Braiding Opportunities in Training, Advocacy, and Networking for Young Scientists (BOTANY Scientists)

该项目旨在通过建立实践来提高学生在植物学方面的心态和坚持不懈，从而服务于国家利益。鉴于植物学对农业、土地和自然资源管理、保护和减缓气候变化的重要性，攻读这些领域的学生必须对植物学有很强的理解。鉴于这些问题的广泛规模，我们必须招募和留住来自不同背景的学生进入这一领域。因此，该项目将调查学术、社会和研究支持干预措施，在这些干预措施下，因种族或种族(同龄人)而被排除在外的人的学习会有所改善。通过多方面的方法让学生参与学习，该项目将建立在证明有效的教育实践的基础上，并以新颖的方式扩展和探索这些实践。在一定程度上，这些措施包括积极与有社区联系的学生合作，颠覆通常使用的管道模式，使其涵盖绝大多数学生接受高等教育和取得成功的方式，并纳入与K-12植物学教育工作者的接触。此外，还将与犹他州原住民、犹他州原生植物协会和锡安国家公园建立战略伙伴关系。这个项目将成为一个更好地了解帮助学生在植物学中实现他们的学业和职业目标的最有用的干预措施的模型。本项目旨在整合六种方法来改善植物学方面的招聘和留住：1)通过开发和实施教育和外展材料，在K-12阶段进行早期干预，2)帮助过渡到大学的夏季桥梁计划，3)通过锡安国家公园的植物学和生态实地经验早期引入研究，4)同伴指导，5)利用犹他州教师的积极学习实践进行学术培训，以及6)适当的自我评估，以修订和确定最佳(组合)实践。将使用贝叶斯方法来评估干预策略的组合，以便产生新的信息，说明哪些招募和保留干预措施的组合能够在植物学领域取得更大的成功。因此，该项目提供了一种新的分析视角，可以用来解决长期存在的关于扩大植物学参与的最佳做法的问题。总的来说，这些方法将有助于增加同龄人在一个重要研究领域接受高等教育的机会和参与，并将在更广泛的范围内帮助学生在植物学领域取得成功。NSF IUSE：EHR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。通过参与式学生学习1级，该计划支持创建、探索和实施有前途的实践和工具。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by establishing practices to improve student mindset and persistence in botany. Given the importance of botany to agriculture, land and natural resource management, conservation, and mitigating climate change it is imperative that students pursing these areas have a strong understanding of botany. Given the broad scale of these issues it is important that we recruit and retain students from diverse backgrounds into the field. Therefore, this project will investigate academic, social, and research support interventions under which improved learning occurs for persons excluded because of their ethnicity or race (PEERs). Through a multifaceted approach to engage student learning, this project will build on educational practices that are demonstrably effective and extend and explore these in novel ways. These include, in part, actively working with students who have community ties, upending the commonly used pipeline model to one that encompasses the manners in which the vast majority of students approach higher education and success, and incorporating outreach to K-12 educators in botany. Additionally, strategic partnerships will be developed with native Utah nations, the Utah Native Plant Society and Zion National Park. Emerging from this project will be a model to better understand the most useful interventions to help students reach their academic and career goals in botany.This project intends to integrate six approaches to improve recruitment and retention in botany: 1) early intervention in K-12 via development and implementation of educational and outreach materials, 2) a summer bridge program to help with transition to college, 3) early introduction to research through botanical and ecological field experiences at Zion National Park, 4) peer mentorship, 5) academic training utilizing active-learning practices for teachers across Utah, and 6) appropriate self-assessment to revise and identify the best (combination of) practices. A Bayesian approach will be employed to evaluate the combination of intervention strategies in order to generate novel information on which combinations of recruitment and retention interventions lead to greater success in botany. As such, this project offers a new analytical lens that can be used to address long-standing questions on best practices for broadening participation in botany. Collectively, these approaches will help increase access to and participation in higher education for PEERs in an important area of study and will aid students more broadly in reaching a successful career in botany. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning Level 1, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.