Combing Andragogy and Pedagogy to Help First Generation, Low Income Students Succeed in Engineering

结合安德拉学和教育学，帮助第一代低收入学生在工程领域取得成功

• 批准号: 1953466
• 负责人: Patricia Sullivan
• 金额: $ 238.25万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Combing; Andragogy; Pedagogy; Help; First

Using Methods and Principles of Adult Learning to Help First-Generation, Low-Income Students Succeed in Engineering With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Innovative Cross-Sector Partnership project aims to foster upward social mobility by improving the rate at which first-generation students from low-income families graduate with an engineering degree. Persistently low graduation rates lessen the impact that universities play in facilitating social mobility. Hispanic Serving Institutions are well-equipped to improve access to college opportunities for first generation students, students from underrepresented groups, and students from low-income families, but often struggle to make math, science, and engineering curriculums relevant. Current engineering education practice does not adequately engage with industry to give students professional motivation, skills, and certifications. This leaves many low-income, first- generation students uncertain as to how their education relates to their current and future economic security. Less than half of engineering majors finish with engineering degrees that would qualify them for high paying jobs and technical careers. This project will focus on mentoring, career readiness, industry-accepted certifications to augment the engineering curriculum through engagement in flexible learning communities. Industry partnerships, innovative intervention strategies, and research findings will be used to foster STEM-identity and student’s understanding, appreciation and interest in STEM, known indicators for first-generation STEM degree completion. Anticipated outcomes of the project include an engaged community of career-ready advanced student learners supported by evidence-based intervention strategies, industry partners, and university faculty and staff prepared to contribute to their success. Approximately 800 students will be directly supported in the industry-mentored, adult learning experiences. The 5-year goal is to increase the graduation rate in engineering for first-generation college students and those from low-income households by 50%. The innovative partnership with industry to prepare students and help them acquire certifications will show first generation students and their families that real-world skills are valued by the university, and that they are achieving important milestones each year of their higher education (not just at the end). Higher (engineering) education in the US is being pulled in different directions to balance critical, reflective, and deep thinkers while providing tangible skills. By acknowledging this tension and building curriculum maps that intentionally blend the two directions, this project and partnerships will promote a new path to satisfying societal needs based on the unique attributes of Hispanic Serving Institutions. The project will test how andragogical (adult) learning methods, implemented in collaboration with industry, is linked to persistence within a traditional engineering curriculum at a majority-minority Hispanic Serving Institution. This study will follow students longitudinally to investigate how cross-sector collaborations influence educational outcomes and occupational success. Surveys will be used to investigate how activities that balance and blend andragogy and pedagogy contribute to student persistence by promoting the growth of engineering identity and professional confidence. Early results from the research will be used to integrate adult and industry-mentored learning into materials such as curriculum maps, catalog descriptions, websites, and student advising software. Continuous assessment of the outcomes will contribute to engineering education knowledge and stimulate discussion on how institutions can utilize learning communities and industry partnerships to improve the retention and subsequent social mobility for first generation, low income students. In addition to publications and conferences, project generated resources and findings will be dissemination through the HSI Resource Hub, a network of more than 450 HSIs, including those that receive little or no prior NSF support. 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.

低收入学生使用成人学习的方法和原理来帮助第一代学生，在改善本科STEM教育的支持下成功地进行了工程学：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该创新的跨部门伙伴关系项目旨在促进与低收入学生的第一本一代学生通过在哪些第一年生产学位的学生来促进上升的社会流动性，以促进上升的社会流动性。持续较低的毕业率降低了大学对促进社会流动性的影响。西班牙裔服务机构具有良好的能力，可以改善获得第一代学生的大学机会，来自代表性不足的团体的学生以及来自低收入家庭的学生，但经常努力使数学，科学和工程流程相关。当前的工程教育实践并不能充分与行业互动，以使学生提供专业的动力，技能和认证。这使许多低收入的第一代学生不确定他们的教育与他们当前和未来的经济安全之间的关系。不到一半的工程专业的工程学位可以使他们获得高薪工作和技术职业的资格。该项目将专注于心理，职业准备，受行业所接受的认证，以通过参与灵活的学习社区来增强工程课程。行业合作伙伴关系，创新干预策略和研究结果将用于促进STEM认同和学生对STEM的理解，欣赏和兴趣，这是第一代STEM完成学位的已知指标。该项目的抗后果包括一个由职业准备就绪的高级学生学习者组成的社区，这些社区得到了基于证据的干预策略，行业合作伙伴以及准备为他们的成功做出贡献的教职员工的支持。大约有800名学生将在行业授权的成人学习经验中得到支持。 5年的目标是将第一代大学生和低收入家庭的工程毕业率提高50％。与行业的创新合作伙伴关系为学生做好准备并帮助他们获得认证，将向第一代学生及其家人展示现实世界中的技能受到大学的评价，并且他们每年都在高等教育的每年取得重要的里程碑（不仅在最后）。在美国，正在朝着不同的方向提高（工程）教育，以平衡关键，反思和深层思想的人，同时提供切实的技能。通过承认有意融合两个方向的这种紧张和建立课程图，该项目和合作伙伴关系将根据西班牙裔服务机构的独特属性来促进满足社会需求的新途径。该项目将测试与行业合作实施的雄激素（成人）学习方法如何与多数少数西班牙裔服务机构的传统工程课程中的持久性联系在一起。这项研究将跟随学生纵向研究，以研究跨部门的合作如何影响教育成果和职业成功。调查将用于研究如何通过促进工程认同和专业信心的增长来平衡和融合雄激素和教学法的活动。该研究的早期结果将用于将成人和行业授权的学习整合到诸如课程图，目录描述，网站和学生咨询软件之类的材料中。对成果的持续评估将有助于工程教育知识，并激发有关机构如何利用学习社区和行业伙伴关系来改善第一代低收入学生的保留和随后的社会流动性的讨论。除出版物和会议外，项目生成的资源和发现还将通过HSI Resource Hub传播，HSI Resource Hub是一个超过450个HSI的网络，包括几乎没有或根本没有的NSF支持的网络。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来通过评估来诚实地获得支持。

项目成果

Engineering Education Enrichment (e3) Initiative: A Co-Curricular Program Intended to Improve Persistence and Career Success for Low-Income and First-Generation Engineering Students

工程教育强化 (e3) 计划：旨在提高低收入和第一代工程学生的毅力和职业成功的课外项目

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42061
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Conferences
• 作者: Huvard, Hannah;Bayat, Hengameh;Way, Sandra;Brewer, Catherine;Miller, Addison;Garcia, Antonio
• 通讯作者: Garcia, Antonio

Toward an Understanding of the Relationship Between Race/Ethnicity, Gender, First-generation Student Status, and Engineering Identity at Hispanic-serving Institutions

了解拉美裔服务机构的种族/民族、性别、第一代学生身份和工程身份之间的关系

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference proceedings
• 作者: Arnett, Stephanie M.;Way, Sandra M.;Ortiz, David G.;Humble, Lorissa B.B.;Martinez, Analyssa D.
• 通讯作者: Martinez, Analyssa D.