BIORETS: BioInteractions

BIORETS：生物相互作用

• 批准号: 2147012
• 负责人: Michelle Borrero
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-15 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147012&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BIORETS; BioInteractions

The Department of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus proposes a Resarch Experience for Teacher Program focused on the overarching theme of Biological & Biomolecular Interactions; hence BIORETS: BioInteractions. The long-term goal of BIORETS: Biointeractions is to improve middle and high school students’ scientific literacy and positive attitudes towards STEM. This will be achieved by engaging teachers in a professional development program that is focused on immersion in biological research and the development of standards-centered curriculum material based on their research experience. The program’s design will provide an ecosystem of support for teachers’ professional development where teachers are at the center of all the interactions within it. Teacher participants will engage in a broad range of research activities: from molecular biology to macroecology. In addition, teachers will participate in various seminars and workshops to ensure they successfully engage in their research projects and have the support to implement curricular materials of their design. These workshops fall into the following categories: scientific process, instructional design, and action research. Teachers will be encouraged to integrate elements of differentiated instruction in the design of the curricular materials to promote the inclusion of students with learning disabilities. The project has been conceptualized in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Department of Education; thus, it inherently provides a broad impact to low-income, Hispanic students at under-performing schools. A manual with all the curricular materials produced by the project will be shared via the Internet and the Puerto Rico Department of Education.The need to provide research experiences to science teachers emerges from traditional science teacher preparation programs that lack apprenticeships in research. It has been shown that teachers that participate in research experiences increase the use of evidence-based practices in their classrooms and student achievement in science. In addition to research experiences, BIORETS: BioInteractions aims to foster teachers' use of action research as a means for critical reflection on their science teaching and empowerment. The project’s rationale is that if teachers receive a professional development experience that increases their STEM research and pedagogical skills, they will be empowered to make decisions that improve student STEM learning and student attitudes towards STEM. Hence, BIORETS: BioInteractions will investigate: 1) How do research experiences (scientific and/or action research) contribute to teacher empowerment to teach science in the classroom? and 2) Do students develop scientific literacy and is this reflected in a change in their attitudes towards math and science? Mixed methods following an explanatory sequential design will be used to address teacher empowerment. Surveys will be administered to measure teachers’ research/scientific literacy skills as well as teacher empowerment. A focus group will be conducted after teachers participate in the program and have answered pre/post survey questions. A quantitative correlation design will be used to address if students from teacher participants develop scientific literacy and change their attitudes towards math and science. Statistical correlation analysis will be used to explain the relationship between these scores.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.

生物学系在波多黎各里约Piedras校区的大学提出了一个研究经验的教师计划，重点是生物生物分子相互作用的首要主题;因此BIORETS：生物相互作用。 BIORETS：生物相互作用的长期目标是提高初中和高中学生的科学素养和对STEM的积极态度。这将通过让教师参与专业发展计划来实现，该计划的重点是沉浸在生物研究中，并根据他们的研究经验开发以标准为中心的课程材料。该计划的设计将为教师的专业发展提供一个支持的生态系统，教师是其中所有互动的中心。教师参与者将从事广泛的研究活动：从分子生物学到宏观生态学。 此外，教师将参加各种研讨会和讲习班，以确保他们成功地从事他们的研究项目，并有支持，以实施他们设计的课程材料。这些研讨会分为以下几类：科学过程，教学设计和行动研究。将鼓励教师在课程材料的设计中纳入差异化教学的要素，以促进包容有学习障碍的学生。该项目是与波多黎各教育部合作构思的;因此，它必然会对成绩不佳学校的低收入西班牙裔学生产生广泛影响。 将通过因特网和波多黎各教育部分享一本载有该项目编制的所有课程材料的手册。向科学教师提供研究经验的需要出现在传统的科学教师准备计划中，缺乏研究方面的学徒制。它已被证明，参与研究经验的教师增加了在他们的课堂和学生的科学成就的循证实践的使用。除了研究经验外，生物可再生能源技术：生物互动旨在促进教师使用行动研究作为对其科学教学和赋权进行批判性反思的一种手段。该项目的基本原理是，如果教师获得专业发展经验，提高他们的STEM研究和教学技能，他们将有权作出决定，改善学生的STEM学习和学生对STEM的态度。因此，生物可再生能源技术：BioInteractions将调查：1）研究经验（科学和/或行动研究）如何有助于教师在课堂上教授科学？2）学生是否发展了科学素养，这是否反映在他们对数学和科学的态度上？ 混合的方法后，解释性的顺序设计将被用来解决教师赋权。将进行调查，以衡量教师的研究/科学素养技能以及增强教师能力的情况。在教师参与计划并回答了调查前/后的问题后，将进行一个焦点小组。一个定量的相关设计将被用来解决，如果教师参与的学生发展科学素养和改变他们对数学和科学的态度。统计相关性分析将用于解释这些分数之间的关系。该奖项反映了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。