Good afternoon,
It is with great pleasure that I call your attention to a report released today by the National Academy of Sciences via the National Research Council Board on Science Education:
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13362
The report, entitled "Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering," prominently features chemistry education research (CER), as well as physics (PER), biology (BER), engineering (EER), geology (GER), and astronomy (AER) education research, collectively under the umbrella term of "DBER" (pronounced dee-ber).
I would urge you to read this report and share it broadly with your grad students, post-docs, faculty colleagues, P&T committees, department chairs, deans, etc. Please note the rules for sharing NRC reports:
http://www.nap.edu/content/help/about_pdf.html
You can download your own PDF of the report free of charge at
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13362
but should not distribute the pdf yourself. You may, however, circulate the URL, put a widget on your website, or use a variety of social media tools (click on the "+share" button, Tweet, facebook, etc.). Directions for the social media options are provided via the above URL. Following these procedures ensures that everyone downloads the most up-to-date, authoritative version of the report.
Lastly, in a moment of personal privilege, I would like to note that CER was represented on the committee that authored this report by Melanie Cooper of Clemson University and myself. The NRC has prepared slides for members of the committee to use at conferences and in giving talks about the report. For example, a report will be made at the upcoming TRUSE conference
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/towns/truse/
Should you wish to invite Melanie or myself to give such a report at an upcoming conference or as a departmental seminar, etc., please feel free to contact us.
Sincerely,
Stacey
Stacey Lowery Bretz
Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Board of Trustees, ACS Examinations Institute
Miami University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Oxford, OH 45056
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