Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference Proposal: Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education

关于本科生生物教育研究(Uber)的戈登研究会议(GRC)将允许一大批研究如何按比例改进本科生生物教育的学者聚集在一起。为期五天的会议将为优步社区的思想领袖提供机会，聚集在一个鼓励合作、面对面对话的环境中，讨论该领域的未来，以及社区如何应对新出现的机会、挑战和重要问题。GRC将培养下一代想法，以加速生物教育研究，告知国家优先事项，并促进循证实践的规模。为了实现这些目标，这一重要的全国性会议旨在：1)让不同的与会者接触最先进的生物学教学方法；2)就当代问题进行深入讨论，以改善本科生生物学研究；以及3)继续发展共同语言和对与在本科生物学教育中扩大实施循证实践相关的问题的概念性理解。这次会议将促进研究成果的综合，形成新的合作和研究线索，从而改善数十万注册参加不同生物学项目的学生的生物学学习。PI和咨询委员会将邀请最近在高等教育系统中担任领导职务的参与者和未来的生物教育研究人员。后者将参加附属研究生研究研讨会，这是一个为期两天的预备会议，重点是指导和支持代表下一代生物教育研究专业人员的研究生和博士后。与会者的集体努力将有助于维持和改善未来的本科生物学教育。这一奖项反映了NSF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。

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (UBER) will allow a critical mass of scholars who study how improvements in undergraduate biology education can be scaled to assemble. The five-day conference will provide opportunities for thought leaders in the UBER community to gather in an environment that encourages collaborative, face-to-face conversations about the future of the field and how the community can address emerging opportunities, challenges, and important questions.The GRC will foster the next generation of ideas for accelerating biology education research, informing national priorities, and promoting the scaling of evidence-based practices. To meet these goals, this important national gathering aims to: 1) expose a diverse assemblage of attendees to state-of-the-art approaches for teaching biology; 2) engender deep discussions about contemporary issues that will improve undergraduate biology research; and, 3) continue the development of a common language and conceptual understanding of issues related to scaling implementation of evidence-based practices in undergraduate biology education. The conference will facilitate the synthesis of research findings and the formation of new collaborations and research strands that will lead to improved biology learning for hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in diverse biology programs. The PI and advisory committee will invite participants who have recently taken on leadership positions within the higher educational system and future biology education researchers. The latter will participate in the affiliated Graduate Research Seminar, a two-day pre-meeting focused on mentoring and supporting graduate students and post-docs who represent the next generation of biology education research professionals. The collective efforts of conference attendees will help sustain and improve undergraduate biology education well into the future.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.