Strategies: Leveraging the U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Program to Develop a Regional STEM Workforce

策略：利用美国陆军初级预备役军官训练团 (JROTC) 计划培养地区 STEM 劳动力

• 批准号: 1759430
• 负责人: Susan Hinton
• 金额: $ 97.16万
• 依托单位: Mobile County Public Schools
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759430&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategies; Leveraging; U.S.; Army; Junior

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiences. The Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS), in partnership with STEMWorks, LLC and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), will leverage two existing programs- a local Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) and a workforce development organization to increase the interest and competency of grade 9-11 students in pursuing STEM careers. The project's main intervention will be a one-week long summer residential academy where cohorts of students engage in physical conditioning, JROTC activities, site visits, and STEM projects. A major goal of the project is to study the short-term and long-term effects of participation in the JROTC STEM Leadership Academy. Another goal is to formalize a JROTC-centered STEM workforce development summer academy model that can be replicated regionally and across the United States. The project will study the effects of participation in the JROTC STEM Leadership Academy using Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) as a framework that will be applied to organize and measure the relative effect of different factors on student choice. The project will utilize a mixed methods comparison group design to investigate the effects of strategically situating STEM learning and workforce experiences within a traditional JROTC summer leadership and fitness camp in order to increase the number of high school students in the STEM pipeline. The research includes Brinkerhoff's Success Case Method, sampling a subset of students who chose a STEM trajectory to develop in-depth stories of the student's experiences before, during and after the intervention in order to identify the internal and environmental support that lead to choosing a STEM pathway.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将促进针对学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术经验的努力，以更好地理解和促进实践，从而通过从事实验室/基于实验室/项目的企业家职位和指导经验，从事科学，技术，工程或数学或数学（STEM）领域的职业。移动县公立学校系统（MCPSS）与STEMWorks，LLC和南密西西比大学（USM）合作，将利用两个现有的计划 - 当地的初级储备官培训军（JROTC）和一个劳动力发展组织，以提高9-11年级学生在追求STEM Parreers中的利益和能力。该项目的主要干预措施将是一个为期一周的夏季住宅学院，其中许多学生从事身体调节，JROTC活动，现场就诊和STEM项目。 该项目的主要目标是研究JROTC STEM领导学院参与的短期和长期影响。另一个目标是正式化以JROTC为中心的STEM劳动力发展夏季学院模型，该模型可以在区域和整个美国进行复制。该项目将使用社会认知职业理论（SCCT）作为一个框架来研究参与JROTC STEM领导力学院的影响，该框架将用于组织和衡量不同因素对学生选择的相对影响。该项目将利用混合方法比较小组设计来研究在传统的JROTC夏季领导和健身营中策略性地构成STEM学习和劳动力经验的影响，以增加STEM管道中的高中生数量。这项研究包括Brinkerhoff的成功案例方法，对选择STEM轨迹的一部分学生在干预之前，之中和之后开发有关学生经历的深入故事，以确定导致STEM途径的内部和环境支持，从而选择了STEM途径。该奖项通过评估委员会的支持师的支持者，该奖项反映了该奖项的范围，该奖项已被视为众所周知的构成者的构成师的构成群体的范围和奠定范围。