BioTAP was initially funded by the NSF via a Research Coordination Network – Undergraduate Biology Education grant. Funding last from 2013-2021 through two phases of funding.
Principal investigator: Dr. Elisabeth Schussler, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Co-PIs, Grant Gardner (MTSU), Gili Marbach-Ad (Maryland), Kris Miller (Georgia), and Judy Ridgway (Ohio State)
The grant had a goal to build capacity within the network for research on biology graduate teaching assistant (GTA) teaching professional development (TPD). By helping practitioners assess their own programs, and work with others to compare assessments across institutions, the network can build the empirical data necessary to make data-driven decisions about programmatic practices.
The project that was funded from 2015-2021 had three objectives:
- Expand and support collaborations with all biology GTA TPD stakeholders (researchers, educators, administrators, graduate students)
- Create and implement Research Development Sessions and Virtual Learning Communities to foster collaborative research on biology GTA TPD
- Synthesize, disseminate, and advocate for research to identify empirically based best practices in biology GTA TPD
The Outcomes Report gives a more detailed picture of the accomplishments of the network as it relates to these three objectives.
The following steering committee was responsible for the 2015-2021 NSF-funded project:
- PI, Elisabeth Schussler; University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Co-PI, Grant Gardner; Middle Tennessee State University
- Co-PI, Gili Marbach-Ad;University of Maryland
- Co-PI, Kristen Miller; University of Georgia
- Co-PI, Judy Ridgway; Ohio State University
- Adam Chouinard; Oregon State University
- Ryan Coker; Florida State University
- Sarah Dalrymple; Boise State University
- Miriam Ferzli; North Carolina State University
- Stephanie Gutzler; Georgia State University
- Dan Johnson; Wake Forest University
- Lori Kayes; Oregon State University
- Star Lee; University of California, Irvine
- Andrew Lybbert; Ohio State University
- Kelly McDonald; California State University, Sacramento
- Judy Milton; University of Georgia
- Carol Pollock; Emeritus, University of British Columbia
- Todd Reeves; Northern Illinois University;
- Josh Reid; Middle Tennessee State University
- E. William Wischusen; Louisiana State University
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