The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. STEM Education
Volume 9 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1442318
Titles: An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC) Model to Facilitate Undergraduate Science Education Reform
Provisionally accepted- 1 University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
- 2 Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- 3 Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
- 4 Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
- 5 Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
- 6 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- 7 Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, United States
- 8 Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Indiana, United States
- 9 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States
- 10 Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States
- 11 LeTourneau University, Longview, Texas, United States
- 12 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
- 13 Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, United States
- 14 Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York, United States
- 15 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
- 16 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- 17 College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- 18 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- 19 University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- 20 University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, United States
- 21 University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, United States
- 22 Rocky Vista University, Parker, Colorado, United States
- 23 Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- 24 Indian River State College, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States
- 25 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
- 26 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, United States
- 27 National University of Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
- 28 La Sierra University, Riverside, California, United States
- 29 Saint Leo University, St. Leo, Florida, United States
- 30 Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, United States
- 31 Neumann University, Aston Township, Pennsylvania, United States
- 32 University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana, United States
- 33 Oregon Coast Community College, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
- 34 Durham Technical Community College, Durham, North Carolina, United States
- 35 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States
- 36 Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States
- 37 South Texas College, McAllen, Texas, United States
- 38 New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York, United States
- 39 Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York, New York, United States
- 40 Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, United States
- 41 University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States
- 42 University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
- 43 Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland, United States
- 44 University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
- 45 Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, Georgia, United States
- 46 University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- 47 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
- 48 University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, United States
- 49 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
- 50 Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
- 51 Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- 52 University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
- 53 Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, Virginia, United States
- 54 Harford Community College, Bel-Air, California, United States
- 55 La Salle University, Philadelphia, United States
- 56 University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, United States
- 57 Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States
- 58 State University of New York at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York, United States
- 59 University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- 60 Thiel College, Greenville, South Carolina, United States
- 61 Texas Southmost College (TSC), Brownsville, Texas, United States
- 62 Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, New Hampshire, United States
- 63 Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Illinois, United States
- 64 Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois, United States
- 65 Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States
- 66 Ouachita Baptist Universityy, Arkadelphia, United States
- 67 University of South Florida, Tampa, United States
- 68 Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, United States
- 69 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
- 70 Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington, United States
- 71 Université Paris-Saclay, Saint Aubin, France
- 72 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- 73 Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, United States
- 74 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- 75 Penn State Schuylkill, Schuylkill, United States
- 76 Salem State University, Salem, Oregon, United States
- 77 Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
- 78 Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
- 79 Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, United States
- 80 University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, Puerto Rico
- 81 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
- 82 Alliance University, New York, United States
- 83 Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
- 84 The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, United States
- 85 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
- 86 Coastal Carolina University, Conway, Arkansas, United States
- 87 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
- 88 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
- 89 Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States
- 90 Yale University, New Haven, United States
Over the last two decades, there have been numerous initiatives to improve undergraduate student outcomes in STEM. One model for scalable reform is the inclusive Research Education Community (iREC). In an iREC, STEM faculty from colleges and universities across the nation are supported to adopt and sustainably implement course-based research -a form of science pedagogy that enhances student learning and persistence in science. In this study, we used pathway modelling to develop a qualitative description that explicates the HHMI Science Education Alliance (SEA) iREC as a model for facilitating the successful adoption and continued advancement of new curricular content and pedagogy. In particular, outcomes that faculty realize through their participation in the SEA iREC were identified, organized by time, and functionally linked. The resulting pathway model was then revised and refined based on several rounds of feedback from over 100 faculty members in the SEA iREC who participated in the study. Our results show that in an iREC, STEM faculty organized as a long-standing community of practice leverage one another, outside expertise, and data to adopt, implement, and iteratively advance their pedagogy. The opportunity to collaborate in this manner and, additionally, to be recognized for pedagogical contributions sustainably engages STEM faculty in the advancement of their pedagogy.Here, we present a detailed pathway model of SEA that, together with underpinning features of an iREC identified in this study, offers a framework to facilitate transformations in undergraduate science education.
Keywords: Science Education Alliance, inclusive reseasrch and education community iREC, pathway modeling, course-based research experience (CURE), STEM faculty development
Received: 01 Jun 2024; Accepted: 25 Jul 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Monti, Gill, Adair, Adams, Ahumada-Santos, Amaya, Anders, Anderson, Antunes, Ayuk, Baliraine, Bates, Beyer, Bhalla, Bouklas, Bullock, Butela, Byrum, Caruso, Chong, Chung, Conant, Condon, Crump, D'Elia, K Dennis, DeVeaux, Diacovich, Diaz, DUFFY, Edwards, Fallest-Strobl, Findley, Fisher, Fogarty, Frost, Gainey, Galle, Gibb, Golebiewska, Gramajo, Grinath, Guerrero, Guild, Gunn, Gurney, Hughes, Jayachandran, Johnson, Johnson, Kanak, Kanther, King, Kohl, Lee-Soety, Lewis, Lindberg, Madden, Martin, Mastropaolo, McClory, Merkhofer, Merkle, Mitchell, Muss, Nieto, Nissen, Nsa, O'Donnell, Overath, T. Page, Panagakis, Parra Unda, Pass, Perez Morales, Peters, Plymale, Pollenz, Reyna, Rinehart, Rocheleau, Rombold, Rossier, Rudner, Rueschhoff, Shaffer, Smith, Sprenkle, Sunnen, Thomas, Tigges, Tobiason, Tolsma, Torruellas Garcia, Uetz, Vazquez, Ward, Ware, Washington, Waterman, Westholm, Wheaton, White, Williams, Williams, Wisner, Biederman, Cresawn, Heller, Jacobs-Sera, Russell, Hatfull, Asai, Hanauer, Graham and Sivanathan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Mark J. Graham, Yale University, New Haven, United States
Viknesh Sivanathan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Chevy Chase, 20815-6789, Maryland, United States
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.