UWM STEM CELL: An integrated approach to improve early college STEM education outcomes

UWM STEM CELL：提高早期大学 STEM 教育成果的综合方法

• 批准号: 1505290
• 负责人: Kristen Murphy
• 金额: $ 24.97万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UWM; STEM; CELL; integrated; approach

UWM STEM CELL is a pilot project to address pedagogical and sociocultural issues that contribute to the lack of persistence and the flow of talented and interested students away from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors at the early-career undergraduate level. Many aspirational STEM students lack the cultural knowledge about how to operate successfully in a university setting, have little idea what a STEM career entails, and have academic backgrounds that are deficient. STEM CELL will fundamentally reorient the institutional culture from an attrition model to one that is focused on student outcomes emphasizing STEM persistence, learning, enthusiasm and informed decision making. The project will sustain students in need of academic support, provide individualized guidance regarding STEM major and career choices, and immerse students in practical, integrative, early academic career experiences to help inform their chosen fields of study and career paths. The project will accomplish its goals through the comprehensive application of a suite of low-cost, high-impact interventions, including intentional course alignment across disciplinary boundaries among courses in mathematics, chemistry, and biology, implementation of active learning modes of pedagogy, development of a learning community with integrated academic and social supports, and explicit attention to issues of relevance including the construction of a dynamic individual development plan. This comprehensive intervention will be rigorously evaluated and tested by a randomized trial, with the intervention explicitly co-planned alongside the evaluation design. This evaluation will provide unambiguous information regarding the effectiveness of this scalable, sustainable comprehensive intervention and thus will be relevant to institutions of higher education nationwide.

UWM干细胞是一个试点项目，旨在解决教学和社会文化问题，这些问题导致缺乏持久性以及有才华和有兴趣的学生的流动远离早期职业学院本科生的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）专业。许多有抱负的STEM学生缺乏有关如何在大学环境中成功运作的文化知识，几乎不知道STEM职业需要什么，并且具有不足的学术背景。干细胞从根本上将重新定位从损耗模型到侧重于强调Stem持久性，学习，热情和明智决策的学生结果的制度文化。该项目将维持需要学术支持的学生，提供有关STEM专业和职业选择的个性化指导，并将学生沉浸在实用，综合，早期的学术职业经验中，以帮助您所选择的学习和职业道路。该项目将通过全面应用一套低成本，高影响力的干预措施来实现其目标，包括数学，化学和生物学课程之间跨学科界限的故意课程对齐，教育学的积极学习模式，与学习社会支持的学习社区的发展，以及相关性的发展，包括学习社会的发展社区的发展。 这种全面的干预措施将通过一项随机试验进行严格评估和测试，干预措施与评估设计一起明确共同计划。 该评估将提供有关这种可扩展，可持续的综合干预措施有效性的明确信息，因此将与全国高等教育机构有关。