GRC on Undergraduate Biology Education Research: Improving Diversity, Equity, and Learning

戈登大学生物学教育研究会议（GRC UBER）将为生物教育界提供为期五天的会议，使学者们聚集在一起，以促进我们对如何更好地为高等教育中的多样化学生群体服务的理解。会议将重点讨论通过传播前沿研究和经验证的模式来发展方案的能力、公平性和包容性的当代方法。会议预计将汇集来自社区的学者，他们很少互动，但在重叠的领域工作，以综合我们对如何更系统地改变本科生物学课程的理解。会议旨在培养合作和未来研究的新方向。会议期间要解决的其他问题包括国家趋势，计划层面转型的最佳实践，大规模多校区研究项目，将研究经验融入课程，与研究生教育的联系，NSF资助的研究协调网络（RCN）协调和理解不同的尝试，以提高本科生物学的公平性和有效性为所有学生提供教育仍然是许多地方、区域和国家努力的挑战。本次会议将促进下一代的问题和问题，以加快研究和实践，告知国家优先事项，并促进多样化的生物人才和包容性的发展计划。科学教育研究人员、教育工作者、研究生、博士后研究员、校园领导、科学家、教育和科学社会领导、政策领导、出版商和国家技术行业都将对此感兴趣。这次重要的全国性会议的主要目标将建立在非常成功的2015年GRC UBER的目标之上，并将：1）让与会者了解UBER方法，概念和模型的最先进方法; 2）引发关于下一代研究问题的深入讨论，这将加速UBER的发展; 3）继续建立一个共同体，在生物学教育的公平、可及性、多样性和有效性等问题上有共同的语言、承诺和概念理解。最终结果将是一个强大的综合研究结果，在研究中的差距，以及新的研究合作和方向的发展，这将导致实施更有效的战略，从而改善本科生物学学习和教学。

The Gordon Research Conference on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (GRC UBER) will provide the biology education community a five day conference to bring scholars together to advance our understanding of how to better serve the diverse student population in higher education. The conference will focus on contemporary approaches to developing capacity, equity and inclusiveness of programs by disseminating cutting edge research and proven models. The conference expects to bring together scholars from communities that rarely interact but who work in overlapping arenas to synthesize our understanding of what it takes to more systemically change undergraduate biology programs. The meeting aspires to cultivate collaborations and new directions for future research. Other issues to be addressed in conference sessions include national trends, best practices for program-level transformation, large-scale multi-campus research projects, integrating research experiences into the curriculum, connections to graduate education, and highlights from NSF-funded Research Coordination Networks (RCN) in Undergraduate Biology Education.Coordination and understanding of the disparate attempts to improve equity and efficacy of undergraduate biology education for all students continues to challenge many local, regional and national efforts. This conference will foster the next generation of questions and issues to accelerate research and practice, inform national priorities, and promote the development of diverse biological talent and inclusivity in programs. It will be of interest to science education researchers, educators, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, campus leaders, scientists, education and scientific society leaders, policy leaders, publishers, and the nation's technology industry. The major goals for this important national gathering will build on the goals of the highly successful 2015 GRC UBER and are to: 1) expose a diversity of attendees to state-of-the-art approaches to UBER methods, concepts and models; 2) engender deep discussions about the next generation of research questions that will accelerate UBER; and, 3) continue to build a community that shares a common language, commitment to, and conceptual understanding of issues related equity, access, diversity and efficacy in biology education. The end result will be a robust synthesis of research findings, identification of gaps in the research, as well as the development of new research collaborations and directions that will lead to implementation of more effective strategies that result in improved undergraduate biology learning and instruction.