From High School Students to College Geoscience Majors: The Critical Math Connection

从高中生到大学地球科学专业：关键的数学联系

基本信息

批准号：
1202858
负责人：
Eleanour Snow
金额：
$ 14.46万
依托单位：
University of Texas at Austin
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1202858&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Students College Geoscience Majors Critical

项目摘要

The GeoFORCE Texas Critical Math Connection targets a group of high school juniors and seniors who have a strong interest in majoring in geology in college, and provides them with critical interventions while in high school in order to 1) improve their math knowledge, confidence, and preparedness, and 2) engage their geoscience problem solving skills. The target students are participants in a high school outreach program called GeoFORCE Texas. The group is 82% minority, from challenged schools in rural southwest Texas and inner-city Houston. While GeoFORCE gives them a strong interest in geosciences, their high schools leave them poorly prepared for college level math. This project is investigating two critical research questions: 1. Can the persistence of students in geoscience majors be affected by improving math preparedness in high school? 2. Can an engaging geologic problem sustain interest in the geosciences and prove to be a critical incident in moving students from liking geology to majoring in geology? It is expected that together these activities will result in an easier path from high school into a college geology major, and that this will be reflected in retention and persistence data. Ultimately, the project seeks to identify an effective model for engaging more minority youth in the geosciences.

德克萨斯州的地理批判性数学连接针对一群高中生和高年级学生，他们对大学的地质学专业有浓厚的兴趣，并在高中时为他们提供了关键的干预措施，以便提高他们的数学知识，信心，准备和准备，以及2）2）参与他们的地球科学问题解决能力。目标学生是一项名为Geoforce Texas的高中外展计划的参与者。该集团来自德克萨斯州西南部和休斯敦乡村的挑战学校的少数民族。尽管Geoforce使他们对地球科学有浓厚的兴趣，但他们的高中使他们为大学级数学做好了准备。该项目正在研究两个关键的研究问题：1。地球科学专业的学生的持久性能否受到高中数学准备的影响？ 2。引人入胜的地质问题能否对地球科学感兴趣，并被证明是使学生从喜欢地质学到地质专业的重要事件？可以预期，这些活动将导致从高中到大学地质专业的一条更容易的道路，这将反映在保留和持久性数据中。最终，该项目试图确定一个有效的模型，以使更多的少数族裔青年参与地球科学。