Community College Biology Education Research Meeting

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和德安扎社区学院将解决全国社区学院缺乏学科教育研究的问题，特别是生物教育研究（BER）。该项目小组将召开一次BER、社区大学生物学教学、行动研究和基于社区的参与性研究方面的国家领导人会议。会议将描述社区学院BER的状况，包括研究了哪些问题或主题以及存在哪些差距。此外，它将产生一个计划，以确定限制和启示社区学院教师遇到时，进行和出版生物教育（生物教育）的研究和计划，以确定支持战略，将提高教师进行和出版社区学院生物教育研究的数量。最后，会议将形成一个有兴趣进行或参与社区学院生物教育研究的个人网络。与会者将代表不同的理论，实践和机构观点，对在社区学院培养BER非常重要，并将包括期刊编辑，BER学者和社区学院教师。会议还将包括各种研究传统的专家，以确保正在研究的社区的积极参与和公平考虑社区利益。该项目将有三个成果：1）将提交在同行评审期刊上发表的会议报告和一套补充的社论和信件，以引起其他STEM和Bio-Ed期刊编辑对报告的关注; 2）一套合作研究项目的计划，以确定社区学院教师进行和出版BER的因素;以及3）一个致力于在社区学院培养BER并实现紧急会议目标的个人网络。该会议还将作为一个基础，产生基于证据的战略，以解决缺乏BER在社区学院的水平。

The University of Texas at Austin and De Anza Community College will be addressing the dearth of discipline-based education research, particularly Biology Education Research (BER), at the nation's community colleges. The project team will convene a meeting of national leaders in BER, community college biology teaching, action research, and community-based participatory research. The meeting will characterize the state of community college BER, including what issues or topics have been studied and where gaps exist. Further, it will generate a plan to identify constraints and affordances community college faculty encounter when conducting and publishing Biology Education (Bio-Ed) studies and a plan to identify support strategies that will enhance the number of faculty conducting and publishing community college Bio-Ed studies. Finally, the meeting will nucleate a network of individuals interested in conducting or participating in community college Bio-Ed studies.Participants will represent diverse theoretical, practical, and institutional perspectives important to fostering BER in community colleges and will include journal editors, BER scholars, and community college faculty. The meeting will also include experts in the variety of research traditions that ensure active involvement of the community being studied and equitable consideration of community interests. The project will have three outcomes: 1) a meeting report that will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and a complementary set of editorials and letters to editors of other STEM- and Bio-Ed journals to draw attention to the report; 2) a set of plans for a collaborative research project to identify factors that enable or limit community college faculty in conducting and publishing BER; and 3) a network of individuals dedicated to fostering BER in community colleges and accomplishing emergent meeting goals. The meeting will also serve as a foundation for generating evidence-based strategies to address the dearth of BER at the community college level.