Expanding Sustainable Interdisciplinary Research to Inspire Undergraduate Success

扩大可持续的跨学科研究以激发本科生的成功

• 批准号: 2012891
• 负责人: Kelly McDonald
• 金额: $ 267.93万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises, Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2012891&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; Sustainable; Interdisciplinary; Research; Inspire

This project aims to serve the national interest by developing STEM curricula that promote inclusion of all learners and foster interdisciplinary problem-solving skills. Issues faced by society today are complex, and STEM graduates with diverse perspectives and real-world problem-solving skills are needed to solve them. These skills may be developed through undergraduate research or internships, but access to these experiences can be limited and unevenly available. This project will engage students at California State University, Sacramento and the four Los Rios District community colleges in course-based Authentic Learning Experiences. These learning experiences will engage students in the same processes that professionals use in the field to solve problems with unknown outcomes. The learning experiences further focus on the common scientific theme of human impacts on Northern California’s waterways, thus engaging students in a local, socially relevant problem. As part of this project, more than 50 faculty teaching 67 courses at five institutions will engage in an interdisciplinary, faculty-led community of practice with a shared vision for STEM education reform. The faculty learning community aims to 1) elevate faculty expertise in curriculum design and innovative pedagogies, 2) promote collaboration across disciplines and institutions and 3) support the implementation of course-based authentic learning experiences to broaden participation in research experiences. The project will examine how faculty across different disciplines and institution types collaborate to build, implement, and assess new curricula. It will further provide data on the impacts of experiential curricula on students from ten disciplines, as well as seek to generate new knowledge about Northern California’s water ecosystems. This project is supported by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources, which supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过开发STEM课程来服务于国家利益，促进所有学习者的包容性并培养跨学科解决问题的技能。当今社会面临的问题是复杂的，需要具有不同观点和现实世界解决问题能力的STEM毕业生来解决这些问题。这些技能可以通过本科研究或实习来开发，但获得这些经验的机会可能有限，而且不均衡。该项目将吸引加州州立大学、萨克拉门托和四所洛斯里奥斯区社区学院的学生参加基于课程的真实学习体验。这些学习经验将使学生参与专业人员在该领域使用的相同过程，以解决未知结果的问题。学习经验进一步关注人类对北方加州水道的影响这一共同的科学主题，从而使学生参与到当地的社会相关问题中。作为该项目的一部分，五个机构教授67门课程的50多名教师将参与一个跨学科、教师主导的实践社区，对STEM教育改革有共同的愿景。教师学习社区旨在1）提升教师在课程设计和创新课程方面的专业知识，2）促进跨学科和机构的合作，3）支持实施基于课程的真实学习体验，以扩大研究经验的参与。该项目将研究不同学科和机构类型的教师如何合作建立，实施和评估新课程。它将进一步提供关于体验课程对来自十个学科的学生的影响的数据，并寻求产生关于北方加州水生态系统的新知识。该项目得到了NSF改善本科STEM教育计划的支持：教育和人力资源，该计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持的努力，以改变和改善高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育.这个奖项反映了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支持.

项目成果

Implementing a course-based authentic learning experience with upper- and lower-division physics classes

通过高年级和低年级物理课程实现基于课程的真实学习体验

• DOI: 10.1119/5.0137141
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: American Journal of Physics
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: Jensen, Mikkel Herholdt;Morris, Eliza J.;Ray, M. W.
• 通讯作者: Ray, M. W.