Targeted Infusion Project: Creation of a for Credit Online Scientific Literacy Pre-Freshmen Summer Bridge Program

有针对性的注入项目：创建学分在线科学素养新生暑期桥梁项目

• 批准号: 1818618
• 负责人: Lycurgus Muldrow
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Morehouse College
• 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: 2018-05-15 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Targeted; Infusion; Project; Creation; Credit

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. Morehouse College will implement a Targeted Infusion Project entitled: Creation of a for Credit Online scientific Literacy Pre-freshmen Summer Bridge Program. This highly innovative project will create a new category of problem-based learning products designed to facilitate student understanding of the scientific research process by using a virtual laboratory to simulate a research experience. Anticipated outcomes from this virtual research experience include increasing students? critical thinking skills, intrinsic motivation, self-management skills, utilitarian scientific literacy and intent to persist in STEM careers. The new category of problem-based learning products that will be created to infuse into the online Scientific Literacy course will occur by modifying an interdisciplinary research simulation case study (RSCS) entitled Brain Eating Amoeba. The RSCS is a faculty mentored experience that requires a student to solve a research case study by assuming the role of a research scientist. The RSCS Brain Eating Amoeba will be facilitated by a virtual embodied conversational agent (ECA) instead of a live faculty mentor. This computer-generated character is created from the face of a real individual and demonstrates many of the same properties as human face-to-face conversation, including the ability to produce and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. An embodied conversational agent-research simulation (ECA-RS) case study will be created by combining ECA technology with the comprehensive, interdisciplinary Brain Eating Amoeba RSCS. The addition of the Brain Eating Amoeba ECA-RS to the online course will enable its transition to a for-credit course that will be offered at no cost during the Pre-Freshmen Scientific Literacy Summer Bridge Program as an incentive for pre-freshmen to participate. The successful implementation of this program at Morehouse College will increase retention and ultimately graduation rates of African American students graduating with STEM degrees and entering into the national STEM workforce.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.

历史上黑人学院和大学本科项目 (HBCU-UP) 通过定向注入项目支持开发、实施和研究基于证据的创新模型和方法，以改善 HBCU 本科生的准备和成功，以便他们能够攻读 STEM 研究生计划和/或职业。莫尔豪斯学院将实施一个名为：创建学分在线科学素养新生预科暑期桥梁计划的有针对性的注入项目。这个高度创新的项目将创建一类新的基于问题的学习产品，旨在通过使用虚拟实验室模拟研究体验来促进学生理解科学研究过程。这种虚拟研究体验的预期成果包括增加学生数量？批判性思维能力、内在动机、自我管理能力、功利性科学素养以及坚持 STEM 职业的意愿。将通过修改名为“脑食阿米巴”的跨学科研究模拟案例研究（RSCS）来创建新类别的基于问题的学习产品，以融入在线科学素养课程中。 RSCS 是一种由教师指导的体验，要求学生通过扮演研究科学家的角色来解决研究案例研究。 RSCS 食脑变形虫将由虚拟对话代理（ECA）而不是现场教师导师来协助。这种计算机生成的角色是根据真实个体的面部创建的，并表现出许多与人类面对面对话相同的属性，包括产生和响应言语和非言语交流的能力。将 ECA 技术与综合性、跨学科的脑食阿米巴 RSCS 相结合，创建具身会话代理研究模拟 (ECA-RS) 案例研究。将“食脑阿米巴 ECA-RS”添加到在线课程中，将使其能够过渡为学分课程，该课程将在新生科学素养夏季桥梁计划期间免费提供，以激励新生参与。莫尔豪斯学院成功实施该计划将提高获得 STEM 学位并进入国家 STEM 劳动力队伍的非裔美国学生的保留率和最终毕业率。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。