Collaborative Research: Sharing Scientist Role Model Stories to Improve Equity and Success in Undergraduate STEM Education

合作研究：分享科学家榜样故事，以提高本科 STEM 教育的公平性和成功率

• 批准号: 2337064
• 负责人: Elizabeth Schultheis
• 金额: $ 55.59万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2337064&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Sharing; Scientist; Role

This IUSE Level 3 Engaged Student Learning project aims to serve the national interest by developing and testing classroom materials that maximize the positive effects of scientist role models in undergraduate biology. This project addresses the question, “Which elements of role model success stories are effective in improving equity and success in undergraduate STEM education?” In undergraduate classrooms today, most of the scientists featured do not reflect the diverse scientific community, nor do they match the identities of students reached by these resources. One way to combat this mismatch is to create new materials that highlight scientist role models with diverse backgrounds and identities. Featuring scientist role models in courses is a scalable way to promote the success of students with marginalized identities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Previous research has found that the impact of role models can depend on the ways their stories are told and shared in classroom materials. This work tests the theory that the success of scientist role models must feel within reach for students in order to create positive impacts. This project will develop and evaluate materials that combine scientist success stories with data literacy classroom exercises. The ultimate goal of this work is to give insight into how to effectively include scientist role models in instructional materials. It will also result in a new set of freely available, evidence-based, educational resources for undergraduate biology classrooms. The goal of this discipline-based education research study is to understand the impacts of how scientist role models are represented in curricula. This project will introduce students to scientist role model success stories using an innovative approach that combines data literacy activities with scientist profiles. Project personnel will design new teaching materials that address scientific content and data literacy objectives appropriate for introductory undergraduate biology courses and feature the research of scientist role models who identify with genders, race/ethnicities, or abilities that are historically excluded in biology. These new resources will be based on a combination of two previously established science education programs, Data Nuggets and Project Biodiversify. Using a network of introductory biology classrooms across the country, this project will expose students to activities featuring the same data literacy instruction but to different treatments that vary in information about the attainability of the role model’s success (e.g., an emphasis on prestigious accomplishments of the scientist or an emphasis on how scientists overcame barriers encountered in their pursuit of science). Likert-scale and open-response survey items will be used to measure the effects of different treatments on 1) perceived attainability of a science career, 2) motivation to pursue a career in science, 3) interest in quantitative biology, 4) identity as scientists, 5) science self-efficacy, and 6) engagement with activities across a national sample of introductory biology classrooms. This research will also result in the development and testing of publicly available curricular resources for introductory undergraduate biology courses that highlight scientists’ stories, while simultaneously linking to core content in biology and data literacy. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.Through the Engaged Student Learning track, 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.

这项IUSE 3级互动的学生学习项目旨在通过开发和测试教室材料来最大程度地发挥科学家榜样在本科生物学中的积极影响来满足国家利益。该项目解决了一个问题：“榜样成功案例的哪些要素有效地改善了本科STEM教育的公平和成功？”在当今的本科教室中，大多数科学家都不反映潜水员科学界，也不符合这些资源所触及的学生的身份。打击这种不匹配的一种方法是创建新材料，以突出具有潜水员背景和身份的科学家榜样。在课程中以科学家的榜样为特色是促进科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）中有边缘身份的学生成功的一种可扩展方式。先前的研究发现，榜样的影响取决于他们的故事在课堂材料中讲述和共享的方式。这项工作检验了这样一个理论，即科学家榜样的成功必须感受到学生的影响，以创造积极的影响。该项目将开发和评估将科学家成功案例与数据素养课堂练习相结合的材料。这项工作的最终目的是洞悉如何有效地将科学家榜样包括在教学材料中。这也将为本科生物学教室提供一套新的免费提供的，循证的教育资源。这项基于学科的教育研究的目的是了解科学家榜样在课程中的影响。该项目将使用将数据素养活动与科学家资料相结合的创新方法向学生介绍科学家榜样成功故事。项目人员将设计新的教材，以解决适合引入本科生物学课程的科学内容和数据素养目标，并采用科学家榜样的研究，这些模型与性别，种族/种族或生物学中被排除的能力相关。这些新资源将基于两个先前建立的科学教育计划，数据掘金和项目生物多样性的组合。该项目使用介绍网络的生物学课堂网络，将学生暴露于具有相同数据素养指导的活动，但在有关榜样成功的可达到的信息方面有所不同的治疗方法（例如，强调科学家的宣称成就或强调科学家对科学对科学的过度遇到的障碍的强调）。 Likert尺度和开放式响应调查项目将用于衡量不同治疗方法对1）科学职业的可实现能力，2）从事科学职业的动机，3）3）对定量生物学的兴趣，4）作为科学的认同，5）科学自我效能感和6）6）在介绍生物学教室的全国性活动中参与活动的活动。这项研究还将导致开发和测试公开可用的当前资源，以引入本科生物学课程，这些课程强调科学家的故事，同时链接到生物学和数据素养中的核心内容。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过敬业的学生学习轨道，该计划支持创建，探索和实施Promise实践和工具。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并以评估的支持为宝贵。