Citizen Science to Promote Research Experiences in Undergraduate Courses

RCN-UBE 孵化器：利用公民科学促进本科课程的研究经验

基本信息

批准号：
1919928
负责人：
Heather Vance-Chalcraft
金额：
$ 7.48万
依托单位：
East Carolina 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：
2019-09-01 至 2022-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919928&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RCN UBE Incubator Using Citizen

项目摘要

Citizen science is increasingly popular across a wide spectrum of organizations, including community groups, schools, and informal educational settings. Citizen science includes the public in the use of scientific practices to investigate phenomena. Involvement in citizen science projects has been shown to improve understanding of the scientific method and belief that one can do science, as well as demonstrate the relevance of science to peoples' homes, communities, and lives. Thus, it provides a valuable opportunity to bring authentic scientific discovery into undergraduate classrooms to produce students who are job ready in the 21st century. A lack of coordination among citizen science developers, scientists, and instructors, however, is impeding progress in the use of citizen science in higher education classrooms to a high capacity. This project will create a network of individuals involved in the development, implementation, and data end-users of citizen science projects to determine the best practices associated with using citizen science projects in higher education. The increased dialogue created through this network will improve not only undergraduate biology education, but also the generation of scientific data. The project has far reaching impacts from diversity and inclusion, professional development, higher education pedagogy, curriculum development, and even citizen science project creation/management.This RCN-Incubator will increase collaboration among diverse individuals involved with the development and use of citizen science, compile prior research showing the learning benefits of citizen science in higher education, examine known examples of how citizen science has been used in courses, and compile a list of tools needed to ease implementation of citizen science in higher education. These objectives will be met through two in-person meetings and four virtual meetings, as well as the regular use of digital communication. Final databases and syntheses will be made publicly available on websites and through a final peer-reviewed publication. The results of this Incubator grant will provide a launching point for a full RCN proposal to produce the tools necessary to ease implementation and better understand the contextual subtleties associated with the use of diverse citizen science projects in diverse courses and institution types. Having a formalized network of ambassadors for the use of citizen science in higher education should increase the number of undergraduates participating in citizen science, resulting in increased self-efficacy, content knowledge, and development of a scientific mindset. These gains will facilitate the persistence of students in STEM fields and perhaps even increased engagement of their communities in the generation of novel scientific findings.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.

公民科学在广泛的组织中越来越受欢迎，包括社区团体、学校和非正式的教育机构。公民科学包括公众利用科学实践来调查现象。参与公民科学项目已经被证明可以提高对科学方法的理解和人们可以做科学的信念，并展示科学与人们的家庭、社区和生活的相关性。因此，它提供了一个宝贵的机会，将真正的科学发现带入本科课堂，培养21世纪就业准备的学生。然而，公民科学开发者、科学家和教师之间缺乏协调，阻碍了高等教育课堂中公民科学的高效应用。该项目将创建一个由参与公民科学项目开发、实施和数据最终用户的个人组成的网络，以确定在高等教育中使用公民科学项目的最佳实践。通过这个网络增加的对话不仅会改善本科生物学教育，也会改善科学数据的生成。该项目从多样性和包容性、专业发展、高等教育教学法、课程开发，甚至公民科学项目的创建/管理等方面产生了深远的影响。这个RCN-Incubator将增加参与发展和使用公民科学的不同个人之间的合作，汇编先前的研究，显示公民科学在高等教育中的学习益处，检查公民科学如何在课程中使用的已知例子，并编制一份简化在高等教育中实施公民科学所需的工具清单。这些目标将通过两次面对面会议和四次虚拟会议以及经常使用数字通信来实现。最后的数据库和综合资料将在网站上和通过一份经同行评审的出版物向公众提供。孵化器资助的结果将为完整的RCN提案提供一个起点，以产生必要的工具，以简化实施，并更好地理解与在不同课程和机构类型中使用不同公民科学项目相关的上下文微妙之处。建立一个正式的公民科学大使网络，促进公民科学在高等教育中的应用，应该会增加参与公民科学的本科生的数量，从而提高自我效能感、内容知识和科学思维的发展。这些成果将促进学生在STEM领域的坚持，甚至可能增加他们的社区在产生新的科学发现方面的参与。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，作为他们努力解决本科生物学教育的愿景和变化所带来的挑战的一部分：行动呼吁奖（http://visionandchange/finalreport/）This)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

期刊论文数量（9）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Undergraduate Student Experiences with Citizen Science Highlight Potential to Broaden Scientific Engagement

本科生的公民科学体验凸显了扩大科学参与的潜力

DOI：
10.5334/cstp.419
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
影响因子：
0
作者：
Johns, Brianna;Thomas, Dana;Lundgren, Lisa;Larson, Lincoln;Cooper, Caren
通讯作者：
Cooper, Caren

Using Citizen Science to Incorporate Research into Introductory Biology Courses at Multiple Universities

利用公民科学将研究纳入多所大学的生物学入门课程

DOI：
10.5334/cstp.424
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
影响因子：
0
作者：
Vance-Chalcraft, Heather D.;Gates, Terry A.;Hogan, Kelly A.;Evans, Mara;Bunnell, Anne;Hurlbert, Allen H.
通讯作者：
Hurlbert, Allen H.

Expanding the Scope of Citizen Science: Learning and Engagement of Undergraduate Students in a Citizen Science Chemistry Lab

扩大公民科学的范围：本科生在公民科学化学实验室中的学习和参与