Catalyst Project: Technically Speaking-Building Scientific Communication Self-efficacy

催化剂项目：从技术角度讲，建立科学传播自我效能

• 批准号: 2107301
• 负责人: Florence Lyons
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Albany State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2107301&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyst; Project; Technically; Speaking; Building

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate education and research. It is expected that the award will further the faculty member's research capability, improve research and teaching at the institution, and involve undergraduate students in research experiences. Albany State University intends to integrate science communication into the science (biology and chemistry) academic programs. The proposed curricular enhancements aim to bolster student scientific communication skills, which has the potential to impact their STEM identity and long-term retention in the STEM workforce. The purpose of the Technically Speaking: Building Scientific Communication Self-Efficacy Program (TSP) is to offer empirically based research, which may lead to an improvement of undergraduate STEM students’ academic competency in oral communication, as well as their scientific efficacy. Specific objectives include: (1) establishing course-based learning communities, (2) improve oral scientific communication (3) enhance scientific communication self-efficacy and scientific identity and (4) improve critical-thinking skills. Research is intended to lead to higher retention and graduation within STEM fields. The project, over the span of 2 years, will enroll students into two non-residential learning communities: ARC (Appreciating the Rhetoric of Chemistry) which pairs a chemistry class with a public speaking class and Raising the BAR (Biology and Rhetoric) which pairs a biology course with a public speaking course. The outreach to the K12 community will contribute to the development of scientific literacy among citizens of the community. The project will improve students’ ability to orally communicate their scientific pursuits to a broad audience through opportunities for reflection, sustained feedback, and mastery experiences. The TSP has the potential to result in improved STEM education and will help to develop a more competitive STEM workforce.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.

催化剂项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）提供支持，致力于建立教师的研究能力，以加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）本科教育和研究。预计该奖项将进一步提高教师的研究能力，改善研究和教学机构，并参与本科生的研究经验。奥尔巴尼州立大学打算将科学传播融入科学（生物学和化学）学术课程。拟议的课程改进旨在提高学生的科学沟通技能，这有可能影响他们的STEM身份和STEM劳动力的长期保留。技术演讲：建立科学交流自我效能计划（TSP）的目的是提供基于经验的研究，这可能会导致提高本科STEM学生的学术能力，在口头交流，以及他们的科学效能。具体目标包括：（1）建立以课程为基础的学习共同体;（2）提高科学口语交流能力;（3）增强科学交流自我效能感和科学认同感;（4）提高批判性思维能力。研究旨在提高STEM领域的保留率和毕业率。该项目，在2年的跨度，将招收学生进入两个非住宅学习社区：ARC（欣赏化学修辞），它对化学类与公共演讲类和提高酒吧（生物学和修辞），它对生物学课程与公共演讲课程。 对K12社区的宣传将有助于社区公民科学素养的发展。 该项目将通过反思、持续反馈和掌握经验的机会，提高学生向广大观众口头传达他们的科学追求的能力。TSP有可能改善STEM教育，并将有助于培养更具竞争力的STEM劳动力。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。