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.

该项目旨在通过提高所有学生（包括女性和代表性不足的少数群体）的 STEM 教育成果来服务国家利益。 研究表明，通过将 STEM 内容与学生社区中更广泛的问题更好地联系起来，可以提高 STEM 领域的持久性。公民科学项目为任何人参与收集和分析数据以支持科学项目创造了机会，此类项目有可能将科学内容和过程与与学生相关的现实世界问题联系起来。此外，这些项目要求学生参与社区。主动学习，也被认为可以提高学生在 STEM 领域的学习成果。该项目是北卡罗莱纳州农业技术州立大学和北卡罗莱纳州立大学之间的合作项目，旨在为建立大学与社区的伙伴关系奠定基础。将本科生 STEM 学习与服务不足的社区联系起来的公民科学社区。能力建设工作重点关注三个领域：1）扩大项目规模的需求评估；2）知识和关系建设；3）信息技术基础设施。并确定所需的桥梁具体而言，该项目旨在通过提高对 STEM 课程内容（即知识、知识和技能）之间关系的认识，使本科生更加重视他们的教育经历。 NSF IUSE：EHR 计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持转型和改进的努力。跨机构的 STEM 教育该奖项反映了 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，被认为值得支持。