Implementation Project: The DREAM STEM Project: Enhancing Academics, Entrepreneurship, and STEM Career Pathways

实施项目：DREAM STEM 项目：增强学术、创业精神和 STEM 职业道路

• 批准号: 1818706
• 负责人: Caesar Jackson
• 金额: $ 225万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Central University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; DREAM; STEM; Enhancing

Implementation Projects provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthen education and research. The project at North Carolina Central University seeks to build on previous successful efforts to increase participation of African-American students in STEM disciplines. The goal of the project is to educate STEM students who are critical thinking problem solvers, knowledge creators, skilled innovators, and are entrepreneurial. The project will impact all STEM majors at the institution, but directly supports over 200 students annually as researchers, peer tutors, summer institute or conference participants.The project has the objectives to: increase enrollment and retention in STEM degree programs; increase persistence and graduation rates in STEM degree programs; and produce highly-skilled STEM graduates who can create and innovate. Each objective is supported by a set of evidence-based strategies and activities, such as proactive advising and mentoring, active-learning and inquiry-based teaching strategies, identity as a scientist, and entrepreneurship in science education. The project expects to produce strong effects on students' motivation, self-efficacy, and commitment to STEM that will lead to higher academic and professional outcomes for the students. A research study will be conducted to investigate the effects of active-learning instructional approaches in STEM courses on student motivation for learning and their academic performance. The project will be advised and evaluated for effectiveness by internal and external advisory boards and by a team of evaluators.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.

实施项目为传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 提供支持，以设计、实施、研究和评估全面的机构工作，以增加获得科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 本科学位的学生数量，并提高教育质量通过加强教育和研究来做好准备。北卡罗来纳中央大学的该项目旨在以之前的成功努力为基础，提高非裔美国学生对 STEM 学科的参与度。 该项目的目标是教育 STEM 学生成为批判性思维问题解决者、知识创造者、熟练创新者和企业家。该项目将影响该机构的所有 STEM 专业，但每年直接支持 200 多名学生作为研究人员、同伴导师、暑期学院或会议参与者。该项目的目标是： 增加 STEM 学位课程的入学率和保留率；提高 STEM 学位课程的坚持率和毕业率；培养具有创造和创新能力的高技能 STEM 毕业生。每个目标都得到一系列基于证据的策略和活动的支持，例如主动建议和指导、主动学习和探究式教学策略、科学家身份以及科学教育中的创业精神。该项目预计会对学生的动机、自我效能和对 STEM 的承诺产生强烈影响，从而为学生带来更高的学术和职业成果。我们将进行一项研究，调查 STEM 课程中主动学习的教学方法对学生学习动机及其学业成绩的影响。 该项目将由内部和外部顾问委员会以及评估小组提供建议和评估其有效性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。