Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference Proposal: Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education

关于本科生物学教育研究（UBER）的戈登研究会议（GRC）将允许大量学者研究如何改进本科生物学教育。为期五天的会议将为UBER社区的思想领袖提供机会，让他们聚集在一个鼓励合作的环境中，面对面地讨论该领域的未来，以及社区如何应对新出现的机遇，挑战和重要问题。GRC将促进下一代加速生物教育研究的想法，告知国家优先事项，并促进扩大循证实践。为了实现这些目标，这一重要的全国性会议的目的是：1）暴露与会者的国家的最先进的生物学教学方法的多样化集会; 2）引起对当代问题的深入讨论，将提高本科生物学研究;并且，在本发明中，3）继续就与证据实施规模有关的问题发展共同语言和概念理解-基于实践的本科生物学教育。会议将促进研究成果的综合，并形成新的合作和研究链，这将导致改善生物学学习的数十万学生参加了不同的生物学课程。PI和咨询委员会将邀请最近在高等教育系统和未来生物教育研究人员中担任领导职务的参与者。后者将参加附属的研究生研究研讨会，为期两天的会前会议，重点是指导和支持代表下一代生物教育研究专业人员的研究生和博士后。会议与会者的集体努力将有助于维持和改善本科生物学教育以及到future.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (UBER) will allow a critical mass of scholars who study how improvements in undergraduate biology education can be scaled to assemble. The five-day conference will provide opportunities for thought leaders in the UBER community to gather in an environment that encourages collaborative, face-to-face conversations about the future of the field and how the community can address emerging opportunities, challenges, and important questions.The GRC will foster the next generation of ideas for accelerating biology education research, informing national priorities, and promoting the scaling of evidence-based practices. To meet these goals, this important national gathering aims to: 1) expose a diverse assemblage of attendees to state-of-the-art approaches for teaching biology; 2) engender deep discussions about contemporary issues that will improve undergraduate biology research; and, 3) continue the development of a common language and conceptual understanding of issues related to scaling implementation of evidence-based practices in undergraduate biology education. The conference will facilitate the synthesis of research findings and the formation of new collaborations and research strands that will lead to improved biology learning for hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in diverse biology programs. The PI and advisory committee will invite participants who have recently taken on leadership positions within the higher educational system and future biology education researchers. The latter will participate in the affiliated Graduate Research Seminar, a two-day pre-meeting focused on mentoring and supporting graduate students and post-docs who represent the next generation of biology education research professionals. The collective efforts of conference attendees will help sustain and improve undergraduate biology education well into the future.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.