RCN-UBE: The Undergraduate Student Experiences with Citizen Science Network to Transform Learning and Broaden Participation in Science

RCN-UBE：本科生通过公民科学网络体验转变学习并扩大科学参与

• 批准号: 2120459
• 负责人: Heather Vance-Chalcraft
• 金额: $ 49.93万
• 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: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120459&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Undergraduate; Student; Experiences

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing student engagement with science and facilitating the persistence of students in STEM fields. In addition, the quantity and quality of scientific data will have significance to the local communities in which colleges and universities are located. These national interests will be addressed by facilitating the effective implementation of an educational approach that combines the high impact practices of student participation in research and community-engaged learning. Specifically, the proposed network will empower undergraduate instructors to use citizen science effectively with their students to create job ready, scientifically literate, critical thinkers who use science to engage constructively with their communities. Citizen science - that is, the inclusion of the public in the methods of science with the goal of advancing scientific knowledge or application, is sometimes called community science, participatory science, or public participation in scientific research. The inclusion of citizen science in higher education will improve student learning outcomes while helping instructors to maintain flexible, collaborative approaches to learning that embrace technology and acknowledge the social context in which students live.This research coordination network will create a diverse community of practice of instructors invested in using citizen science to engage undergraduate students in authentic scientific practices in both face-to-face and online settings, improve student and instructor learning outcomes, and broaden participation in science. This community of practice will make citizen science more impactful and efficient by bringing together individuals to develop and test recommended practices for the implementation and assessment of citizen science with students, facilitate the adoption of citizen science by instructors, and assist citizen science project staff in attracting instructors to use their project. Network information will be shared widely through social media, digital resources on the network website, office hour drop-in sessions via videoconferencing, and peer reviewed publications. This work will further the field of biology education research by mapping educational theoretical frameworks to the use of citizen science in higher education, developing recommendations for different aspects of the use of citizen science (e.g., for online instruction, as a means of community engaged learning), and fostering multi-institutional research collaborations to test these recommendations. As instructors at new minority serving institutions in the network increase their use of citizen science, the network activities may be particularly impactful for groups of students whose proportionate participation in science is below their representation in the overall population. 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.

该项目旨在通过增加学生参与科学的参与并促进学生在STEM领域的持久性来满足国家利益。此外，科学数据的数量和质量将对高校所在的当地社区具有重要意义。这些国家利益将通过促进有效实施一种教育方法来解决，该方法结合了学生参与研究和社区参与学习的高影响实践。具体而言，拟议的网络将使本科讲师有能力与学生有效地使用公民科学，以创建准备工作，科学识字，批判性的思想家，他们利用科学与社区建设性地互动。公民科学 - 也就是说，将公众包括在科学方法中，以推进科学知识或应用，有时被称为社区科学，参与式科学或公众参与科学研究。将公民科学纳入高等教育将改善学生的学习成果，同时帮助讲师保持学习的灵活，协作的学习方法，以拥抱技术并承认学生生活的社会环境。这项研究协调网络将投入多元化的教师社区，以创建一个在跨越的学生和在线学习中，从事公民科学的实践和在线学习的范围。这个实践社区将通过召集个人来开发和测试推荐的实践，以与学生一起实施和评估公民科学，从而使公民科学更加有效，有效，从而促进教师采用公民科学，并协助公民科学项目工作人员吸引教师使用他们的项目。网络信息将通过社交媒体，网络网站上的数字资源，通过视频会议进行的Office Hour-int-in-trop-in Consections以及同行评审的出版物进行广泛共享。这项工作将通过将教育理论框架绘制为在高等教育中使用公民科学，为使用公民科学不同方面的建议（例如，用于在线教学，作为社区参与学习的手段），并培养多机构研究协作以测试这些建议。随着网络中新少数民族服务机构的讲师增加了他们对公民科学的使用，网络活动可能对比例参与科学的学生群体的影响尤其影响，他们的科学参与低于他们在整体人群中的代表性。 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使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。