Creative Scientific Inquiry Experience: Developing Integrated Science Curriculum to Increase STEM Graduates

该项目是：通过开发基于共同主题学科主题的关联课程，提高学生在入门课程和升学课程中的成功率；通过具体的活动，支持学生的学术生涯发展、体验式学习和学科掌握技能；通过广泛的专业发展激励措施吸引教师，包括课程发布时间和支持，以生产和维持整合的内容，并在课程交付中发展教学转变；使关键组成部分制度化，以确保所开发的新方法和成功做法在项目完成后仍能持续；评估引入的活动和实践对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学生的招聘、保留、学业进步和毕业率的影响；并将这一成果广泛传播到全国其他大学。智力优势：创造性科学探究是一种创新的、相互关联的课程方法，旨在改善对STEM专业感兴趣的学生的科学教学。该项目通过提供一种将相关课程、教师专业发展和学生支持服务相结合的模式来推进STEM领域，从而显著增加主修STEM的学生人数。更广泛的影响：在STEM专业招募和留住女性和少数族裔方面，正在做出重大努力。发展成果包括学生的内容知识、解决问题的能力和对科学的态度的变化，这些变化包含了更多与主题相关的方法。参与的教师是：向科学界传播结果；通过工作坊分发课程的项目/研讨会材料；通过东密歇根大学主页的网站和计算机会议功能交换想法和数据。

This project is: improving student success rates in gateway and next in progression courses through development of linked courses based on common themed subject topics; supporting student academic career development, experiential learning and subject mastery skills through specific activities; engaging faculty through a wide range of professional development incentives including course release time and support to produce and sustain integrated content and to develop pedagogical shifts in course delivery; institutionalizing key components to ensure that the new approaches and successful practices developed are sustained beyond project completion; evaluating the effect of the introduced activities and practices on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students' recruitment, retention, academic progress, and graduation rates; and broadly disseminating the results of this effort to other universities nationally.Intellectual Merit: Creative Scientific Inquiry is an innovative, linked courses approach to improving the teaching and learning of science for students who have expressed interest in STEM majors. This project advances the STEM field by providing a model that combines linked courses, faculty professional development, and student support services to significantly increase the number of students who major in STEM.Broader Impact: Substantial efforts are being made to recruit and retain women and minorities in STEM majors. Developing outcomes include changes in students' content knowledge, problem solving ability, and attitudes toward the sciences, which encompass a more theme-linked approach. Participating faculty are: disseminating results to the scientific communities; distributing project/seminar materials for the courses through workshops; and exchanging ideas and data via a web site and computer conferencing capabilities linked through Eastern Michigan University's home page.