Collaborative Research: Developing Service-Learning Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences to Increase Student Interest in Research by Targeting Communal Goals

合作研究：开发基于服务学习课程的本科生研究经验，通过瞄准共同目标来提高学生的研究兴趣

• 批准号: 2310250
• 负责人: Kelsie Bernot
• 金额: $ 23.82万
• 依托单位: Florida Atlantic University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2310250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Developing; Service; Learning

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the diversity of the STEM workforce of the United States. To do so, the project proposes to increase students’ perception of, interest in, and motivation to pursue research careers. Research studies have shown that students, particularly women, students from historically underserved groups, and first-generation students, often value communal goals of working together and helping people. Consequently, the project proposes to create innovative undergraduate courses in which students not only perform STEM research but also apply their research work to directly serve their communities. This combination of research and service learning has the potential to transform students’ ideas about research, including the capacity of research to help people. In addition, it can also empower the communities with whom the students work.We propose to combine two high-impact practices, service learning and research experiences, to create a Service-Learning theme within a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (SL-CURE). This SL-CURE will be implemented in three different institutions: (1) a large, public, historically black university; (2) a small, private, predominantly white liberal arts college; and (3) a large, public Hispanic serving institution in the context of multiple disciplines (biology, public health, social work). Assessing the impact of the SL-CURE will be grounded in the theory of the transtheoretical stages of change from pre-contemplation (when students don’t consider research as a potential career) through preparation (when students develop scientific skills and a broader, more realistic perspective of research affordance of communal goals). The project will also contribute to the STEM education community by assessing how specific implementations of service-learning, including community-based participatory research, science communication and outreach, and mentoring, influence students’ perceptions of, interest in, and engagement in research practices not only during the course, but also one to two years beyond course completion. Disseminating this model is expected to influence existing and future CURES, which may result in a strong positive impact on retaining diverse individuals in the STEM workforce pipeline. This project is supported by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources. The IUSE: EHR program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is in the Engaged Student Learning track, through which 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.

该项目旨在通过增加美国STEM劳动力的多样性来服务于国家利益。为此，该项目建议提高学生对从事研究事业的认识、兴趣和动机。研究表明，学生，尤其是女性，来自历史上服务不足群体的学生，以及第一代学生，往往重视共同努力和帮助他人的共同目标。因此，该项目建议创建创新的本科课程，学生不仅可以进行STEM研究，还可以将他们的研究成果直接应用于社区。这种研究与服务学习的结合有可能改变学生对研究的看法，包括研究帮助人们的能力。此外，它还可以赋予学生工作的社区权力。我们建议结合两种高影响力的实践，服务学习和研究经验，在基于课程的本科研究经验（SL-CURE）中创建一个服务学习主题。这种SL-CURE将在三个不同的机构中实施：(1)一所大型的、公立的、历史悠久的黑人大学；(2)以白人为主的小型私立文理学院；(3)在多学科（生物学、公共卫生、社会工作）背景下的大型公共西班牙裔服务机构。评估SL-CURE的影响将基于从预先思考（当学生不将研究视为潜在的职业）到准备（当学生培养科学技能和更广泛，更现实的研究视角对共同目标的支持）的跨理论阶段的变化理论。该项目还将通过评估服务学习的具体实施（包括基于社区的参与性研究、科学传播和推广以及指导）如何影响学生对研究实践的看法、兴趣和参与，从而为STEM教育界做出贡献，不仅在课程期间，而且在课程完成后的一到两年。传播这一模式有望影响现有和未来的CURES，这可能会对在STEM劳动力管道中保留不同个体产生强烈的积极影响。本项目由美国国家科学基金改进本科STEM教育计划：教育与人力资源资助。IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。该项目处于“参与学生学习”轨道，通过该轨道，该项目支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。