RCN-UBE Incubator: Using Citizen Science to Promote Research Experiences in Undergraduate Courses

RCN-UBE 孵化器：利用公民科学促进本科课程的研究经验

• 批准号: 1919928
• 负责人: Heather Vance-Chalcraft
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: East Carolina University
• 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: 2019-09-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919928&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Incubator; Using; Citizen

Citizen science is increasingly popular across a wide spectrum of organizations, including community groups, schools, and informal educational settings. Citizen science includes the public in the use of scientific practices to investigate phenomena. Involvement in citizen science projects has been shown to improve understanding of the scientific method and belief that one can do science, as well as demonstrate the relevance of science to peoples' homes, communities, and lives. Thus, it provides a valuable opportunity to bring authentic scientific discovery into undergraduate classrooms to produce students who are job ready in the 21st century. A lack of coordination among citizen science developers, scientists, and instructors, however, is impeding progress in the use of citizen science in higher education classrooms to a high capacity. This project will create a network of individuals involved in the development, implementation, and data end-users of citizen science projects to determine the best practices associated with using citizen science projects in higher education. The increased dialogue created through this network will improve not only undergraduate biology education, but also the generation of scientific data. The project has far reaching impacts from diversity and inclusion, professional development, higher education pedagogy, curriculum development, and even citizen science project creation/management.This RCN-Incubator will increase collaboration among diverse individuals involved with the development and use of citizen science, compile prior research showing the learning benefits of citizen science in higher education, examine known examples of how citizen science has been used in courses, and compile a list of tools needed to ease implementation of citizen science in higher education. These objectives will be met through two in-person meetings and four virtual meetings, as well as the regular use of digital communication. Final databases and syntheses will be made publicly available on websites and through a final peer-reviewed publication. The results of this Incubator grant will provide a launching point for a full RCN proposal to produce the tools necessary to ease implementation and better understand the contextual subtleties associated with the use of diverse citizen science projects in diverse courses and institution types. Having a formalized network of ambassadors for the use of citizen science in higher education should increase the number of undergraduates participating in citizen science, resulting in increased self-efficacy, content knowledge, and development of a scientific mindset. These gains will facilitate the persistence of students in STEM fields and perhaps even increased engagement of their communities in the generation of novel scientific findings.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/)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.

公民科学越来越受欢迎，包括社区群体，学校和非正式教育环境，包括社区团体，学校和非正式的教育环境。公民科学包括公众利用科学实践来调查现象。已经证明，参与公民科学项目可以提高人们对科学的科学方法和信念的理解，并证明科学与人民的房屋，社区和生活的相关性。因此，它提供了一个宝贵的机会，将真实的科学发现带入本科教室，以培养在21世纪准备工作的学生。 然而，公民科学开发商，科学家和讲师之间缺乏协调，这阻碍了在高等教育教室中使用公民科学的进步。该项目将建立一个参与公民科学项目开发​​，实施和数据最终用户的个人网络，以确定与在高等教育中使用公民科学项目相关的最佳实践。通过该网络创建的对话不仅会改善本科生物学教育，而且还可以改善科学数据的产生。 该项目与多样性和包容性，专业发展，高等教育教学，课程发展，甚至公民科学项目的创建/管理都具有很大影响高等教育科学。这些目标将通过两次面对面的会议和四次虚拟会议以及定期使用数字通信实现。最终数据库和合成将在网站上和最终的同行评审出版物公开提供。该孵化器赠款的结果将为完整的RCN提案提供一个启动点，以生成简化实施所需的工具，并更好地了解与使用各种课程和机构类型中不同公民科学项目相关的上下文微妙之处。拥有正式的大使网络用于在高等教育中使用公民科学，应增加参与公民科学的大学生的数量，从而增加自我效能感，内容知识和科学思维方式的发展。这些成就将促进学生在STEM领域的持久性，甚至可能增加其社区参与新颖的科学发现，该项目由生物学科学局，生物基础设施局，生物学基础设施局共同资助，教育和人力资源局的努力，以应对挑战的一部分，以解决挑战的一部分： （http：// visionandchange/finalReport/）该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。

项目成果

Undergraduate Student Experiences with Citizen Science Highlight Potential to Broaden Scientific Engagement

本科生的公民科学体验凸显了扩大科学参与的潜力

• DOI: 10.5334/cstp.419
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
• 作者: Johns, Brianna;Thomas, Dana;Lundgren, Lisa;Larson, Lincoln;Cooper, Caren
• 通讯作者: Cooper, Caren

Using Citizen Science to Incorporate Research into Introductory Biology Courses at Multiple Universities

利用公民科学将研究纳入多所大学的生物学入门课程

• DOI: 10.5334/cstp.424
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
• 作者: Vance-Chalcraft, Heather D.;Gates, Terry A.;Hogan, Kelly A.;Evans, Mara;Bunnell, Anne;Hurlbert, Allen H.
• 通讯作者: Hurlbert, Allen H.

Learning from the Trees: Using Project Budburst to Enhance Data Literacy and Scientific Writing Skills in an Introductory Biology Laboratory During Remote Learning

从树上学习：在远程学习期间使用 Budburst 项目提高入门生物学实验室的数据素养和科学写作技巧

• DOI: 10.5334/cstp.432
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
• 作者: Lichti, Deborah;Mosley, Pamela;Callis-Duehl, Kristine
• 通讯作者: Callis-Duehl, Kristine

Useful Biodiversity Data Were Obtained by Novice Observers Using iNaturalist During College Orientation Retreats

新手观察者在大学迎新静修期间使用 iNaturalist 获得了有用的生物多样性数据

• DOI: 10.5334/cstp.407
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
• 作者: Stevenson, Robert;Merrill, Carl;Burn, Peter
• 通讯作者: Burn, Peter

Creating Study-Specific Tools to Increase Community and Student Engagement

创建特定于研究的工具以提高社区和学生的参与度

• DOI: 10.5334/cstp.420
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
• 作者: Dunbar-Wallis, Amy;Jaeger, Deidre;Suding, Katharine;Littman, Paige;Baumgartner, Laura;Prater, Maggie;Schuenemeyer, Adalyn;Tuff, Kika;Hogstad, Amelia Brackett;Alam, Irfanul
• 通讯作者: Alam, Irfanul