REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research in Undergraduate STEM Education

该项目每年吸引10名本科生参加北达科他州立大学在STEM教育领域的暑期研究经验。学生们在教师导师的指导下进行研究，同时相互学习。学生们正在学习定性和定量的研究方法，科学的沟通技能，并熟悉STEM教育研究的职业道路。这些学生正在为STEM教育研究的博士水平培训做好独特的准备，该机构和其他在这个快速增长的领域设有项目的学生。该机构正在生物化学教育、生物教育、化学教育、物理教育和数学教育等学科教育研究方面增强优势。学生们从事的研究项目正在跨STEM学科进行整合，其中包括：研究本科生如何学习定量推理技能，发展系统思维，学习可视化技能，以及如何缩小不同群体在科学和数学方面的成就差距。该项目旨在增进对STEM有效教与学的知识和理解，同时为本科生提供真实的研究体验。来自STEM中代表性不足的群体的学生将成为该计划的招生目标，其中包括部落学院Sit Bull College的本科生。

This project is engaging 10 undergraduate students per year in summer research experiences at North Dakota State University in the area of STEM education. The students are conducting research under the guidance of a faculty mentor while learning from each other. The students are learning qualitative and quantitative research methods, scientific communication skills, and becoming familiar with career paths in STEM Education Research. These students are being uniquely prepared for PhD-level training in STEM education research at this institution and others with programs in this rapidly growing area. The institution is building on its strengths in discipline-based education research in biochemistry education, biology education, chemistry education, physics education and math education. The research projects that students are engaging in are integrating across STEM disciplines, and they include: studying how undergraduate students learn quantitative reasoning skills, develop systems thinking, and learn visualization skills, as well as how to close achievement gaps between various groups in science and mathematics. This project is advancing knowledge and understanding of effective teaching and learning in STEM while providing an authentic research experience to undergraduates. Students from groups underrepresented in STEM are being targeted for recruitment in this program, including undergraduates at Sitting Bull College, a Tribal College.