Collaborative Research: IUSE EHR - Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Instruction

合作研究：IUSE EHR - 本科生 STEM 教学中的包容性学习和教学

• 批准号: 1821510
• 负责人: Sarah Hokanson
• 金额: $ 35.87万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; IUSE; EHR; Inclusive

The economic prosperity of the United States relies on progress in science, the advancement of national health initiatives, and adaptation to an increasingly technical economy. This prosperity in turn relies on a talented workforce with the ability to nimbly address new challenges and develop innovative technologies. Colleges and universities can best prepare this future workforce by ensuring that educational environments are effective for a diverse range of students. This project focuses on the design and dissemination of faculty development materials designed to enable faculty members to create more inclusive learning environments for their students. Specifically, the project will incorporate research-based practices that enable students to develop further senses of self-efficacy, identity, persistence, and motivation to persist in STEM fields of study. The project is intended to address persistent gaps in the rates at which women and members of underrepresented groups persist in STEM fields of study. Closing these gaps would lead to greater degree attainment and workforce entry. The product of this work will be a comprehensive virtual and in-person professional development program at a national scale that will prepare future and early career faculty to teach inclusively. The project will be led by Northwestern University in partnership with Boston University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Georgia, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Des Moines Area Community College. Project leaders will work with the University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Players, a group that uses theatrical and improvisational dramatization in the service of improved learning and teaching. The materials will be designed to enable faculty members to rethink curricular choices, update their teaching methods, activities, and assessments, understand how aspects of their own identities and those of their students may affect learning, and recognize ways in which position and other issues play out in learning environments. Building on the success of two prior Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning online courses in STEM teaching and their affiliated local learning communities, the project aims to build and sustain a diverse network of institutions through learning communities of trained facilitators to advance inclusive learning and teaching on their campuses. The project has the potential to prepare 500 current faculty and 4,000 PhDs and postdoctoral scholars to apply inclusive teaching practices that would positively influence the learning experiences of more than 25,000 STEM students nationally.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.

美国的经济繁荣依赖于科学的进步，国家卫生计划的发展以及对越来越多的技术经济的适应。反过来，这种繁荣依靠才华横溢的劳动力，能够灵活应对新的挑战并发展创新的技术。大学和大学可以通过确保教育环境对各种学生有效，可以最好地为这一未来的劳动力做好准备。 该项目着重于教师开发材料的设计和传播，旨在使教职员工能够为学生创造更具包容性的学习环境。 具体而言，该项目将结合基于研究的实践，使学生能够发展出自我效能感，身份，持久性和动机的进一步感觉，以坚持在STEM研究领域。 该项目旨在解决妇女和代表性不足群体的成员在STEM研究领域的持续差距。 缩小这些差距将导致更高的学位和劳动力进入。 这项工作的产物将是一项全面的虚拟和面对面专业发展计划，以全国范围的规模，将准备未来和早期职业教师，以包括教学。该项目将由西北大学与波士顿大学，威斯康星大学麦迪逊大学，密歇根大学安阿伯大学，佐治亚大学，圣路易斯华盛顿大学和得梅因地区社区学院合作。项目负责人将与密歇根大学学习和教学参与者研究中心合作，该小组使用戏剧和即兴创作的戏剧化来改善学习和教学。 这些材料将旨在使教职员工能够重新考虑课程选择，更新其教学方法，活动和评估，了解其身份的各个方面以及学生的各个方面如何影响学习，并认识到在学习环境中发挥地位和其他问题的方式。 基于两个先前的研究，教学和学习在STEM教学及其附属当地学习社区的在线课程的成功中心的成功，该项目旨在通过学习培训的促进者的学习社区来建立和维持多样化的机构网络，以推动包容性学习和在其校园内的教学。 该项目有可能准备500名现任教职员工和4,000名博士学位和博士后学者，以采用包容性的教学实践，这将对全国25,000多名STEM学生的学习经历产生积极影响。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的知识分子功能和广泛的影响来审查NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得通过评估的支持。