The Enhanced Learning Improvements Through Evidence (ELITE) Scholars Program

这个教师发展项目建立在通过现有的两个周期通过证据增强学习改进（ELITE）学者计划获得的知识基础上，该项目是通过包括美国微生物学学会（ASM），卡内基教学促进基金会和美国科学促进协会BiosciedNet协作的伙伴关系开发和实施的。 它包括继续目前的计划，同时建立功能，使更多的参与教师从少数民族服务机构和社区学院和试点的新功能。 这些新的特点包括强调以下组成部分：有效的评价机制;有效利用和促进现有的科学教育研究文献;通过在同行评审的期刊上发表文章、在适当的专业组织年会上介绍或设计一个网站以列入新编写的材料，与广大社区分享工作成果;精英学者将参加：1）一个关于学生学习研究的住院医师研究所; 2）一个关于培养影响生物学教育改革的领导技能的住院医师讲习班; 3）一个关于培养影响生物学教育改革的领导技能的住院医师讲习班; 3）一个全国性的会议，以交流生物学教育的研究成果; 4）一个写作讲习班，以开发生物学教育研究的手稿和档案袋;和5）一个持续的学习社区，使用同步和异步的数字通信工具。 重点是教学和学习的奖学金，教师的专业责任进行严格的评估自己的教学实践，并公开分享他们的发现，以发展实践的社区。 智力上的优点是，除了介绍上述功能，该项目还包括一个刻意的努力，从这些试点项目中收集信息，不仅涉及教师出席的结果，而且还涉及研讨会的有效组成部分和所需的变化，然后使用这些信息来设计未来的方案。 该方案正在成为科学教育改革有效方法的国家模式。更广泛的影响是：被授权有效沟通有效方法的教师人数，以从微生物学本科教育文献中获益并增加文献;以及将从这些努力中受益的学生人数。该计划的影响在多个层面上是显而易见的：1）通过实践中的变化，在他们的课堂上; 2）通过出版他们的研究和发现，在扩展的教育社区的教学实践上; 3）通过他们的校园，区域和国家的指导和领导努力，在实践社区的成长上。 通过确保教师领导人来自不同的机构环境，ELITE正在接触各种各样的机构，教师和学生，提供量身定制的课程，以适应当地环境的具体需求。

This faculty development project builds on knowledge gained through two cycles of the existing Enhancing Learning Improvements through Evidence (ELITE) Scholars Program, a project developed and implemented through a partnership that includes the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association for the Advancement of Science BiosciedNet Collaborative. It includes continuation of the current program while instituting features to enable increased participation by faculty from minority serving institutions and community colleges and piloting of new features. These new features include an emphasis on the following components: effective mechanisms of evaluation; effective use of and contribution to the current literature on science education research; sharing results of efforts with the larger community through publication in peer-reviewed journals, presentation at annual meetings of appropriate professional organization or designing a web site to include newly developed materials; and developing leadership skills for those faculty interested in promoting their efforts on a larger scale than just their own courses.ELITE Scholars are participating in: 1) a residency institute on conducting research in student learning; 2) a residency workshop on developing leadership skills for influencing biology education reform; 3) a national conference to exchange research findings in biology education; 4) a writing workshop to develop manuscripts and portfolios in biology education research; and 5) an on-going learning community using synchronous and asynchronous digital communication tools. The emphasis is on the scholarship of teaching and learning, the professional responsibility of faculty to conduct rigorous evaluations of their own teaching practices and to publicly share their findings to develop a community of practice. The intellectual merit is that in addition to introducing the above features the project includes a deliberate effort to gather from these pilot projects information concerning not only the outcomes resulting from faculty attendance; but also information concerning effective components of the workshops and needed changes and then using this information to design future programs. The program is serving as a national model for an effective approach to educational reform in the sciences. The broader impacts are: the number of faculty that are being empowered to effectively communicate effective approaches to profit from and add to the literature on microbiology undergraduate education; and the number of students who will benefit from these efforts. The impact of this program is evident at multiple levels: 1) in their classrooms through change in practice; 2) on the pedagogical practices of the extended educational community through publication of their research and findings; and 3) on the growth of a community of practice through their campus, regional and national mentoring and leadership efforts. By ensuring that faculty leaders derive from a diverse range of institutional settings, ELITE is reaching a broad array of institutions, faculty and students with programs tailored to fit the specific needs of local environments.