Sponsor
The UBER GRS and GRC were supported in part by funding from the HHMI, the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 1R13GM134534-01, and the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Award 1922648.
Published In
CBE—Life Sciences Education
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
Summer 2020
Subjects
Biology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States, Biology -- Research -- United States, Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States, Curriculum enrichment, Academic achievement
Abstract
The 2019 Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference (UBER GRC), titled “Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education,” brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working to identify, promote, and understand widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching, learning, and success strategies in undergraduate biology. Graduate students and postdocs had the additional opportunity to present and discuss research during a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) that preceded the GRC. This report provides a broad overview of the UBER GRC and GRS and highlights major themes that cut across invited talks, poster presentations, and informal discussions. Such themes include the importance of working in teams at multiple levels to achieve instructional improvement, the potential to use big data and analytics to inform instructional change, the need to customize change initiatives, and the importance of psychosocial supports in improving undergraduate student well-being and academic success. The report also discusses the future of the UBER GRC as an established meeting and describes aspects of the conference that make it unique, both in terms of facilitating dissemination of research and providing a welcoming environment for conferees.
Rights
© 2020 E. L. Dolan et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2020 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s).
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DOI
10.1187/cbe.19-09-0188
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/32847
Citation Details
Dolan, E. L., Borrero, M., Callis-Duehl, K., Musgrove, M. M. C., de Lima, J., Ero-Tolliver, I., ... & Herrera, J. (2020). Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference: A Meeting Report. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(2), mr1.