Community College Undergraduate Research: Building a Model of Integration

生物科学（61）项目负责人正在设计、实施和评估一个将本科生研究融入社区大学科学课程的模式。该项目的智力价值包括为一年级的科学课程开发基于探究的教育材料（基于问题的学习，案例研究），以及为学生进行本科研究提供学分的二年级高级课程。这两个层次的课程改革都是由社区学院教师指导下的本科生研究计划推动的。新生研究项目在一年级建立，并在二年级高级课程中扩展。二年级水平的课程包括培养学生成为同侪领袖，以支持新生课程中出现的新学生专案的发展。该项目的更广泛影响包括为期一周的研讨会，该研讨会被用来培训芬格湖社区学院（FLCC）和其他两所社区学院（Genesee社区学院和Monroe社区学院）的教师使用实地和实验室方法。为了实现项目目标，FLCC正在与国家科学案例研究教学中心（NSF #0341279）和布拉多克湾猛禽研究中心合作开发项目材料和研究项目。该项目的结果正在全国生物教员会议上传播。

Biological Sciences (61)The PI is designing, implementing, and evaluating a model for integrating undergraduate research into a community college science curriculum. The intellectual merit of the project involves the development of inquiry-based educational materials (problem-based learning, case studies) for first-year science courses and a credit-bearing advanced sophomore-level course that is being used by students to conduct undergraduate research. The curriculum reform at both levels is being driven by undergraduate research initiatives developed under the mentorship of community college faculty. Novel student research projects are being established during the first year and expanded in the advanced sophomore-level course. The sophomore-level course curriculum includes training students as peer leaders to support the development of new student projects emerging from the freshman courses. The broader impacts of the project include a week-long workshop, which is being utilized to train faculty from Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) and two other community colleges (Genesee Community College and Monroe Community College) in field and laboratory methods. To achieve the project goals, FLCC is collaborating with the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, NSF #0341279) and Braddock Bay Raptor Research to develop project materials and research projects. Results of the project are being disseminated at a national conference of biology instructors.