RCN-UBE: Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM)

为了促进科学进步，必须确保识别和消除阻碍妇女、第一代大学生以及种族和少数民族充分参与STEM的障碍。本科生STEM的公平和多样性(EDU-STEM)是一个研究协调网络，将包括来自美国各地日益增长的机构网络的高等教育教师，最初是自然科学。通过定期在线讨论、每月时事通讯、小型讲习班和更大规模的年度会议，科技教育与培训中心将首先协调参与者的努力，以构建一个数据管理平台，以便更好地了解科技教育与培训在区域和机构类型中的公平障碍。可能的障碍包括但不限于，班级规模大，包容性降低，刻板印象威胁，缺乏榜样，以及考试焦虑对代表不足的群体不利。在这些基线数据的基础上，EDU-STEM的教职员工将开发合作的课堂级实验，旨在减少在STEM取得成功的这些障碍。EDU-STEM将通过以下方式广泛影响社会：(1)确定纳入STEM的障碍；(2)实施和测试旨在增加参与度的教育干预措施；以及(3)增加从事STEM纳入问题反思性研究的教员人数。男女之间以及族裔和种族群体之间的差距是STEM教育工作者面临的挑战，但人们对充分参与STEM的障碍或教师可以克服的有针对性的战略知之甚少，以促进所有学生的学习。本科生STEM的公平和多样性(EDU-STEM)是一个研究协调网络，将使用多管齐下的方法，在基于证据的课堂体验中，跨生命科学课程整合研究和教学。具体地说，该网络将(A)协调努力，以确定将在整个网络中使用的衡量标准；(B)收集参与机构(包括研究型大学、社区学院和为少数群体服务的机构)的科学课程数据；(C)建立一个共享的数据管理工具，以促进区域和机构的比较；(D)与教育心理学家和一小群网络伙伴合作，测试和评估现场干预措施，以尽量减少有案可查的障碍；以及(E)通过在学科会议、出版物以及教育和科学及技术教育研究所的网站和通讯上的介绍来传播网络研究结果。此外，EDU-STEM将以一种可测试的领导模式让机构团队参与，以促进理科教师--在系和机构层面--如何处理循证教学的文化转变。该项目由生物科学局生物基础设施部和教育与人力资源局本科教育司共同资助，作为应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动号召》中提出的挑战的努力的一部分(http://visionandchange/finalreport/).This奖反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估被认为值得支持。

To promote the progress of science, it is necessary to ensure that barriers to full participation by women, first-generation college students, and racial and ethnic minorities in STEM are identified and removed. Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM) is a Research Coordination Network that will include higher-education faculty, initially in the natural sciences, from a growing network of institutions across the United States. Through regular online discussions, a monthly newsletter, small workshops, and larger, annual meetings, EDU-STEM will begin by coordinating the efforts of participants to construct a data-management platform to better understand barriers to equity in STEM across regional and institution types. Possible barriers include, but are not limited to, large class sizes, reduced sense of inclusion, stereotype threat, a lack of role models, and test anxiety that disadvantages underrepresented groups. Working from these baseline data, EDU-STEM faculty will develop collaborative classroom-level experiments designed to reduce these barriers to success in STEM. EDU-STEM will impact society broadly by: (1) identifying barriers to inclusion in STEM; (2) implementing and testing educational interventions designed to increase participation, and (3) increasing the number of faculty engaged in reflective research on inclusion in STEM. Gaps - between males and females, and between ethnic and racial groups - are well established as challenges for STEM educators, yet less is known about the barriers to full participation in STEM or targeted strategies that instructors can overcome, in order to promote learning for all students. Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM) is a research coordination network that will integrate research and teaching in evidence-based classroom experiences, across life sciences curricula, using a multi-pronged approach. Specifically, the network will (a) coordinate efforts to identify metrics to be used across the network; (b) collect data on science courses at participating institutions (including research universities, community colleges, and minority-serving institutions); (c) construct a shared data-management tool to promote regional and institutional comparisons; (d) test and assess, in collaboration with an educational psychologist and small cohort of network partners, in situ interventions to minimize documented barriers; and (e) disseminate network findings via presentations at disciplinary meetings, publications, and the EDU-STEM website and newsletter. Also, EDU-STEM will involve institutional teams in a testable leadership model to promote cultural shifts in how science faculty - at both the departmental and institutional levels - approach evidence-based teaching. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.