The Pursuit of Excellence: Transforming Undergraduate Science Education through Evidence-Based Practice

追求卓越：通过循证实践改变本科科学教育

• 批准号: 0919800
• 负责人: Michelle Withers
• 金额: $ 47.25万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0919800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pursuit; Excellence; Transforming; Undergraduate; Science

The West Virginia Summer Institute on Undergraduate Science Education (WVUSI) is a 4-day professional development workshop on scientific teaching for science and math faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in 4-year institutions in the state of West Virginia. Just like the successful National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Biology Education (NASI), this institute holds morning workshops that model active learning, assessment and diversity, with afternoon group work sessions where participants create teaching materials using the strategies that they practiced in the morning workshop. As a summative assessment at the end of the week, the groups present their teaching materials to the entire institute. The groups receive valuable peer evaluation on their teaching materials which they incorporate before implementing the materials into one of their classes when they return to their institutions. However unlike NASI, which only selects biology faculty teams, this project targets science and math teams and also post-doctoral fellows and graduate student. Piloting this institute in May 2008 at West Virginia University has already increased the number of faculty and graduate students across the sciences and in math that are changing the way they teach, and also volunteering to help with this institute.

西弗吉尼亚州夏季科学教育研究所（WVUSI）是一项为期4天的专业发展研讨会，讲述了科学和数学教师的科学教学，博士后研究员和西弗吉尼亚州的4年机构的研究生。就像成功的国家学院夏季学院大学生物学教育研究所（NASI）一样，该研究所举办了晨间研讨会，通过下午的小组工作会议来对积极学习，评估和多样性进行建模，参与者使用他们在早晨工作室中实践的策略来创建教材。作为本周结束时的总结性评估，小组将其教材展示给整个研究所。这些小组在他们返回机构时将材料实施到他们的班级之一之前，在将材料实施到其中一个班级之前，都会在其教材上进行有价值的同行评估。但是，与仅选择生物学教师团队的NASI不同，该项目针对科学和数学团队，以及博士后研究员和研究生。 2008年5月在西弗吉尼亚大学驾驶该研究所已经增加了整个科学的教职员工和研究生的数量，这些数学正在改变他们的教学方式，并自愿为这位研究所提供帮助。