Catalyst Award: Enhancing STEM education and recruitment through hands-on learning

催化剂奖：通过实践学习加强 STEM 教育和招聘

• 批准号: 2011819
• 负责人: Zhiming Yang
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Central 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: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyst; Award; Enhancing; STEM; education

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics undergraduate education and research. It is expected that the award will further the faculty member's research capability, improve research and teaching at the institution. and involve undergraduate students in research experiences. This project at North Carolina Central University is designed to increase the enrollment in the undergraduate Environmental Geographic Science Program. Hands-on learning is expected to increase the retention rate and enrollment in the program. The goal of this project is to enhance STEM education and recruitment at NCCU by implementing hands-on learning, thereby contributing to increase the enrollment in the B.S. Environmental Geographic Science program (EEGS) at NCCU. In this project, the following activities will be conducted: 1) Develop and implement hands-on labs for two existing courses including GEOG2100 Physical Geography and ENSC2100 Global Environmental Sustainability; 2) Develop two new environmental science courses: ENSC2600 Environmental Science and ENSC 2700 Environmental Education and Outreach with significant number of hands-on labs; 3) Extend hand-on labs to students from high schools for the recruitment of STEM majors. Handheld instruments and devices will be acquired to establish a quality teaching facility and allow faculty to implement hands-on learning and to extend hands-on learning to students from high schools. It is expected that there will be a significant improvement in student performance and mastery of concepts in two existing STEM courses. There also will be an increase in the retention rate and enrollment of EEGS program at NCCU. The methods developed in this project could be extended to many other STEM courses to enhance STEM education at Minority institutions.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.

催化剂项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学提供了支持，以建立教师的研究能力，以增强科学，技术，工程和数学本科教育和研究。可以预期，该奖项将进一步进一步改善教职员工的研究能力，改善该机构的研究和教学。并让本科生参与研究经验。北卡罗来纳州中央大学的该项目旨在增加本科环境地理科学计划的入学率。动手学习有望提高该计划的保留率和入学率。 该项目的目的是通过实施动手学习来增强NCCU的STEM教育和招聘，从而增加B.S.的入学人数。 NCCU的环境地理科学计划（EEGS）。在该项目中，将进行以下活动：1）开发和实施实验室实验室，用于两种现有课程，包括GEOG2100物理地理和ENSC2100全球环境可持续性； 2）开发两个新的环境科学课程：ENSC2600环境科学和ENSC 2700环境教育和外展活动，并拥有大量的动手实验室； 3）向高中学生扩展手工实验室，以招募STEM专业。将获得手持仪器和设备，以建立高质量的教学设施，并允许教师实施动手学习，并将动手学习扩展到来自高中的学生。可以预期，在两个现有的STEM课程中，学生的表现会有所改善和掌握概念的掌握。 NCCU的脑电图计划的保留率和入学率也将增加。该项目中开发的方法可以扩展到许多其他STEM课程，以增强少数族裔机构的STEM教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。