Collaborative Research: Georgia STEM Accessibility Alliance (GSAA)

合作研究：佐治亚州 STEM 无障碍联盟 (GSAA)

• 批准号: 1027655
• 负责人: Robert Todd
• 金额: $ 151.15万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 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: 2010-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Georgia; STEM; Accessibility

The University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating partners with University of in a proposal to create the Georgia STEM Accessibility Alliance (GSAA). GSAA aims to establish an alliance between Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, Georgia Perimeter College and three public secondary school districts. All project activities support the goal of increasing the postsecondary STEM degree and career attainment of individuals with disabilities. The GSAA?s goals relate to increasing the number of secondary students with disabilities (SWD) enrolling in STEM postsecondary classes and majors, increasing the retention and graduation rates of individuals with disabilities in postsecondary STEM majors, and increasing successful entry rates of GSAA students into STEM graduate programs. A distinctive feature of GSAA is the use of a virtual world as the primary service-delivery model. The use of virtual mentoring and teaching, social networking, academic support, transition assistance, and preparation of instructions will be the primary interventions utilized in GSAA. GSAA goals are:Goal 1: Develop and evaluate GSAA intervention technologies and materials in Year 1 for use in Years 2-5. All modular materials will be made available via the Virtual Learning Reserves, one Reserve for secondary students and faculty and one for post-secondary students and faculty.Goal 2: Increase the number of secondary SwD (40/per year/140 total) participating in the GSAA STEM mentoring and virtual world STEM activities and entering STEM postsecondary programs in two-year colleges, technical colleges or university partner institutions (50% of participants, or 20 per project year, 80 total). Entering is defined as matriculating with a stated major in a STEM-related field. Goal 3: Increase retention in STEM majors by 180 students (baseline of 2,479 SWD, 723 SWD with declared STEM majors) and number of students graduating with STEM degrees (associates, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees) by 10 students from 2007 baseline (baseline of 94 students) in GSAA?s two-year college and university partner institutions through peer and faculty virtual and mentoring activities, evidence-based STEM learning practices, UDL solutions, and professional development initiatives.Goal 4: Increase the entry of GSAA STEM graduates (associates, baccalaureate and graduate) into STEM graduate programs by 10 per year from baseline measures (71 students) in Years 2-5. The project will implement interventions to support SWD as they cross three critical academic junctures: high school to two-year college; two-year to four-year college; and undergraduate education to graduate education or employment. GSAA activities include: 1. Creating a mentoring/training island in the virtual world of Second Life and integrating social networking tools to all participants year-round mentoring experiences; 2. Providing evidence-based STEM learning strategies with application of skills to STEM content via STEM Learning Seminars and Virtual Learning Communities for SWD;3. Enhancing the STEM faculty and staff ability to educate SWD using web-based and Second Life training modules to provide core professional training and development;4. Providing transition preparation and ongoing support to develop self-advocacy and academic skills essential for SWD to succeed in STEM secondary and postsecondary institutions.Work by internal and external/independent evaluators will provide formative and summative evaluation for the project which will provide evidence for the GSAA model. Dr. Tom McKlin of The Findings Group will provide external evaluation services to the project. Virtual world development and maintenance will be provided by Vesuvius, Inc. The project will develop materials for replicating the model nation-wide at secondary and postsecondary institutions. Recruiting processes, participant training methods, evaluation feedback instruments, and outcome measures will be formalized so that they can become easy to use for scale-up. GSAA materials and resources will be easily available via the Web to other institutions that seek to replicate the project model. GSAA will seek to apply scale-up first to other Alliances. Once this has been measured and documented, the project will apply efforts to scale up to other organizations outside of this funding directorate

佐治亚大学和佐治亚大学理工学院正在与大学合作，以建立佐治亚州STEM可及性联盟（GSAA）的提案。 GSAA旨在在佐治亚理工学院，佐治亚大学，佐治亚大学外围学院和三个公立中学区之间建立联盟。所有项目活动都支持提高上学后茎学位和残疾人职业的目标。 GSAA的目标涉及增加参加大专生和大满贯级的二级学生的数量（SWD），从而提高了学科后专业的残疾人的保留率和毕业率，并增加了GSAA学生进入STEM研究生课程的成功入学率。 GSAA的一个独特特征是将虚拟世界用作主要服务销售模型。 GSAA中使用的虚拟指导和教学，社交网络，学术支持，过渡援助以及指令的准备将是GSAA中使用的主要干预措施。 GSAA目标是：目标1：开发和评估在2 - 5年中使用的第一年中的GSAA干预技术和材料。所有模块化材料将通过虚拟学习储量提供，一项适用于中学学生和教师的储备，以及一项辅助学生和教师的储备。目标2：增加中学SWD的数量（40/每年/140个总计/140个）参加GSAA型茎的指导，并在两年中或大学伙伴的工业学院或大学伙伴的20％（50％）参与Internint Internitive，Internint Internitive Intern Internition（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％）（50％的大学）（50％） 全部的）。输入被定义为在与茎相关场中的陈述专业的校准。目标3：将STEM专业的保留量增加180名学生（2,479 SWD的基线，723 SWD，宣布为STEM专业的SWD）和2007年基线的10名学生（94名学生的基线和有效的伙伴伙伴的基线），以STEM学位（同事，学士学位和研究生学位）毕业的学生人数（辅助，学士学位和研究生学士学位）。学习实践，UDL解决方案和专业发展计划。目标4：增加GSAA STEM毕业生（同学，学士学位和研究生）的进入，每年从基线量度（71名学生）中每年10年以2 - 5年的身份进入STEM研究生课程。该项目将在SWD跨越三个关键的学术关头：高中到两年年的大学时，采取干预措施来支持SWD；两年到四年制大学；以及研究生教育或就业的本科教育。 GSAA活动包括：1。在第二人生的虚拟世界中创建一个指导/培训岛，并将社交网络工具整合到所有参与者全年的指导经验中； 2。通过STEM学习研讨会和SWD的虚拟学习社区来提供基于证据的STEM学习策略； 3。增强使用基于Web的和第二人寿培训模块来提供核心专业培训和开发的STEM教师和员工教育SWD的能力； 4。提供过渡准备和持续的支持，以发展SWD在STEM中学和中学后机构中取得成功至关重要的自我倡导和学术技能。内部和外部/独立评估者的工作将为该项目提供形成性和总结性评估，这将为GSAA模型提供证据。 调查结果小组的汤姆·麦克林（Tom McKlin）博士将为项目提供外部评估服务。 Vesuvius，Inc。将提供虚拟世界开发和维护。该项目将开发材料，以在中学和中学后的全国范围内复制该模型。招聘流程，参与者培训方法，评估反馈工具和结果指标将被形式化，以便它们易于使用以进行扩展。 GSAA材料和资源将通过网络轻松地向其他试图复制项目模型复制的机构提供。 GSAA将寻求首先将扩大规模应用于其他联盟。一旦测量和记录了这一点，该项目将采取努力将其扩展到本资金局以外的其他组织