TUES: The Impact of the National Science Foundation on Undergraduate Education - Symposia Highlighting Curricular Innovations.

为了向nsf支持的本科STEM课程发展的创新者提供传播其材料和成果的机会，项目的主要研究者（pi）在2015年、2016年和2017年春季的美国化学会（ACS）年度全国会议上组织和召集专题讨论会，以及在这些年份的三个区域ACS会议或化学教育两年一次的会议上组织和召集专题讨论会。在研讨会上，与会者被告知各种促进本科教育的NSF项目。美国国家科学基金会有支持这个研讨会的传统，调查显示，在过去，他们一直参加得很好。在这些会议期间，未来的pi和从业者有权提出问题，并让获奖者亲自解决他们的问题。有证据表明，这些互动是在其他机构宣传循证课程改革的原因。在全国会议上，专题讨论会由两个半天的会议组成。在第一个环节中，听众将听到从各种专注于STEM本科教育的NSF项目中成功获得资助的pi的演讲。第二届会议的重点是一个具有新兴国家影响和意义的主题，其证据基础正在增加。主题包括(a)虚拟实验室，(b)在线教学，(c)基于研究的高级化学实验室，(d)将先进仪器集成到课程中，(e)与整个课程中化学相关的非传统主题，以及其他。在ACS区域会议和BCCE上的专题讨论会也涉及到项目结果的传播以及NSF项目的信息。这些简短的半天会议为那些可能觉得参加全国会议的费用是一项挑战的教员提供了信息。对每次会议的评估将揭示与会者计划适应课程创新，对当前循证教育技术有更好的理解，并对NSF资助机会有更大的认识。

In order to provide NSF-supported innovators in undergraduate STEM curriculum development with an opportunities to disseminate their materials and outcomes, principal investigators (PIs) of projects organize and convene symposia at the Annual National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in the Spring of 2015, 2016, and 2017 and at three regional ACS meetings or at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education during those same years. At the symposia attendees are informed about a variety of NSF programs that promote undergraduate education. The NSF has a tradition of supporting this symposium and surveys have shown that in the past they have been well-attended. During these meetings prospective PIs and practitioners are empowered to ask questions and have awardees address their concerns in-person. Evidence suggests that these interactions are responsible for propagating evidence-based curricular changes at other institutions.At the National Meetings, the symposia are comprised of two half-day sessions. In the first session, the audience will hear from PIs who have been successfully funded from a variety of NSF programs that focus on STEM undergraduate education. The second session focuses on a theme that has emerging national impact and significance and for which an evidence base is growing. Topics include (a) virtual laboratories, (b) online instruction, (c) research-based upper-level chemistry laboratories, (d) integration of advanced instrumentation into the curriculum, (e) non-traditional topics relating to chemistry across the curriculum, and others. Symposia at ACS regional meetings and the BCCE also involve the dissemination of project results as well as information about NSF Programs. These abbreviated half-day sessions serve to provide information to faculty who might find the expense of attending a national meeting to be a challenge. Evaluation of each meeting is expected to reveal that attendees plan to adapt curricular innovations, have a better understanding of current evidence-based educational techniques, and have greater awareness of NSF funding opportunities.