TPSE Math Chairs +1 Conference #2

TPSE 数学主席 1 次会议

• 批准号: 1725394
• 负责人: Phillip Griffiths
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Institute For Advanced Study
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TPSE; Math; Chairs; +1; Conference

An established United States workforce need and critical challenge is to recruit and train students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Because mathematics is a fundamental part of all STEM disciplines, success of undergraduate students in mathematics is a crucial ingredient in addressing this challenge. This "TPSE Math Chairs+1 Conference #2" project, with leadership team from the Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math) group, will organize and convene a conference primarily of mathematical sciences department chairs and other academic leaders from a diverse set of institutions of higher education from across the country. This is the second conference of this nature with the first having been held in October, 2016 (NSF 1651738). Workshop topics will include several key questions and issues to be addressed to catalyze improved teaching, learning, retention, and overall student success in undergraduate mathematics. Although recent education research has provided the STEM education community with indications and suggestions for various directions for change to improve undergraduate teaching and student learning, this community as a whole has not always been quick to foster such changes. Among the purposes of the workshop will be to encourage more collaboration among members of the mathematics community, help department chairs develop capacities to catalyze change in their own departments, and serve as a vehicle for chairs with common interests to work together for change after the conference, especially in areas of developing more diverse and modern curricula for mathematics majors and non-mathematics majors alike. To help guide the discussion and conference outcomes, the conference organizers with input from participants plan to address a wide range of questions and determine research needed to address them. The questions and categories include: (1) What do the various STEM disciplines want for their students who take mathematics? What mathematical training do other disciplines want for their majors? Is this training appropriate for careers in those disciplines? (2) What kinds of mathematical sciences training do employers want? Do employers in fact know what mathematics training can be most useful for their employees? (3) What are the levels of career satisfaction experienced by students who have - and have not - taken particular mathematics courses or pathways? (4) What menu of mathematics training best supports basic numeracy (general quantitative and reasoning skills) for citizens in today's society? and (5) Why are the current post-secondary pathways variations of algebra and calculus unsatisfactory? What should replace them? The conference also will showcase extant models, resources, and research results, and participants will be asked to suggest how they can be adopted, adapted, disseminated, scaled up, and evaluated, and to recommend what additional research is needed.

一项既定的美国劳动力需求和关键挑战是招募和培训科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的学生。由于数学是所有STEM学科的基本组成部分，因此在数学领域的大学生的成功是应对这一挑战的关键要素。这个“ TPSE数学椅+1会议＃2”项目，由转型的数学后教育（TPSE Math）小组的领导团队组织和召集主要是数学科学系主席和其他学术领导者的会议，以及来自全国各地高等教育机构的多样化机构。这是这种性质的第二次会议，第一次会议于2016年10月举行（NSF 1651738）。研讨会主题将包括几个关键问题和要解决的问题，以促进改进的教学，学习，保留和学生在本科数学方面的成功。尽管最近的教育研究为STEM教育社区提供了各种变革方向的指示和建议，以改善本科教学和学生学习，但整个社区并不总是很快促进这种变化。研讨会的目的之一将是鼓励数学社区成员之间进行更多的合作，帮助部门主席发展能力，以催化自己部门的变化，并作为具有共同利益的椅子的工具，可以在会议后共同努力，尤其是在发展更多样化和现代课程的数学专业和非现代专业的课程。为了帮助指导讨论和会议成果，会议组织者的参与者计划计划解决广泛的问题并确定解决方案所需的研究。问题和类别包括：（1）各种STEM学科对于接受数学的学生需要什么？其他学科对他们的专业需要哪些数学培训？这种培训适合这些学科的职业吗？ （2）雇主想要哪些数学科学培训？雇主实际上知道哪些数学培训对员工最有用？ （3）拥有（但未）参加特定数学课程或途径的学生所经历的职业满意度水平是多少？ （4）哪种数学培训最能为当今社会的公民提供基本算术（一般定量和推理技能）？ （5）为什么代数和微积分的当前大专后途径变化不令人满意？什么应该替换它们？会议还将展示现有的模型，资源和研究结果，并将要求参与者建议如何采用，适应，分发，扩展和评估他们，并建议需要其他研究。