RCN-UBE: Failure as a part of Learning, A Mindset Education Network (FLAMEnet)

失败被广泛认为是STEM研究的一个组成部分，但目前的大学STEM教师很少采取有目的的措施来帮助学生培养他们应对和克服失败所需的韧性和毅力。虽然心理学家和教育研究人员对毅力和韧性是如何发展的有洞察力，但深入了解STEM学生的这些过程并创造实用工具来帮助学生实现这些结果将需要科学家和科学教师的投入。失败作为学习的一部分，心态教育网络(FLAMEnet)将不同的研究人员和利益相关者聚集在一起，设计、实施和评估培养本科生韧性和挑战态度的新方法。这些方法通过帮助培训一支高技能的劳动力队伍来广泛影响社会，这支队伍准备推动科学技术的发展，以满足我们日益复杂的需求。FLAMEnet的多样化成员包括心理学和教育研究人员，以确保所开发的资源在当前的理论框架中奠定坚实的基础，以及STEM讲师，他们提供宝贵的投入并获得STEM社区的认可。此外，网络成员的多样性激发了一套同样多样化的资源和干预战略的创建，这些资源和干预战略适用于生物科学内外和跨机构背景。我们将：1)开发资源和教材，帮助学生培养学术复原力；2)支持网络成员在实施和传播干预措施期间的旅行；3)通过年度研讨会扩大FLAMENet成员，以分享成果，制定和完善学术干预措施，并促进向网络成员机构的同事传播干预措施。综上所述，这些活动将增强我们影响STEM教育和未来STEM劳动力发展的能力。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。

Failure is widely accepted as an integral component of STEM research, yet current college STEM instructors rarely take intentional steps to help students develop the resilience and perseverance they need to cope with and overcome failures. While psychologists and education researchers have insights into how perseverance and resilience develop in general, deeply understanding these processes for STEM students and creating practical tools to help students achieve these outcomes will require input from scientists and science faculty. Failure as a part of Learning, A Mindset Education Network (FLAMEnet) brings together a diverse group of researchers and stakeholders to design, implement, and evaluate new approaches to cultivating resilience and challenge-seeking attitudes in undergraduate STEM students. These approaches broadly impact society by contributing to the training of a highly skilled workforce that is prepared to advance science and technology to meet our increasingly complex needs.FLAMEnet's diversified membership includes psychology and education researchers to ensure that the resources developed are solidly grounded in current theoretical frameworks, and STEM instructors who provide valuable input and secure buy-in from the STEM community. Furthermore, the diversity of the network members inspires the creation of an equally diverse set of resources and intervention strategies that are applicable within and beyond the biological sciences and across institutional contexts. Building on previous RCN-UBE incubator funding (DBI 1827160), we will: 1) Develop resources and instructional materials to aid students in cultivating academic resilience; 2) Support travel for network members during implementation and dissemination of interventions; 3) Expand FLAMEnet membership with annual workshops to share results, develop and refine academic interventions, and promote dissemination of interventions to colleagues at network member institutions. Taken together, these activities will enhance our ability to impact STEM education and the development of the future 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.