Conference: Building Departmental Capacity for Best Practices in Undergraduate Life Sciences Education in the Southeastern US; June, 2019; North Carolina A&T State University

会议：美国东南部本科生命科学教育最佳实践部门能力建设；

• 批准号: 1850631
• 负责人: Christopher Finelli
• 金额: $ 9.96万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1850631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Building; Departmental; Capacity; Best

The Southeastern US consistently lags other regions in educational attainment and economic performance, highlighting the need for dissemination and implementation of best practices in teaching and learning at all levels. The 2011 AAAS publication, "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action," provides comprehensive guidelines for content, skills, and teaching practices that are still considered the "gold standard" for undergraduate life sciences education. The Southeast Region of the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (SERP) will host a professional development institute on the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University in summer 2019, with a follow-up event hosted in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in spring 2020. The Institute will engage sixteen teams in a virtuous cycle of assessment and reforms based on the recommendations in "Vision and Change." Teams will include representatives from all institution types, from community colleges to research-intensive universities, as well as significant representation of Minority Serving Institutions. Institutional teams will be comprised of both faculty and administrators to ensure representation of both grassroots and institutional stakeholders.The project has two primary objectives: (1) to develop a network of life sciences departments engaged in a cycle of continual improvement; and (2) to conduct an evidence-based assessment of a systems model for undergraduate life sciences reform. The Institute will employ a strategy of shared-visioning, which requires substantial communication, learning, and collaboration among all stakeholders. The agenda is designed to help teams build a common language to enable discussion of important issues (e.g., course-embedded research, metacognition, etc.), identify shared priorities for improvement at the level of faculty, department, and institution, and draft an action plan for short-term and long-term reform efforts. By focusing on department-level transformation, the project builds capacity for long-term systemic changes to educational practice and improved student learning. Because public dissemination and formative assessment of these efforts are critical to validating team efforts and as providing accountability for institutional teams, a follow-up event will be held in conjunction with the 2020 meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. All teams will make a public poster presentation of their action plan, efforts to date, and initial assessment results. A separate workshop during the ASB meeting will be used to collect more detailed assessment data from each team, as well as provide time for inter-team sharing of successes and challenges. Finally, a public workshop will be conducted to introduce the general ASB membership to the recommendations of "Vision and Change."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.

美国东南部地区在教育程度和经济表现方面始终落后于其他地区，这凸显了在各个层面传播和实施最佳教学实践的必要性。 2011 年美国科学促进会 (AAAS) 出版物《本科生物教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》提供了内容、技能和教学实践的综合指南，这些指南至今仍被视为本科生命科学教育的“黄金标准”。本科生命科学教育合作伙伴关系 (SERP) 东南地区将于 2019 年夏季在北卡罗莱纳州农业技术大学校园举办专业发展学院，并在协会年会期间举办后续活动东南生物学家将于 2020 年春季举行。研究所将根据“愿景与变革”中的建议，让 16 个团队参与评估和改革的良性循环。团队将包括来自社区学院到研究密集型大学等所有机构类型的代表，以及少数族裔服务机构的重要代表。机构团队将由教职员工和管理人员组成，以确保基层和机构利益相关者的代表性。该项目有两个主要目标：（1）建立一个参与持续改进循环的生命科学部门网络； (2) 对本科生生命科学改革的系统模型进行循证评估。该研究所将采用共同愿景战略，这需要所有利益相关者之间进行大量沟通、学习和合作。该议程旨在帮助团队建立共同语言，以便讨论重要问题（例如，课程嵌入式研究、元认知等），确定教师、部门和机构层面的共同改进优先事项，并起草一份短期和长期改革努力的行动计划。通过关注院系层面的转型，该项目培养了对教育实践进行长期系统性变革和改善学生学习的能力。由于对这些努力的公开传播和形成性评估对于验证团队努力以及为机构团队提供问责制至关重要，因此后续活动将与东南生物学家协会 2020 年会议同时举行。所有团队都将公开海报展示他们的行动计划、迄今为止的努力和初步评估结果。 ASB 会议期间将举行单独的研讨会，从每个团队收集更详细的评估数据，并为团队间分享成功和挑战提供时间。最后，将举办一次公共研讨会，向普通 ASB 会员介绍“愿景与变革”的建议。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。