Conference: Active Learning Communities in Biochemistry

该项目旨在通过增加参与本科生分子生命科学教育的教师和机构的多样性来服务于国家利益。该奖项将支持来自资源不足机构的24名教职员工参加由美国生物化学和分子生物学协会赞助的2024年发现BMB会议。教师们将参加2024年3月在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行的DiscoverBMB会议，在那里他们将参加关于分子生命科学的教学实践和教育学的会议。教师还将参加一个专业发展研讨会，重点是发展与现有NSF支持的分子生命科学社区的联系。近年来，分子生命科学教育在发展以证据为基础、以学生为中心的倡议方面取得了长足进步，这些倡议吸引了本科生，并培养了他们继续从事基于STEM的职业轨迹的热情。这个项目将使一群来自传统上资源不足的机构的教师，如社区大学和少数族裔服务机构，熟悉一系列由NSF支持的社区，这些社区代表了分子生命科学中的一系列教学倡议和循证实践，包括案例研究、基于课程的本科生研究经验和生物分子可视化素养。参与该项目的教师将能够将这些教学理念带给他们各自的学生和同事，从而加强这些机构提供STEM教育的方式。通过这样做，该项目将有助于将一组新的不同声音带入关于分子生命科学教育最佳做法的全国对话，并加强正在进行的努力，将这些做法传播给尽可能广泛的受众。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该项目也得到了NSF的RCN：UBE计划的支持，该计划寻求发展网络，以促进在本科生物学教育中使用循证实践。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the diversity of faculty and institutions participating in molecular life science education for undergraduate students. The award will support 24 faculty members from under-resourced institutions to attend the 2024 DiscoverBMB meeting sponsored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Faculty will attend the DiscoverBMB meeting in March 2024 in San Antonio, Texas where they will attend sessions on teaching practices and pedagogy in the molecular life sciences. Faculty will also participate in a professional development workshop focused on developing connections with existing NSF-supported molecular life science communities.Molecular life science education has made great strides in recent years in the development of evidence-based, student-centered initiatives that engage undergraduates and foster enthusiasm for remaining in STEM-based career trajectories. This project will enable a group of instructors from traditionally under-resourced institutions, such as community colleges and minority-serving institutions, to become familiar with a series of NSF-supported communities that represent a range of pedagogical initiatives and evidence-based practices in molecular life sciences including case studies, course-based undergraduate research experiences, and biomolecular visualization literacy. The instructors that participate in the project will be able to bring these pedagogical ideas home to their respective students and colleagues, thereby strengthening the ways in which STEM education is provided at these institutions. By doing so, this project will help to bring a new set of diverse voices into the national conversation on molecular life science educational best practices and strengthen ongoing efforts to spread these practices to as wide an audience as possible. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is also supported by NSF’s RCN:UBE Program, which seeks to develop networks to foster the use of evidence-based practices in undergraduate biology education.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.