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.

这个 IUSE 3 级学生参与学习项目旨在通过开发和测试课堂材料来服务国家利益，最大限度地发挥科学家榜样在本科生生物学中的积极作用。本科生 STEM 教育的改善和公平成功？”在当今的本科生课堂中，大多数科学家都没有反映多样化的科学界，也没有与这些资源所达到的学生的身份相匹配，解决这种不匹配的一种方法是创造。新材料突出了具有不同特征的科学家榜样在课程中引入科学家榜样是促进具有边缘化身份的学生在科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域取得成功的一种可扩展的方式。这项工作测试了这样一种理论：科学家榜样的成功必须让学生感到触手可及，才能产生积极的影响。该项目将开发和评估将科学家成功故事与数据结合起来的材料。这项工作的最终目标是识字课堂练习。深入了解如何有效地将科学家角色模型纳入教学材料中。 它还将为本科生物课堂提供一套免费的、基于证据的教育资源。这项基于学科的教育研究的目标是理解。该项目将采用将数据素养活动与科学家概况相结合的创新方法，向学生介绍科学家榜样的成功故事。项目人员将设计解决科学内容和数据素养的新教材。适合本科生物学入门课程的目标，并具有对那些认同性别、种族/民族或历史上被排除在生物学之外的能力的科学家榜样的研究将基于两个先前建立的科学教育计划：数据块和生物多样性计划。该项目将在全国范围内开设生物入门课堂，让学生接触到具有相同数据素养教学的活动，但不同的处理方式在关于榜样成功的可实现性的信息上有所不同（例如，强调科学家或科学家的声望成就）重点关注科学家如何克服在追求科学过程中遇到的障碍），李克特量表和开放式调查项目将用于衡量不同治疗方法对 1）科学事业可实现性的影响，2）追求事业的动机。科学方面的兴趣，3) 对生物学的兴趣，4) 作为科学家的身份，5) 科学自我效能和定量，6) 参与全国生物学入门课堂样本的活动。 NSF IUSE：EDU 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。在参与学生学习轨道上，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。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。