The Inquiry-Based Learning Regional Communities Project

在NSF改善本科生STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源(IUSE：EHR)的支持下，这个探索和设计项目旨在通过发展地区社区来支持数学探究式学习(IBL)来服务于国家利益。它还旨在从不同的机构招聘和帮助新教师在本科数学课程中实施IBL。该项目将汇集来自四个地区IBL社区的教师代表：马里兰-DC-弗吉尼亚IBL联盟、密歇根IBL联盟、中西部地区IBL社区和新英格兰IBL数学联盟。这些教师代表将共同努力，调查IBL从业者的地区社区支持教师在本科数学教育中采用、维持和促进使用IBL的潜力。这种IBL社区模式将提供教师在课堂上成功采用和维持IBL策略所需的持续支持。此外，地区性的IBL社区有可能通过在不同的IBL从业者群体之间创造协同效应来广泛影响数学教育，这些从业者反过来将在每个地区的其他教职员工、管理者、政策制定者和资助者中获得对IBL的支持。该项目的总体目标是提供有针对性的支持，以促进项目组所代表的四个地区国际语言社区的发展，并调查这些社区在每个地区的影响。期望该项目的调查将阐明哪些社区建设策略在支持教师采用、维持和促进在本科数学教育中使用IBL方面最有效。为了支持这一目标，项目组将与四个地区的领导人合作，以实现以下目标：1)建立和协调IBL社区网络；2)规划和实施地区性IBL社区研讨会；3)促进地区IBL社区同行协作活动的规划和实施；4)扩大STEM中代表性不足的群体以及全国IBL社区中代表性不足的机构类型的教职员工对地区IBL社区的参与；以及5)调查地区IBL社区为教师提供采用、维持和推广IBL所需的专业支持的能力。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区转变和改进STEM教育的努力。该奖项反映了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。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this Exploration and Design project aims to serve the national interest by developing regional communities to support inquiry-based learning (IBL) in mathematics. It also aims to recruit and help new faculty from diverse institutions implement IBL in undergraduate mathematics courses. The project will bring together faculty representatives from four regional IBL communities: the Maryland-DC-Virginia IBL Consortium, Michigan IBL Consortium, Midwest Regional IBL Community, and the New England IBL in Mathematics Consortium. These faculty representatives will work together to investigate the potential for regional communities of IBL practitioners to support faculty in adopting, sustaining, and promoting the use of IBL in undergraduate mathematics education. This IBL Communities model will provide the ongoing support that instructors need to successfully adopt and sustain IBL strategies in the classroom. Furthermore, regional IBL communities have the potential to broadly impact mathematics education by creating synergy among diverse groups of IBL practitioners who will in turn garner support for IBL among other faculty, administrators, policy makers, and funders across each region. The overarching goal of the project is to provide targeted support to nurture the growth of the four regional IBL communities represented on the project team and to investigate the impact of these communities in each region. The expectation is that the project's investigations will elucidate which community-building strategies are most effective in supporting faculty to adopt, sustain, and promote the use of IBL in undergraduate mathematics education. In support of this goal, the project team will collaborate with leaders in each of the four regions to pursue the following objectives: 1) establish and coordinate a Network of IBL Communities; 2) plan and implement regional IBL Communities workshops; 3) facilitate the planning and implementation of peer-collaboration activities in the regional IBL communities; 4) broaden participation in the regional IBL communities among faculty from groups that are underrepresented in STEM as well as among faculty from institution types that are underrepresented in the national IBL community; and 5) investigate the ability of regional IBL communities to provide faculty with the professional support they need to adopt, sustain, and promote IBL. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.