Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference Proposal: Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education

本科生物教育研究戈登研究会议提案：实现本科教育的广泛改进

• 批准号: 1922648
• 负责人: Jose Herrera
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 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: 2019-03-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1922648&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Biology; Education; Research; Gordon

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (UBER) will allow a critical mass of scholars who study how improvements in undergraduate biology education can be scaled to assemble. The five-day conference will provide opportunities for thought leaders in the UBER community to gather in an environment that encourages collaborative, face-to-face conversations about the future of the field and how the community can address emerging opportunities, challenges, and important questions.The GRC will foster the next generation of ideas for accelerating biology education research, informing national priorities, and promoting the scaling of evidence-based practices. To meet these goals, this important national gathering aims to: 1) expose a diverse assemblage of attendees to state-of-the-art approaches for teaching biology; 2) engender deep discussions about contemporary issues that will improve undergraduate biology research; and, 3) continue the development of a common language and conceptual understanding of issues related to scaling implementation of evidence-based practices in undergraduate biology education. The conference will facilitate the synthesis of research findings and the formation of new collaborations and research strands that will lead to improved biology learning for hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in diverse biology programs. The PI and advisory committee will invite participants who have recently taken on leadership positions within the higher educational system and future biology education researchers. The latter will participate in the affiliated Graduate Research Seminar, a two-day pre-meeting focused on mentoring and supporting graduate students and post-docs who represent the next generation of biology education research professionals. The collective efforts of conference attendees will help sustain and improve undergraduate biology education well into the future.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.

戈登研究会议（GRC）关于本科生物学教育研究（UBER）将允许大量的学者研究如何将本科生物学教育的改进来缩放以组装。为期五天的会议将为Uber社区中的思想领袖提供机会，以鼓励有关该领域未来的协作，面对面的对话，以及社区如何解决新兴的机会，挑战和重要问题。GRC将促进下一代的想法，以加快生物学教育研究，为国家优先级和基于证据的实践提供信息，并促进基于证据的实践。为了实现这些目标，这一重要的全国聚会旨在：1）将与会者的各种各样的聚会揭露到最先进的生物学方法中； 2）对将改善本科生物学研究的当代问题进行深入讨论； 3）继续开发一种通用语言和对与扩大本科生物学教育中循证实践的实施相关的问题的概念理解。该会议将促进研究结果的综合以及新的合作和研究链的形成，这将导致成千上万招生的生物学计划的学生改善生物学学习。 PI和咨询委员会将邀请最近在高等教育系统和未来生物学教育研究人员中担任领导职务的参与者。后者将参加附属研究生研究研讨会，这是为期两天的前会议，着眼于指导和支持代表下一代生物学教育研究专业人员的研究生和培训。会议参与者的集体努力将有助于维持和改善未来的本科生物学教育。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的影响审查标准通过评估来支持的。