Kulia: Chaminade University I-USE Program

Kulia：查米纳德大学 I-USE 计划

• 批准号: 1525884
• 负责人: Helen Turner
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Chaminade University of Honolulu
• 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: 2015-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525884&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Kulia; Chaminade; University; USE; Program

Chaminade University is an undergraduate university with a special mission of serving Native Hawaiians and students from the US-affiliated Pacific Islands. This Kûlia (Hawaiian: to strive) project will offer innovative educational approaches to prepare the next generation of Hawaiian and Pacific Islander scientists to lead the development of practical and policy-based solutions to Pacific regional challenges. These innovative approaches include a focus on "big data" and the curricular infusion of indigenous knowledge to promote a culturally-inclusive learning environment for cutting-edge science. Kûlia is an inter-institutional effort (The Chaminade University of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii at Hilo) that will leverage domain science, diversity/equity and data science expertise. The project will address the IUSE aims of improving STEM-learning environments, broadening participation, and building a professional STEM workforce for tomorrow. Three specific activities will be undertaken. First, the two semester introductory biology courses required of all science majors at Chaminade will be converted to authentic, semester-long, research classrooms, with the goals of: promoting early engagement in research classrooms and creating a research mindset for students; increasing student persistence in science majors; closing an initial gap in the existing inquiry-based curriculum; and providing a vehicle for crowd-sourcing faculty research projects. Second, authentic, semester-long, culturally-inspired research projects, will be piloted in senior biology courses. These research classrooms will be framed by indigenous Hawaiian traditional knowledge. Third, recognizing that skills in big data manipulation, analytics and visualization are central to success in tomorrow's scientific workplaces, a core set of data lifecycle modules will be embedded throughout the curriculum and tools will be developed for assessment of student competencies in gathering, organizing and analyzing large, complex data sets. Kulia will provide new tools for small undergraduate institutions, especially Minority Serving Institutions, to confront the emerging digital disparity that threatens to exclude their students from access to, and success in, tomorrow's STEM careers. To help assess the effectiveness of this suite of curricular innovations the project will employ several approaches including use of the Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) survey and the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) instrument.

Chaminade University是一所本科生，其特殊任务是为来自美国隶属的太平洋岛屿的夏威夷人和学生提供服务。这个库里亚（夏威夷人：奋斗）项目将提供创新的教育方法，以准备下一代夏威夷和太平洋岛民科学家，以领导开发基于实用和政策的解决方案，以应对太平洋地区挑战。这些创新的方法包括关注“大数据”以及当前对土著知识的注入，以促进具有文化知名度的尖端科学学习环境。 Kûlia是一项机构间的努力（檀香山夏胺大学和希洛大学的夏威夷大学），将利用领域科学，多样性/权益和数据科学专家。该项目将解决改善茎学习环境，扩大参与并为明天建立专业STEM劳动力的IUSE目标。将进行三个具体活动。首先，Chaminade所有科学专业要求的两个学期介绍生物学课程将转换为真实的，学期的研究教室，其目标的目标是：促进早期参与研究课堂的参与并为学生创造研究心态；在科学专业的学生持续下增加学生的毅力；在现有的基于询问的课程中缩小初始差距；并为众包教师研究项目提供车辆。其次，将在高级生物学课程中驾驶真实的，学期的，文化灵感的研究项目。这些研究课程将由夏威夷土著传统知识构成。第三，认识到大数据操纵，分析和可视化的技能对于明天的科学工作场所的成功至关重要，因此将通过课程嵌入一组核心数据生命周期模块，并将开发工具，以评估学生在收集，组织和分析大型，复杂的数据集中的学生能力。库里亚（Kulia）将为小型本科机构，尤其是少数派服务机构提供新的工具，以面对新兴的数字差异，这些数字差异有可能使他们的学生无法获得明天的STEM职业。为了帮助评估这套课程创新的有效性，该项目将采用几种方法，包括使用基于课程的本科研究经验（CURE）调查和学生的学习收益评估（SALG）工具。