Collaborative Research: The Ciliate Genomics Consortium Model for Sustainable Teaching-Research Integration

协作研究：可持续教研一体化的纤毛虫基因组联盟模型

• 批准号: 1431876
• 负责人: Joshua Smith
• 金额: $ 1.83万
• 依托单位: Missouri State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431876&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Ciliate; Genomics; Consortium

Engaging more undergraduates in research experiences is a priority for improving science education and course-based research experiences are a promising approach to reaching larger numbers of students. The Ciliate Genomics Consortium (CGC) is a student-centered, nation-wide collaborative learning community that uses scalable functional genomics research for integration into courses in a variety of biology sub-disciplines. The CGC employs an integrative teaching and research model that combines both inquiry-driven class laboratory activities and collaborative consortium pedagogies to advance faculty research. Previously, the CGC developed modular course-based research curricula that, when adopted by the research community using the ciliate Tetrahymena, effectively engaged greater numbers of students in authentic research while advancing faculty research. This work expands the consortium by creating new or improving tested curricula to promote their broad adoption, creating more opportunities for teaching/research integration. If successful, this project provide evidence that students in classroom settings can contribute substantially to faculty and community research priorities with a variety of model organisms. To achieve project goals, the CGC will: 1) develop curricula adaptable to faculty research interests, integrate consortium activities with research community resources, and assess student learning gains; and 2) disseminate the CGC model through training workshops and assess the impact on faculty teaching and student learning. Curricula are disseminated through annual workshops and test whether research communities can foster learning communities that promote faculty adoption of classroom-based research as a high impact teaching practice. In this model, members of a research community form a professional learning community to enhance and apply best STEM teaching practices. To learn more about the effectiveness of this approach for both students and educators, the project will assess the pedagogy and report any conceptual gains this research-based curriculum offers over other instructional models, and present limitations and challenges observed. Several validated instruments will be used to measure confidence and learning gains with newly developed assessments to evaluate predicted cognitive gains. Cohorts of students at each institution are identified, not engaged in the CGC curriculum, to control for instructor and institutional factors.

在研究经验中吸引更多的大学生是改善科学教育和基于课程的研究经验的优先事项，是吸引更多学生的有前途的方法。 Ciliate Genomics Consortium（CGC）是一个以学生为中心的，全国性的合作学习社区，使用可扩展的功能基因组学研究将整合到各种生物学子学科的课程中。 CGC采用了综合教学和研究模型，该模型将探究驱动的集体实验室活动和协作联盟教学法结合起来，以推进教师研究。此前，CGC开发了基于模块化课程的研究课程，该课程被研究界采用纤毛四氢菌（Ciliate Tetrahymena），在进行前进的教师研究的同时，有效地使更多的学生参与了真实的研究。 这项工作通过创建新的或改进经过测试的课程以促进其广泛采用，创造更多的教学/研究融合机会，从而扩大了财团。 如果成功的话，该项目提供了证据表明，课堂环境中的学生可以通过各种模型生物为教师和社区研究重点做出重大贡献。为了实现项目目标，CGC将：1）开发适合教师研究兴趣的课程，将财团活动与研究社区资源相结合，并评估学生的学习成绩； 2）通过培训研讨会来传播CGC模型，并评估对教师教学和学生学习的影响。 课程通过年度研讨会来传播，并测试研究社区是否可以培养学习社区，以促进教师采用基于课堂的研究作为高影响力教学实践。在此模型中，研究社区的成员组成了一个专业的学习社区，以增强和应用最佳的STEM教学实践。为了进一步了解这种方法对学生和教育工作者的有效性，该项目将评估教学法，并报告该基于研究的课程对其他教学模型的概念收益，以及观察到的当前局限性和挑战。 通过新开发的评估，将使用几种经过验证的工具来衡量信心和学习收益，以评估预测的认知收益。确定每个机构的学生人群，而不是从事CGC课程，以控制教师和机构因素。