Catalyst Project: Broadening Participation Research for College Algebra Teachers

催化剂项目：扩大大学代数教师的参与研究

• 批准号: 2108896
• 负责人: Reginald Hopkins
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: Virginia State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2108896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyst; Project; Broadening; Participation; Research

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) 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. Virginia State University, in collaboration with Dillard University, proposes to develop mathematical concepts in language, literacy, and discourse as a means of increasing accessibility to College Algebra. Specifically, the project seeks to incorporate aspects of the Algebra Project’s approach to content and pedagogy into experimental sections of College Algebra. The Algebra Project’s emphasis on shared concrete events and student discourse distinguishes this approach from the conventional structure of college math courses.This project seeks to broaden participation in STEM by addressing an underlying issue in the College Algebra to Calculus Transition. This project aims to produce an experimental College Algebra course based upon the mathematics content and pedagogy developed over the past twenty years within the Algebra Project. This thematic reconstruction of College Algebra – based upon the Algebra Project’s experiential learning model – holds the promise of deepening student understanding of College Algebra and simultaneously providing a conceptual and procedural foundation for the study of Calculus and the quantitative sciences that depend upon it for student populations that traditionally have not had access to this course of study.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.

催化剂项目为历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 提供支持，致力于建立教师的研究能力，以加强科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 本科教育和研究。预计该奖项将进一步促进教师的发展。弗吉尼亚州立大学与迪拉德大学合作，提议发展语言、读写能力和话语方面的数学概念，作为提高大学入学机会的一种手段。具体来说，该项目旨在将代数项目的内容和教学法的各个方面纳入大学代数的实验部分。代数项目强调共享具体事件和学生话语，这将这种方法与大学数学课程的传统结构区分开来。该项目旨在通过解决大学代数向微积分过渡的根本问题来扩大对 STEM 的参与。该项目旨在根据过去 20 年来开发的数学内容和教学法制作实验性大学代数课程。大学代数的主题重建基于代数项目的体验式学习模型，有望加深学生对大学代数的理解，同时为微积分和定量科学的研究提供概念和程序基础。传统上无法获得该课程学习机会的学生群体依赖于该奖项。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。