RCN-UBE: Case-based Active Science Education (CASE) Mentoring Network

RCN-UBE：基于案例的主动科学教育 (CASE) 指导网络

• 批准号: 2316317
• 负责人: Nancy Boury
• 金额: $ 44.24万
• 依托单位: Iowa State 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: 2023-12-15 至 2028-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316317&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Case; based; Active

Effective and inclusive science education benefits the country by supporting innovation, discovery, and economic stability. Despite the known benefits of a science career, many students, including those from historically underrepresented groups, identify biology coursework as a significant hurdle to remaining in science fields. Many biology teachers are working to adopt teaching practices that better support student learning and are inclusive of all students but may lack the proper support structures and resources to make this task achievable. To address this need, the CASE Mentoring Network project focuses on providing personalized teacher mentoring, training in using and writing effective and inclusive case studies, and freely sharing authored resources. This project will also provide insight into how to leverage the strengths of these teacher-mentoring approaches to support the development of students’ science identities.A guiding principle of both the National Science Foundation and Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action is to support training a diverse, scientifically capable, and resilient workforce. First, this project will bring together individuals with diverse training and backgrounds to support personalized mentoring and train teachers in a highly effective teaching method, known as case-based learning. Second, the project will produce a broad range of freely accessible teaching resources in the form of compelling, timely, and relevant narrative case studies. These case studies will be carefully designed by integrating biology, social science, and justice in a way that is authentic to our modern world. Finally, the project will study ways to enhance connections among teachers, as well as adoption and effectiveness of these teaching methods. Products for this project include a strong personalized network to support teachers, 126 diverse case-study authors, and 60 case studies based on societally relevant scientific topics. Furthermore, the project will evaluate potential barriers to case study adoption and network effectiveness, as well as how case-based learning impacts students’ identity as early-career members of the scientific community in addition to content mastery. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for STEM Education, 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.

有效和包容性的科学教育通过支持创新、发现和经济稳定使国家受益尽管科学职业的好处众所周知，但许多学生，包括来自历史上代表性不足的群体的学生，认为生物学课程是留在科学领域的一个重大障碍。许多生物教师正在努力采用更好地支持学生学习并包容所有学生的教学实践，但可能缺乏适当的支持结构和资源来实现这一任务。为了满足这一需求，CASE 指导网络项目侧重于提供个性化教师。指导、使用培训和撰写有效且具有包容性的案例研究，并免费分享撰写的资源，该项目还将深入了解如何利用这些教师指导方法的优势来支持学生的科学身份的发展。这是美国国家科学基金会的指导原则。本科生物教育的愿景和变革：行动呼吁是支持培训一支多元化、有科学能力、有韧性的劳动力队伍。首先，该项目将把受过不同培训和背景的个人聚集在一起，以支持个性化指导并以高度培训教师。有效的教学方法，称为基于案例的学习。其次，该项目将以引人入胜、及时且相关的叙述性案例研究的形式提供广泛的免费教学资源。这些案例研究将以真实的方式整合生物学、社会科学和正义来精心设计。最后，该项目将研究加强教师之间联系的方法，以及这些教学方法的采用和有效性。该项目的产品包括支持教师的强大个性化网络、126 位不同的案例研究作者以及60 个基于社会相关科学的案例研究此外，该项目还将评估案例研究采用和网络有效性的潜在障碍，以及除了内容掌握之外，基于案例的学习如何影响学生作为科学界早期职业成员的身份。该项目由以下机构共同资助。生物科学理事会、生物基础设施部和 STEM 教育理事会、本科教育部，作为其努力解决本科生物教育愿景和变革：行动呼吁 (http://愿景与变革/最终报告/ ）。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。