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

有效和包容的科学教育通过支持创新、发现和经济稳定而造福国家。尽管从事科学工作有许多已知的好处，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，都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取更好地支持学生学习和包容所有学生的教学做法，但可能缺乏适当的支持结构和资源来实现这一任务。为了满足这一需求，案例辅导网络项目侧重于提供个性化的教师辅导，培训教师如何使用和编写有效和包容各方的案例研究，以及免费分享编写的资源。这个项目还将提供关于如何利用这些教师指导方法的优势来支持学生科学认同的发展的洞察力。国家科学基金会和本科生物学教育的愿景和变化的指导原则：行动呼吁是支持培养一支多样化的、有科学能力和韧性的劳动力队伍。首先，该项目将汇集不同培训和背景的个人，以支持个性化指导，并培训教师采用一种高效的教学方法，即基于案例的学习。其次，该项目将以引人入胜、及时和相关的叙述性案例研究的形式，产生广泛的可免费获取的教学资源。这些案例研究将通过整合生物学、社会科学和司法，以一种对我们现代世界真实的方式进行精心设计。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支持教师的个性化网络，126个不同的案例研究作者，以及60个基于社会相关科学主题的案例研究。此外，该项目将评估采用案例研究和网络有效性的潜在障碍，以及基于案例的学习除了内容掌握外，还将如何影响学生作为科学界早期职业成员的身份。该项目由生物科学局生物基础设施部和STEM教育局本科生教育部共同资助，作为他们应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》(http://visionandchange/finalreport/)中提出的挑战的努力的一部分。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。

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.