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Coordinating a Teaching Excellence Network to Engage STEM Faculty in Teaching Reform

协调卓越教学网络，让 STEM 教师参与教学改革

基本信息

批准号：
2013315
负责人：
Mary Emenike
金额：
$ 195.78万
依托单位：
Rutgers University New Brunswick
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing 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=2013315&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Coordinating Teaching Excellence Network Engage

项目摘要

This project aims to serve the national interest by supporting STEM faculty members implementation of evidence-based teaching practices. Such practices have been shown to benefit all students and have a particularly strong impact on under-represented groups in STEM. However, the culture of academia often impedes faculty in adopting these practices and the pace of making the needed changes has been slow. This project seeks to facilitate faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices by approaching course transformation as an issue of institutional structure and faculty action. This project will operate from the premise that organizational and structural factors must be systematically addressed to increase faculty support for and efforts to improve undergraduate STEM education at research universities. This project will create a Teaching Excellence Network to provide professional development activities that approach the challenge of institutional change through multiple facets of faculty support. It employs an assets-based approach to target faculty motivation and initiative, and to catalyze lasting institutional and cultural change around teaching.This project aims to develop faculty agency to transform their courses by implementing evidence-based pedagogies. Project activities will include (1) formally coordinating existing institutional resources for teaching through the Teaching Excellence Network, (2) designing and implementing resources to decrease faculty barriers to course transformation, and (3) engaging institutional leadership in promoting and valuing teaching reform. This work will draw from theories of structure, agency, and motivation to produce knowledge about how faculty approach the reform process and will use current research on institutional barriers to educational reform to develop, assess, and disseminate an assets-based model of teaching professional development. 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.

该项目旨在通过支持STEM教职员工实施循证教学实践来服务于国家利益。事实证明，这种做法使所有学生受益，并对STEM中代表性不足的群体产生了特别大的影响。然而，学术界的文化经常阻碍教员采用这些做法，而且做出必要改变的步伐一直很慢。该项目旨在通过将课程转型作为制度结构和教师行动的问题来促进教师采用循证教学实践。该项目的运作前提是，必须系统地解决组织和结构因素，以增加教员对研究型大学本科生STEM教育的支持和努力。该项目将创建一个卓越教学网络，以提供专业发展活动，通过多方面的教师支持来应对机构变革的挑战。它采用基于资产的方法来瞄准教师的积极性和主动性，并催化围绕教学的持久的制度和文化变革。该项目旨在发展教师机构，通过实施基于证据的教学来改变他们的课程。项目活动将包括(1)通过教学卓越网络正式协调现有的教学机构资源，(2)设计和实施资源，以减少教师对课程转型的障碍，以及(3)让机构领导推动和评估教学改革。这项工作将借鉴结构、代理和激励理论，以产生关于教师如何处理改革进程的知识，并将利用当前对教育改革的体制障碍的研究来开发、评估和传播基于资产的教师专业发展模式。该项目得到了NSF改善本科生STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源的支持，该计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区转变和改进STEM教育的努力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。