Enhancing Disciplinary Learning to Diversify Biology Degree Pathways and Career Pursuits in the Ecological and Evolutionary Sciences

加强学科学习,使生态和进化科学领域的生物学学位途径和职业追求多样化

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    2318346
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 50万
  • 依托单位:
  • 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:
    2023-09-01 至 2027-08-31
  • 项目状态:
    未结题

项目摘要

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 2 project aims to diversify Ecology and Evolutionary Biology degree participation and career pursuits by integrating evidence-based reforms at the course, departmental, and institutional levels. This project is grounded in the perspective that disciplinary learning, which is a central component to a student’s declared major, their advancement to upper-division coursework, degree attainment and career participation, is a critical yet understudied and underutilized equity indicator. As such, disciplinary learning is a potentially foundational strategy for diversifying STEM disciplines. Therefore, monitoring learning is essential for instructors, departments, and institutions to empirically determine whether undergraduate coursework is fostering disciplinary inclusion or exclusion. Using a novel equity framework, this project integrates measures that capture critical facets of learning and allow stakeholders to generate meaningful indicators of progress towards equity goals. This new indicator has the potential to fill a gap in evidence-based decision making at undergraduate institutions.At the classroom scale, the project will begin reform efforts in gateway biology courses by (i) expanding a recently published active-learning and misconception-focused instructional approach through the interweaving of culturally-relevant curricula, (ii) integrating an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant program into biology classes to maximize student engagement and inclusion, and (iii) developing Ecology and Evolution-related career modules to link disciplinary concepts to real-world applications. Because gateway biology is only the beginning of a student’s academic journey, this project extends to the departmental scale by establishing a faculty learning community among faculty who teach the next level of ecology and evolution courses. This step will lay the groundwork to expand reforms into the next sequence of courses in the degree pathway. At the institutional scale, the project strengthens nascent partnerships with key institutional centers to develop and deploy modules about ecology and evolution careers directly into the classroom early in a student’s college experience. The approaches, materials, and results emerging from this work will be published and shared broadly with other Hispanic and Minority Serving Institutions. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs are supported by this program.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.
在改善本科STEM教育的支持下:西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)计划,该轨道2项目旨在通过整合课程,部门和机构层面的循证改革来实现生态学和进化生物学学位参与和职业追求的多样化。这个项目是基于这样一个观点,即学科学习,这是一个核心组成部分,以学生的申报专业,他们的进步,高年级的课程,学位的获得和职业参与,是一个关键的,但研究不足和利用不足的公平指标。 因此,学科学习是STEM学科多样化的潜在基础战略。因此,监测学习是必不可少的教师,部门和机构,以经验确定本科课程是否促进学科包容或排斥。该项目利用一个新的公平框架,整合了各种措施,这些措施抓住了学习的关键方面,并使利益攸关方能够制定有意义的公平目标进展指标。这一新指标有可能填补本科院校循证决策方面的空白。在课堂规模上,该项目将开始对入门生物学课程进行改革,具体做法是:(i)通过交织文化相关课程,(ii)将本科教学助理计划融入生物学课程,以最大限度地提高学生的参与度和包容性,以及(iii)开发生态学和进化相关的职业模块,将学科概念与现实世界的应用联系起来。由于网关生物学只是学生学术旅程的开始,该项目通过在教授下一级生态学和进化课程的教师中建立教师学习社区,扩展到部门规模。这一步骤将为将改革扩大到学位课程的下一个序列奠定基础。在机构层面,该项目加强了与主要机构中心的新生伙伴关系,以在学生的大学经历早期直接将生态学和进化职业模块开发和部署到课堂中。从这项工作中出现的方法,材料和结果将被公布,并与其他西班牙裔和少数民族服务机构广泛分享。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育,扩大STEM的参与,并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标,鉴于HSIs的多样性和背景,需要创新的方法,激励机构和社区转型,促进基础研究(i)参与学生学习,(ii)关于如何有效地使STEM多样化和增加参与,以及(iii)该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,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。

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