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RCN-UBE: Creation of the Biology Educator/Researcher Cross-Segment Collective

RCN-UBE：创建生物教育者/研究人员跨部门集体

基本信息

批准号：
1920315
负责人：
Brian Sato
金额：
$ 49.96万
依托单位：
University of California-Irvine
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 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1920315&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RCN UBE Creation Biology Educator

项目摘要

The 2012 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Report expressed the need to increase the number of STEM college graduates by one million to fill current and future demand for STEM professionals. In the ensuing discussions, community-college and transfer students have been a neglected population. These individuals are particularly relevant as roughly one-quarter of college students nationwide begin their higher-education career at a two-year institution, including a disproportionate number of underrepresented students. The Biology Educator/Researcher Cross-Segment Collective (BERCC) aims to improve community college and transfer student outcomes by facilitating the formation of faculty learning communities (FLC) comprised of faculty from two- and four-year institutions. FLC members will work to collaboratively and iteratively develop evidence-based teaching practices or programs, assess their effectiveness, and share their experiences and disseminate the resulting products through biology education publications, conference presentations, and the BERCC website. These partnerships will lead to closer ties between neighboring colleges and universities, improved educational experiences for students, and a greater wealth of educational resources for instructors across the country. BERCC aims to improve educational outcomes for community-college and transfer students in the biological sciences. Specifically, the Collective's objectives are to: 1) Increase implementation of evidence-based practices in biology courses or programs to improve student outcomes at multiple higher education institutions; 2) Form faculty learning communities comprised of individuals representing a variety of institution types to develop the practices mentioned in objective 1); and 3) Assess implementation of objectives 1 and 2 in a scholarly manner to capture student outcomes across institutional contexts, while contributing to the growing body of Biology Education Research (BER). BERCC will leverage existing resources in the BER community, including the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching (SI), the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education (JMBE) and the journal CourseSource. By piloting this program at two regions across the country, California and North Carolina, BERCC will establish a sustainable model to bring together two- and four-year colleagues who are committed to improving outcomes for their community college and transfer student populations.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.

2012年总统科学技术顾问理事会报告表示，需要增加100万STEM大学毕业生，以满足当前和未来对STEM专业人员的需求。在随后的讨论中，社区大学和转学生一直是一个被忽视的群体。这些人尤其重要，因为全国约有四分之一的大学生开始在两年制院校开始他们的高等教育生涯，其中包括不成比例的代表性不足的学生。生物学教育工作者/研究人员跨部门集体（BERCC）旨在通过促进由两年制和四年制机构的教师组成的教师学习社区（FLC）的形成来改善社区学院和学生的学习成果。FLC成员将努力协作并迭代开发循证教学实践或项目，评估其有效性，分享他们的经验并通过生物教育出版物、会议演示和BERCC网站传播最终产品。这些合作伙伴关系将导致邻近学院和大学之间的联系更加紧密，学生的教育经验得到改善，全国各地的教师的教育资源更加丰富。BERCC旨在提高社区学院的教育成果，并在生物科学方面转移学生。具体而言，集体的目标是：1）增加生物课程或计划中基于证据的实践的实施，以提高多个高等教育机构的学生成绩; 2）形成由代表各种机构类型的个人组成的教师学习社区，以发展目标1）中提到的实践;和3）以学术的方式评估目标1和2的实施情况，以捕捉学生在机构环境中的成果，同时为生物学教育研究（BER）的不断发展做出贡献。BERCC将利用BER社区的现有资源，包括生物学教育研究促进协会（SABER），科学教学暑期研究所（SI），微生物学和生物学教育杂志（JMBE）和CourseSource杂志。通过在全国两个地区（加州和北卡罗来纳州）试行该项目，BERCC将建立一个可持续的模式，将致力于改善社区学院和转学生群体成果的两年和四年制同事聚集在一起。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。