Critical-Juncture, STEM Educational Innovations Driven by Holistic, Integrative Evaluation Systems

紧要关头，全面、综合评价体系驱动的 STEM 教育创新

• 批准号: 0963641
• 负责人: Loren Blanchard
• 金额: $ 123.6万
• 依托单位: Xavier University of Louisiana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963641&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Critical; Juncture; STEM; Educational; Innovations

The Xavier University of Louisiana I-CUBED program will focus on two of the I-CUBED program's integrative themes, namely, the critical educational junctures and broadening participation in STEM disciplines. The program will integrate and enhance the University's suite of core STEM bridge programs, which serve to attract underrepresented minority students into STEM fields and assist them in the transition from their high school studies through their first year of college. The project proposes to provide a new model for integrating and assessing "bridge" programs at the institution that have been successful especially in graduating African American students with STEM degrees. Overall goal of the project is to effectively connect, integrate and evaluate a core set of STEM bridge programs at Xavier and the summer/freshman year learning environment in STEM at the institution. This would be achieved by increasing collaboration and communication among faculty, increasing faculty access and exposure to resources and research in STEM education development, providing assessment and evaluation systems for STEM education development, and stimulating research on and information dissemination of same. Innovative, transferable instructional strategies and assessment models will be developed and fully tested. The program will begin to change the institutional culture of the university, breaking down departmental barriers and developing an environment of cooperation and collaboration based on state of the art planning and assessment systems. Xavier's I-CUBED program will use its nationally successful mechanisms for dissemination of STEM programs, to share program results throughout the higher education community.

路易斯安那州Xavier大学I-Cubed计划将重点介绍I-Cubed计划的两个集成主题，即关键的教育关头和扩大参与STEM学科的主题。该计划将整合和增强大学的核心STEM桥计划套件，该计划有助于吸引代表性不足的少数族裔学生进入STEM领域，并协助他们从高中学习到大学的第一年过渡。该项目建议提供一种新的模型，以整合和评估机构的“桥梁”计划，尤其是在毕业具有STEM学位的非裔美国学生方面。该项目的总体目标是有效地连接，整合和评估Xavier的核心桥梁计划以及该机构STEM的夏季/新生年学习环境。 这将通过增加教师之间的协作和沟通，增加教师的访问和对STEM教育开发中的资源和研究的影响，为STEM教育发展提供评估和评估系统，并刺激对同一的研究和信息传播的研究和评估系统。将开发和全面测试创新的，可转移的教学策略和评估模型。该计划将开始改变大学的机构文化，打破部门的障碍，并根据艺术计划和评估系统的状态开发合作与协作环境。 Xavier的I-Cubed计划将使用其全国成功的机制来传播STEM计划，并在整个高等教育社区共享计划结果。