RCN-UBE: Case-based Active Science Education (CASE) Mentoring Network

有效和包容性的科学教育通过支持创新，发现和经济稳定而使国家受益。尽管科学生涯的好处是众所周知的，但许多学生，包括那些来自历史上代表性不足的群体的学生，认为生物学课程是留在科学领域的一个重大障碍。许多生物教师正在努力采用更好地支持学生学习的教学实践，并包括所有学生，但可能缺乏适当的支持结构和资源，使这项任务得以实现。为了满足这一需求，案例辅导网络项目的重点是提供个性化的教师辅导，培训使用和编写有效的和包容性的案例研究，并免费共享编写的资源。该项目还将提供深入了解如何利用这些教师指导方法的优势，以支持学生的科学identities.A的发展的指导原则，无论是国家科学基金会和愿景和本科生物学教育的变化：一个呼吁行动是支持培训多元化，科学能力，和弹性的劳动力。首先，该项目将汇集具有不同培训和背景的个人，以支持个性化辅导，并培训教师采用高效的教学方法，即基于案例的学习。第二，该项目将以引人注目、及时和相关的叙事案例研究的形式提供广泛的免费教学资源。这些案例研究将通过整合生物学，社会科学和正义的方式，是真实的我们的现代世界精心设计。最后，该项目将研究如何加强教师之间的联系，以及这些教学方法的采用和有效性。该项目的产品包括一个强大的个性化网络，以支持教师，126个不同的案例研究作者，和60个基于社会相关的科学主题的案例研究。此外，该项目将评估案例研究采用和网络有效性的潜在障碍，以及基于案例的学习如何影响学生作为科学界早期职业成员的身份以及内容掌握。该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会和本科教育部STEM教育理事会共同资助，作为应对本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的努力的一部分：行动呼吁（网址：//visionandchange/finalreport/）该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

Effective and inclusive science education benefits the country by supporting innovation, discovery, and economic stability. Despite the known benefits of a science career, many students, including those from historically underrepresented groups, identify biology coursework as a significant hurdle to remaining in science fields. Many biology teachers are working to adopt teaching practices that better support student learning and are inclusive of all students but may lack the proper support structures and resources to make this task achievable. To address this need, the CASE Mentoring Network project focuses on providing personalized teacher mentoring, training in using and writing effective and inclusive case studies, and freely sharing authored resources. This project will also provide insight into how to leverage the strengths of these teacher-mentoring approaches to support the development of students’ science identities.A guiding principle of both the National Science Foundation and Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action is to support training a diverse, scientifically capable, and resilient workforce. First, this project will bring together individuals with diverse training and backgrounds to support personalized mentoring and train teachers in a highly effective teaching method, known as case-based learning. Second, the project will produce a broad range of freely accessible teaching resources in the form of compelling, timely, and relevant narrative case studies. These case studies will be carefully designed by integrating biology, social science, and justice in a way that is authentic to our modern world. Finally, the project will study ways to enhance connections among teachers, as well as adoption and effectiveness of these teaching methods. Products for this project include a strong personalized network to support teachers, 126 diverse case-study authors, and 60 case studies based on societally relevant scientific topics. Furthermore, the project will evaluate potential barriers to case study adoption and network effectiveness, as well as how case-based learning impacts students’ identity as early-career members of the scientific community in addition to content mastery. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/ ).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.