FIRST III - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching: Developing the Scholarship of Scientific Teaching

生物科学（61）这一综合性项目建立在第一二期“通过野外研究站改革科学教学学院”的成果和产品的基础上。它正在设计一种工具，可以作为该项目现有数据的存储库，以及将由它和其他资助项目生成的数据的存储库。通过建立本科科学课程评估数据库，该项目提高了教师、博士后和研究生实施科学教学的能力，并为科学教学做出贡献。智力价值：正在开发的评估库记录了教师专业发展的成果，包括对学生成果的评估。所有生物学领域的教师都可以从数据库中输入和检索数据，以探索本科生物学教育中有效的教与学问题。该项目利用来自大量学生和班级的评估数据，促进了进行跨站点研究的困难过程。知识库是教学和研究之间的桥梁，使教师成为科学教学学术的专家用户和贡献者。评估和评估数据的共同储存库的存在，一个可供各种教师使用的储存库，促进了从事本科科学教育改革的教师的努力，使他们的努力得到全国和机构内的认可、评估和奖励。更广泛的影响：知识库的使用有望提高对学生学习评估的重要性的认识，以响应教学的变化，并有助于开发用于探索科学领域本科学习的测试机制。随着科学家们使用知识库来记录和探索学生在科学方面的成就，关于教学和学生学习的学术工作应该在质量、数量和严谨性方面得到提高。对教师专业发展努力的研究也将受益于增强的能力，包括关于学生在特定STEM学科学习的学术工作。与国家STEP数字图书馆（NSDA）和国家生态分析与综合中心（NCEAS）的生物科学网（BEN）站点的协调确保了广泛的传播。

Biological Science (61) This comprehensive project builds on the results and products from FIRST II, Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching through Field Stations. It is designing the instrument that can serve as the repository for existing data from this project and for data that will be generated by it and other funded projects. By establishing a repository for assessment data from undergraduate science courses the project develops faculty, postdoctoral and graduate students' capacity to implement scientific teaching and contribute to the scholarship of scientific teaching.Intellectual Merit: The assessment repository being developed documents outcomes of faculty professional development including assessment of student outcomes. Faculty from all fields of biology can input and retrieve data from the repository to explore questions about effective teaching and learning in undergraduate biology education. This project facilitates the difficult process of conducting cross-site studies using assessment data from large numbers of students and classes. The repository is the bridge between teaching and research that enables faculty to become both expert users of and contributors to the scholarship of scientific teaching. Existence of a common repository for evaluation and assessment data, one usable by a variety of faculty, facilitates the efforts of faculty engaged in reforms in undergraduate science education to have their efforts recognized, evaluated, and rewarded nationally and within their institutions. Broader Impact: Use of the repository promises to lead to increased appreciation for the importance of assessment of student learning in response to changes in instruction and can help in development of tested mechanisms for exploring undergraduate learning in the sciences. As scientists use the repository to document and explore student achievement in science, scholarly work about teaching and student learning should increase in quality, quantity and rigor. Studies of efforts in faculty professional development will also benefit from an enhanced ability to include scholarly work about student learning in specific STEM disciplines. Coordination with the BioSciEd Net (BEN) site of the National STEP Digital Library (NSDA) and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) ensures broad dissemination.