Collaborative Research: Developing Service-Learning Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences to Increase Student Interest in Research by Targeting Communal Goals

合作研究：开发基于服务学习课程的本科生研究经验，通过瞄准共同目标来提高学生的研究兴趣

• 批准号: 2310250
• 负责人: Kelsie Bernot
• 金额: $ 23.82万
• 依托单位: Florida Atlantic University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2310250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Developing; Service; Learning

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the diversity of the STEM workforce of the United States. To do so, the project proposes to increase students’ perception of, interest in, and motivation to pursue research careers. Research studies have shown that students, particularly women, students from historically underserved groups, and first-generation students, often value communal goals of working together and helping people. Consequently, the project proposes to create innovative undergraduate courses in which students not only perform STEM research but also apply their research work to directly serve their communities. This combination of research and service learning has the potential to transform students’ ideas about research, including the capacity of research to help people. In addition, it can also empower the communities with whom the students work.We propose to combine two high-impact practices, service learning and research experiences, to create a Service-Learning theme within a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (SL-CURE). This SL-CURE will be implemented in three different institutions: (1) a large, public, historically black university; (2) a small, private, predominantly white liberal arts college; and (3) a large, public Hispanic serving institution in the context of multiple disciplines (biology, public health, social work). Assessing the impact of the SL-CURE will be grounded in the theory of the transtheoretical stages of change from pre-contemplation (when students don’t consider research as a potential career) through preparation (when students develop scientific skills and a broader, more realistic perspective of research affordance of communal goals). The project will also contribute to the STEM education community by assessing how specific implementations of service-learning, including community-based participatory research, science communication and outreach, and mentoring, influence students’ perceptions of, interest in, and engagement in research practices not only during the course, but also one to two years beyond course completion. Disseminating this model is expected to influence existing and future CURES, which may result in a strong positive impact on retaining diverse individuals in the STEM workforce pipeline. This project is supported by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources. The IUSE: EHR program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is in the Engaged Student Learning track, through which the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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美国STEM劳动力的多样性来服务国家利益。为此，该项目的提议旨在提高学生对从事研究职业的感兴趣，兴趣和动力。研究表明，学生，尤其是女性，历史悠久的群体的学生以及第一代学生，通常重视共同努力和帮助人们的公共目标。因此，项目的建议提出创建创新的本科课程，学生不仅在其中进行STEM研究，而且还将其研究工作运用直接为社区服务。研究和服务学习的这种结合有可能改变学生对研究的想法，包括研究能力来帮助人们。此外，它还可以赋予与学生一起工作的社区的能力。我们建议在基于课程的本科研究经验（SL-CURE）中结合两种高影响力实践，服务学习和研究经验，以创建服务学习主题。 SL-CURE将在三个不同的机构中实施：（1）一所大型公立，历史上的黑人大学； （2）一所小型私人，主要是白人文科学院； （3）在多个学科（生物学，公共卫生，社会工作）的背景下，一个大型的公共西班牙裔服务机构。评估SL-CUR的影响将基于从跨理论阶段的理论（当学生不将研究视为潜在职业）通过准备（当学生发展科学技能和更广泛，更现实的社区目标研究负担的更广泛，更现实的看法））。该项目还将通过评估服务学习的特定实施，包括基于社区的参与研究，科学沟通和宣传以及心理，影响学生对研究，不仅在课程期间，而且还没有完成课程完成的研究，还影响了学生对研究实践的看法，对研究实践的影响。预计该模型将影响现有和未来的治疗方法，这可能会对保留Stem劳动力管道中的潜水员个人产生强烈的积极影响。该项目得到了NSF改善本科STEM教育计划的支持：教育和人力资源。 IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。该项目处于敬业的学生学习轨道上，该计划通过该计划支持了Promise实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。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和更广泛影响的评估评估标准来通过评估来支持的。