Collaborative Research: Building Capacity to Improve STEM Education through Citizen Science by Scaling Up University-Community Partnerships

合作研究：通过扩大大学与社区的合作伙伴关系，建设通过公民科学改善 STEM 教育的能力

• 批准号: 2021453
• 负责人: Caren Cooper
• 金额: $ 3.73万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2021453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Building; Capacity; Improve

This project aims to serve the national interest by enhancing STEM education outcomes for all students, including women and underrepresented minorities. Research suggests that increased persistence in STEM fields could be achieved by better connecting STEM content to broader issues in students’ communities. A feasible way to make these connections is through citizen science. Citizen science projects create opportunities for anyone to participate in collecting and analyzing data to support a scientific project. Such projects have the potential to link scientific content and process to real world problems that are relevant to students’ communities. Furthermore, these projects require students to engage in active learning, which is also known to improve student learning outcomes in STEM fields. This project is a collaboration between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and North Carolina State University. It is designed to lay the foundation for establishing University-community partnerships to establish citizen science communities that connect undergraduate STEM learning to underserved communities.Capacity building efforts focus on three domains: 1) needs assessment for scaling up the project; 2) knowledge and relationship building; and 3) information technology infrastructure. Capacity building efforts will target barriers and identify bridges needed at social, organizational, and individual levels. This change effort will focus on further developing inclusive learning environments. Specifically the project aims to enable undergraduates to more highly value their educational experiences through increased awareness of the relationship between STEM course content (i.e., knowledge, skills, and perspectives) and the issues impacting underserved communities. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过增强包括妇女和代表性不足的少数群体在内的所有学生的STEM教育成果来满足国家利益。研究表明，可以通过更好地将STEM内容与学生社区的更广泛问题联系起来来实现STEM领域的持久性。建立这些联系的可行方法是通过公民科学。公民科学项目为任何人创造了机会，可以参与收集和分析数据以支持科学项目。这样的项目有可能将科学内容和过程与与学生社区相关的现实世界问题联系起来。此外，这些项目要求学生进行积极的学习，这也已知可以改善STEM领域的学生学习成果。该项目是北卡罗来纳州农业和技术州立大学和北卡罗来纳州立大学之间的合作。它旨在为建立大学社区合作伙伴关系奠定基础，以建立公民科学社区，以将本科STEM学习与服务不足的社区联系起来。产能的建立工作重点关注三个领域：1）需要评估来扩大项目； 2）知识和关系建立； 3）信息技术基础架构。能力建设工作将针对障碍，并确定社会，组织和个人层面上所需的桥梁。这种变化工作将集中于进一步发展包容性学习环境。具体来说，该项目旨在通过增加对STEM课程内容（即知识，技能和观点）与影响不足社区的问题之间关系的认识来使本科生更加高度重视他们的教育经验。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持努力在高等教育和纪律社区的机构之间进行转化和改善STEM教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来获得的支持。