Catalyzing New Practices for the San Joaquin Valley to Innovate Effective Teaching Pedagogies in Lower-Division Mathematics and Chemistry Courses

促进圣华金河谷的新实践，创新低年级数学和化学课程的有效教学法

• 批准号: 1928510
• 负责人: Jessica De Silva
• 金额: $ 79.04万
• 依托单位: California State University-Stanislaus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyzing; New; Practices; San; Joaquin

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to design, deliver, and test new practices for teaching in STEM at three Hispanic-Serving Institutions which are part of the California State University (CSU) system in the San Joaquin Valley: CSU Stanislaus, CSU Fresno, and CSU Bakersfield. The project will develop and offer innovative summer retreats, called Ideas Labs, for STEM faculty to engage in a novel collaborative process to adapt and develop High Impact Practices (HIPs) using explicit Creative Problem Solving (CPS) methodology.The project will enhance each institution's Faculty Learning Program (FLP) to provide faculty development on HIPs during the academic year. The aim of the project is for STEM faculty to use HIPs in their teaching of mathematics and chemistry courses to improve students' academic performance and retention rates. Air pollution will serve as an overarching theme for the content platform which will be used to enhance the pedagogy in both mathematics and chemistry courses. This project has potential to significantly impact the retention and graduation rates students in the collaborating HSIs, and increase the numbers of underrepresented students in STEM. The project will be led by three HSIs with a focus on faculty development, including part-time faculty and adjunct faculty, to improve their teaching practice in ways that will improve student achievement, retention, and motivation. Each of the three collaborating institutions will focus on STEM disciplines that present the greatest challenges for their students. CSU Bakersfield will focus on Chemistry, CSU Stanislaus will focus on mathematics, and CSU Fresno will focus on mathematics and chemistry. A team of social science and STEM researchers will lead the project to assess the how the Ideas Labs retreat and FLP better equip STEM faculty to employ HIPs in their pedagogy to enhance student learning. In particular, the project will assess the impact on how the Ideas Labs and FLP improve the persistence and success of the Hispanic, first generation, and/or low-income students in lower-division STEM courses. Project findings seek to represent impact on a large, diverse group of students at the three collaborating HSIs to generate new knowledge on how both new and current HIPs on lead to a more equitable STEM learning experience. The new HIPs designed through the Ideas Lab will be disseminated and shared broadly through various modalities, including presentations at conferences and CSU system meetings and also a project website. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善本科 STEM 教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI 计划）的支持下，该轨道 1 项目旨在设计、交付和测试加利福尼亚州立大学下属的三个西班牙裔服务机构的 STEM 教学新实践圣华金谷 (CSU) 系统：CSU 斯坦尼斯劳斯、CSU 弗雷斯诺和 CSU 贝克斯菲尔德。该项目将为 STEM 教师开发并提供创新的暑期静修中心，称为创意实验室 (Ideas Labs)，让他们参与一种新颖的协作流程，使用明确的创造性问题解决 (CPS) 方法来适应和开发高影响力实践 (HIP)。该项目将增强每个机构的教师学习计划 (FLP) 在学年期间为教师提供 HIP 发展。该项目的目标是让 STEM 教师在数学和化学课程教学中使用 HIP，以提高学生的学业成绩和保留率。空气污染将作为内容平台的首要主题，用于加强数学和化学课程的教学。该项目有可能显着影响合作 HSI 中学生的保留率和毕业率，并增加 STEM 中代表性不足的学生数量。该项目将由三个 HSI 领导，重点关注教师发展，包括兼职教师和兼职教师，以提高学生成绩、保留率和动力的方式改进他们的教学实践。三个合作机构都将重点关注给学生带来最大挑战的 STEM 学科。科罗拉多州立大学贝克斯菲尔德分校将专注于化学，科罗拉多州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯分校将专注于数学，科罗拉多州立大学弗雷斯诺分校将专注于数学和化学。由社会科学和 STEM 研究人员组成的团队将领导该项目，评估 Ideas Labs 撤退和 FLP 如何更好地帮助 STEM 教师在教学中使用 HIP 来提高学生的学习。特别是，该项目将评估创意实验室和 FLP 如何提高西班牙裔、第一代和/或低收入学生在低年级 STEM 课程中的坚持和成功的影响。项目研究结果旨在体现对三个合作 HSI 的大量多元化学生的影响，以产生关于新的和当前的 HIP 如何带来更公平的 STEM 学习体验的新知识。通过创意实验室设计的新 HIP 将通过各种方式广泛传播和共享，包括在会议和 CSU 系统会议上的演示以及项目网站。 HSI 计划旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育并建设 HSI 的能力。 HSI 计划支持的项目还将产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。