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Initial Publication Date: March 16, 2015
SERC has an extensive portfolio of projects that have been created, developed, and implemented in collaboration with many partners. Learn more about many of our current and past projects using the browse below.
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- Authentic Science Experience 4 matches
- Quantitative Skills 6 matches
- Spatial and Temporal Thinking 2 matches
- Visualization 2 matches
- Working with Data 10 matches
Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind
10 matches General/OtherSERC Role
- Community Building/Organization 4 matches A focus on activities that create a sense of community amongst project participants. This can include groups such as communities of practice, professional organizations, and research coordination networks.
- Content Expertise 8 matches A focus on SERC staff writing disciplinary content for a project. Many SERC staff members have advanced degrees and all can contribute a wide range of content knowledge to projects.
- Education Research 4 matches A focus on facilitating or conducting research on what works in the STEM classroom across a variety of levels and contexts. Project foci include student assessment, spatial reasoning, teaching and learning practices, influence of professional development, influence of open education internet resources, influence of Communities of Practice, and levers of change in higher education.
- Evaluation 8 matches SERC has deep experience in utilization-focused, evidence-based program evaluation. This can include a wide variety of methodologies, evaluation planning, and capacity building for project teams.
- Event Development/Facilitation 8 matches A focus on planning, organizing, and supporting in-person or virtual events as part of a project's activities. This can include logistical support, program development, session facilitation, and all other aspects of running successful events.
- Materials Development/Review 13 matches A focus on supporting the creation of new pedagogic materials addressing some specific content area, pedagogic need, or educator audience. This can include aspects such as the technical infrastructure to support authoring, management of author teams, and facilitating expert review prior to publishing.
- Product Dissemination 15 matches A focus on helping publicize and raise awareness of the outcomes, products, and findings of project work. This can include activities such as presentations at professional meetings, writing manuscripts, running webinars, and writing press releases.
- Professional Development 4 matches A focus on putting together opportunities for project participants to learn new skills or content related to the goals of the project. This can include activities such as synchronous or asynchronous events, self-paced materials, and creating an enduring record of activities for use after the end of project funding.
- Project Lead (PI/Co-PI) 5 matches SERC has a primary leadership function on this project. One or more SERC staff members direct the work of the project.
- Project Management/Implementation 6 matches A focus on ensuring that project work moves forward in a timely fashion. This can include activities such as scheduling regular meetings, providing deadlines and reminders for project personnel, and maintaining records of discussions and project decisions in a centralized space.
- Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership 5 matches A focus on SERC staff assisting project leadership with designing activities to meet the goals they set for the project. This can involve activities such as grant writing and visioning, participation in project leadership, providing exemplars from past projects, and contributing lessons learned from SERC's collective experience.
- Website Hosting and Development 25 matches A focus on providing the technical infrastructure and support for a project's website. This can include activities such as creating new SERCkit tools, development of website architecture, and design of the website's look and feel.
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Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind: Focuses on developing students' ability to think and act with disciplinary expertise. This encompasses concepts like systems thinking, quantitative reasoning, field-based learning, spatial and temporal thinking, data visualization and manipulation.
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GET Spatial Learning
The Geoscience Education Transdisciplinary Spatial Learning Network aims to develop educational tools that can help students, across classroom and field settings, to better understand and build upon historically difficult geoscience concepts.
The Geoscience Education Transdisciplinary Spatial Learning Network aims to develop educational tools that can help students, across classroom and field settings, to better understand and build upon historically difficult geoscience concepts.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Spatial and Temporal Thinking
SERC Role: Community Building/Organization, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development, Education Research
SERC Role: Community Building/Organization, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development, Education Research
NICHE
This website provides a repository of resources and information for faculty from across the disciplines who are seeking to infuse numeracy into their course instruction. SERC supported the authors in developing this website and provide ongoing hosting.
This website provides a repository of resources and information for faculty from across the disciplines who are seeking to infuse numeracy into their course instruction. SERC supported the authors in developing this website and provide ongoing hosting.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences
Quantitative skills are an essential tool for both the geoscientist and the citizen. This site provides resources for faculty that include pedagogic methods, teaching resources, supporting materials for students and a discussion of the issues. SERC was the leader of the project, planned and implemented the professional development workshops that generated content for the project, and hosts the website.
Quantitative skills are an essential tool for both the geoscientist and the citizen. This site provides resources for faculty that include pedagogic methods, teaching resources, supporting materials for students and a discussion of the issues. SERC was the leader of the project, planned and implemented the professional development workshops that generated content for the project, and hosts the website.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
GNOMES
This project provides an engaging outdoor field experience for the student participants that will influence their choice of major, provide mentorship opportunities for upper-level undergraduates, create positive and lasting student-student and student-faculty mentor relationships, provide meaningful research experiences for the students, and create a strong cohort of students across multiple institutions. As external evaluators, SERC uses a mixed methods approach to triangulate qualitative and quantitative data from surveys and interviews to provide to make informed project improvements.
This project provides an engaging outdoor field experience for the student participants that will influence their choice of major, provide mentorship opportunities for upper-level undergraduates, create positive and lasting student-student and student-faculty mentor relationships, provide meaningful research experiences for the students, and create a strong cohort of students across multiple institutions. As external evaluators, SERC uses a mixed methods approach to triangulate qualitative and quantitative data from surveys and interviews to provide to make informed project improvements.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind
SERC Role: Evaluation
SERC Role: Evaluation
Quantitative Social Science Digital Library Pathway
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Quantitative Skills, Working with Data
SERC Role: Evaluation, Education Research
SERC Role: Evaluation, Education Research
Oceans in the News
The Oceans in the News course uses polar science examples to build student skills in data analysis and use of media and other sources. Students will develop proficiency in data visualization and its application to the analysis of news stories about polar regions. SERC adapted it course publishing format to allow dissemination of these course materials.
The Oceans in the News course uses polar science examples to build student skills in data analysis and use of media and other sources. Students will develop proficiency in data visualization and its application to the analysis of news stories about polar regions. SERC adapted it course publishing format to allow dissemination of these course materials.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data, Visualization
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development
Science for Non-Scientists
This project shared a wealth of teaching materials from a general education course designed to introduce non-science majors to scientific ways of thinking; the course developed remarkably strong critical thinking skills. SERC provided a platform to post these resources for wider use.
This project shared a wealth of teaching materials from a general education course designed to introduce non-science majors to scientific ways of thinking; the course developed remarkably strong critical thinking skills. SERC provided a platform to post these resources for wider use.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
Supporting STEM Success in a Liberal Arts Context
Supporting STEM in a Liberal Arts Context synthesized the experiences of 11 institutions striving to strengthen the undergraduate experiences in science and mathematics for all of their students. These predominantly undergraduate institutions were selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as 'Capstone Programs' and had extensive experience in strengthening students experiences in STEM programs. SERC provided support for synchronous meetings, gathering expertise, and writing and publishing the suite of program models and institutional examples that resulted from the work of the project.
Supporting STEM in a Liberal Arts Context synthesized the experiences of 11 institutions striving to strengthen the undergraduate experiences in science and mathematics for all of their students. These predominantly undergraduate institutions were selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as 'Capstone Programs' and had extensive experience in strengthening students experiences in STEM programs. SERC provided support for synchronous meetings, gathering expertise, and writing and publishing the suite of program models and institutional examples that resulted from the work of the project.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges , Changing Education Systems, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience
SERC Role: Community Building/Organization, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
SERC Role: Community Building/Organization, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
Curriculum for the Bioregion
Curriculum for the Bioregion is a network of educators in Washington State who are integrating sustainability and place-based content and pedagogy in a broad array of undergraduate courses and community-based learning. SERC hosts the project website and provided tools to facilitate faculty learning community meetings.
Curriculum for the Bioregion is a network of educators in Washington State who are integrating sustainability and place-based content and pedagogy in a broad array of undergraduate courses and community-based learning. SERC hosts the project website and provided tools to facilitate faculty learning community meetings.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Changing Education Systems, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education
This project developed an online system where undergraduate instructors can share and repurpose data-centered hydrology teaching units. SERC helped develop the curriculum module system and hosts the website.
This project developed an online system where undergraduate instructors can share and repurpose data-centered hydrology teaching units. SERC helped develop the curriculum module system and hosts the website.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience, Working with Data
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review