Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER)

这个项目，科学教育新的公民参与和责任（SENCER）是建立在一个同名的CCLI国家传播项目，开始于2001年。 通过对SENCER前五年的独立评估，SENCER的第二阶段版本正在开展一系列全面的活动，以帮助STEM教师团队将全国验证的本科STEM材料和教育实践带到新校园应用中。 和以前一样，SENCER致力于招募和授权许多新的教师和学术领袖，以改善本科STEM教育，加强校友教师的专业知识，并扩大不断增长的实践社区，将STEM学习与公民问题的探索联系起来。 此外，SENCER正在建立新的系统，以深化和维持SENCER方法的影响，并完成和发布一系列强有力的评估，评估和研究项目的结果。目标：SENCER通过将科学原理的发现和科学思维的发展与复杂的社会问题联系起来来改善科学教育。通过发展教师的专业知识，教学“到”基础科学和数学“通过”公民的关注，SENCER是扩大学习的影响，整个课程和社区。使用材料，评估工具，并在SENCER项目开发的研究，SENCER教师正在设计课程项目，（1）让更多的学生感兴趣，并参与学习STEM课程，（2）帮助学生连接STEM学习到他们的其他研究，和（3）加强学生对科学的理解和负责任的工作和公民的能力。活动：SENCER通过专注于加强教师专业知识，STEM社区建设以及为STEM知识库做出贡献来实现这些目标。具体而言，SENCER的目标是：（1）为来自75个新机构的团队提供全面培训和后续行动，（2）更加重视增加早期注册SENCER课程的人数（因为我们的研究表明，这增加了STEM课程的高级学习），（3）创建更多的国家场所来传播成熟校园项目的成果，以及（4）开发新的资源，并创造更广泛的访问和传播现有资源的机会。为了扩大SENCER改革的规模并维持其影响，该项目是：（1）指定100名SENCER领导研究员，（2）创建五个区域SENCER创新中心。为了促进STEM教育知识库，该项目（1）对SENCER评价和评估结果进行荟萃分析，（2）增加SENCER-SALG的使用频率和发生率（在线评估工具），（3）建立一个致力于扩大课堂学习评估的SENCER教师联盟，（4）将卡耐基基金会的“教学奖学金”模式应用于一套成熟的终结性评估研究项目;（5）计划出版评估和评估结果和资源的年度汇编。智力优势：评估证据表明，SENCER方法是改善STEM教育的有效战略，特别是在妇女和非专业人员中实现科学素养的提高。一个小但重要的学生群体表现出极大的兴趣，在追求先进的科学研究后，他们在SENCER课程注册。SENCER方法提供了一种策略，以增加STEM课程的入学率，并吸引学生从事需要STEM专业知识的职业。SENCER支持校友社区，将SENCER方法扩展到新的应用程序，并改进和更新改革。该社区的工作是以经验证的评估工具，实地测试的学习材料和同行指导活动的形式为STEM教育研究和知识库做出贡献。更广泛的影响：SENCER的好处将扩大到更多样化的机构，特别是社区学院。校园的影响包括加强跨学科的联系，鼓励职前教师教育的科学，并刺激学生的参与。基于社区的研究和外联活动扩大了对有需要的人和社区的影响。由于SENCER课程侧重于关键的公民问题，对学生和教师的长期影响达到了我们在民主中面临的核心问题。

This project, Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) is building on an identically-named CCLI National Dissemination project that began in 2001. Informed by an independent evaluation of the first five years of SENCER, this second stage version of SENCER is undertaking a comprehensive set of activities to help teams of STEM faculty bring nationally-validated undergraduate STEM materials and educational practices to new campus applications. As before, SENCER is engaged in recruiting and empowering numerous new faculty and academic leaders to improve undergraduate STEM education, strengthening alumni faculty expertise, and expanding a growing community of practice that links STEM learning to the exploration of civic issues. In addition, SENCER is building new systems to deepen and sustain the impact of the SENCER approach and to complete and publish the results of a set of robust evaluation, assessment, and research projects. Goals: SENCER improves science education by linking the discovery of scientific principles and the development of scientific thinking to engagement with complex social problems. By developing faculty expertise in teaching "to" basic science and mathematics "through" civic concerns, SENCER is extending the impact of learning across the curriculum and into the community. Using materials, assessment instruments, and research developed in the SENCER project, SENCER faculty are designing curricular projects that (1) get more students interested and engaged in learning in STEM courses, (2) help students connect STEM learning to their other studies, and (3) strengthen students' understanding of science and their capacity for responsible work and citizenship. Activities: SENCER is pursuing these goals by focusing on strengthening faculty expertise, STEM community-building, and making contributions to the STEM knowledge base. Specifically, SENCER goals are: (1) to provide comprehensive training for, and follow-up with, teams from 75 new institutions, (2) to bring increased attention to increasing early enrollment in SENCER courses (because our research shows this increases advanced study in STEM courses), (3) to create additional national venues for disseminating the results of mature campus projects, and (4) to develop new resources and create broader access to, and dissemination of, existing resources. To expand the scale and sustain the impact of SENCER reforms, this project is: (1) designating 100 SENCER Leadership Fellows and (2) creating five regional SENCER Centers for Innovation. To contribute to the STEM education knowledge base, the project is (1) conducting a meta-analysis of the SENCER evaluation and assessment results, (2) increasing the frequency and incidence of the use of the SENCER-SALG (an online assessment tool), (3) establishing a consortium of SENCER faculty committed to expanding in-class assessments for learning, (4) applying the Carnegie Foundation's "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" model to a suite of mature summative evaluation research projects, and (5) planning to publish an annual compendium of assessment and evaluation results and resources. Intellectual Merit: Evaluation evidence establishes that the SENCER approach is an effective strategy for improving STEM education and, in particular, achieving gains in science literacy among women and non-majors. A small but significant cohort of students show greatly increased interest in pursuing advanced science study following their enrollment in SENCER courses. The SENCER approach offers a strategy to increase enrollment in STEM courses and attract students to careers that require STEM expertise. SENCER supports an alumni community that is extending the SENCER approach to new applications, and refining and renewing reforms. The work of this community is making contributions to the STEM-education research and knowledge base in the form of validated assessment instruments, field-tested learning materials, and peer-mentoring activities. Broader Impacts: SENCER benefits will be extended to a more diverse set of institutions, especially community colleges. Campus impacts include strengthening interdisciplinary connections, encouraging pre-service teacher education in the sciences, and stimulating student engagement. Community-based research and outreach activities extend the impacts to people and communities in need. Because SENCER courses focus on critical civic questions, the intended long-range impact for students and faculty reaches the core questions we face in our democracy.