Redo college intro science

Asai, David J.; Alberts, Bruce; Coffey, Janet E.

doi:10.1126/science.abq1184

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“…, 2019 ; Seymour and Hunter, 2019 ), results in a national workforce that is weaker and less diverse than it otherwise could be. This challenging problem demands innovative solutions, as reflected by persistent calls from policy makers, researchers, and funding agencies to find ways to improve college students’ experiences and promote diversity in STEM (e.g., President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012 ; Asai et al. , 2022 ).…”

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Peer-Modeled Mindsets: An Approach to Customizing Life Sciences Studying Interventions

Hecht

Latham

Buskirk

et al. 2022

LSE

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Mindset interventions can promote diversity in STEM but require customization. A customization protocol was developed and used to create a “peer-modeled” mindset intervention for introductory biology. Underrepresented students randomly assigned to receive the intervention reported better psychological experiences and earned more “A’s” in the class than those assigned to a control condition.

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Peer-Modeled Mindsets: An Approach to Customizing Life Sciences Studying Interventions

Hecht

Latham

Buskirk

et al. 2022

LSE

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“…Scientists and educators recognize that changes are needed for the future of STEM instruction and training to best prepare the next generation of scientists Page 11 of 15 Kleinschmit et al International Journal of STEM Education (2023) 10:16 (Alberts, 2022;Asai et al, 2022). In particular, the adoption of active learning practices in STEM classrooms has been demonstrated to improve student learning in general (Freeman et al, 2014) and the outcomes for underrepresented minorities in particular (Austin, 2011;Fairweather, 2008;Theobald et al, 2020).…”

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Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development

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The preparation of future scientists, the technical workforce, and informed citizens will require continued transformation to the ways we approach STEM teaching and learning. Undergraduate STEM education is rapidly emerging as a focus of faculty scholarship, but new models for reform need to be developed and tested to accelerate changes in teaching practices. This paper describes a flexible, participant-driven, multi-phase, collaborative approach to developing open educational resources (OERs) that leverages linked communities of practice (CoPs). Equally valuable, our framework for development, adaptation, dissemination, and validation of OERs provides a platform for faculty professional development and sustained support through cooperative mentoring. The three linked CoPs in the framework include incubators for the creation of initial OERs, Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) for the implementation and adaptation of OERs for classroom use, and Education Research Communities to assess the effectiveness of the OERs. The CoPs create numerous benefits for participating faculty, including the ability to collaborate in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through scholarly publication of OERs and their assessment; ongoing mentorship in implementation of OERs in the classroom; and development of educational leadership skills and experience. Thus, the three CoPs synergize with one another to build and sustain capacity through providing vetted, up-to-date educational resources, as well as ongoing training and support for faculty. While we developed this approach for the rapidly changing field of bioinformatics, the linked CoP framework will have utility for STEM education reform more broadly and disciplines beyond STEM.

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“…Introductory Biology for Majors is one of the most consequential courses in undergraduate STEM education, with annual enrollments of several hundred thousand students per year in the United States alone (Asai et al, 2022). To support instructors who want to implement backward design in their course sequence, we facilitated the development of a set of lesson-level LOs that were then evaluated by over 700 instructors from a wide array of institution types.…”

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Nationally endorsed learning objectives to improve course design in introductory biology

Hennessey,

Freeman

2023

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Introductory biology for majors is one of the most consequential courses in STEM, with annual enrollments of several hundred thousand students in the United States alone. To support increased student success and meet current and projected needs for qualified STEM professionals, it will be crucial to redesign majors biology by using explicit learning objectives (LOs) that can be aligned with assessments and active learning exercises. When a course is designed in this way, students have opportunities for the practice and support they need to learn, and instructors can collect the evidence they need to evaluate whether students have mastered key concepts and skills. Following an iterative process of review, revision, and evaluation, which included input from over 800 biology instructors around the country, we produced a nationally endorsed set of lesson-level LOs for a year-long introductory biology for majors course. These LOs are granular enough to support individual class sessions and provide instructors with a framework for course design that is directly connected to the broad themes inVision and Changeand the general statements in the BioCore and BioSkills Guides. Instructors can implement backward course design by aligning these community endorsed LOs with daily and weekly learning activities and with formative and summative assessments.

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Redo college intro science

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Peer-Modeled Mindsets: An Approach to Customizing Life Sciences Studying Interventions

Peer-Modeled Mindsets: An Approach to Customizing Life Sciences Studying Interventions

Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development

Nationally endorsed learning objectives to improve course design in introductory biology

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