[CCoE Notice] REMINDER-March 23: NSM Faculty Development Workshop (RSVP by March 20)

[Hutchinson, Inez A]

Sent on behalf of Donna Pattison, Ph.D.

Dear NSM Faculty:

An NSM Faculty Development Workshop is scheduled for Friday, March 23, from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm in McElhinney Hall, Room 116.  Lunch will be provided; please arrive a few minutes early.  Please RSVP by March 20 using the link below.  A flyer is attached.


Topic: “Making the Most of Course-Based Research Experiences (CRE): a sequence of CREs”

Presenter:
Dr. Nancy Stamp
Director of Freshman Research Immersion and Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Binghamton University-SUNY

Research on CRE (course-based undergraduate research experience) suggests that it can be effective for engaging and training undergraduates in STEM, especially when made available to first-year students. However, establishing such courses, in particular, a sequence of them requires considerable planning. We established a Freshmen Research Immersion (FRI), a sequence of three CUREs that starts with fall freshmen. The first course focuses on identifying good research projects, reading the scientific literature, learning how to work in teams, and other generic issues. The second course introduces students to equipment, protocols, and experimental design in their chosen research track, such that they complete a research proposal by the end of the term. In the third course, students complete the research project that they proposed the previous spring. We have nine research tracks that span the STEM disciplines (life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and engineering). Each track has 30 freshmen, which results in 270 freshmen and 220 sophomores in FRI each year. Begun in 2014, already the FRI program has resulted in 25 student team research posters at regional/national conferences, with 105 student coauthors. Assessment of our CREs includes standardized rubrics applied to students’ research proposal, report and poster; surveys of students’ perspective on their gains; and students’ reflection essays on their professional and personal growth. We will share results of student outcomes and lessons we have learned in implementing this program.

RSVP by March 20:www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-making<http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FADAF28A5FB6-making>

I hope you will join us on March 23!

Donna Pattison

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Donna L. Pattison, PhD
Instructional Professor
Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Affairs
University of Houston
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
713-743-2642



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