Inclusive Excellence in STEM: Addressing Inequities in Undergraduate Student Access and Achievement through Integration of STEM-Focused, Equity-Minded Pedagogy

STEM 的包容性卓越：通过整合以 STEM 为中心、注重公平的教学法，解决本科生入学和成就方面的不平等问题

基本信息

批准号：
2142377
负责人：
Kristen Hoffbuhr
金额：
$ 29.99万
依托单位：
Skagit Valley College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-02-01 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2142377&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Inclusive Excellence STEM Addressing Inequities

项目摘要

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This project aims to serve the national interest by addressing inequities in undergraduate STEM students’ access, learning, and degree completion. These inequities will be addressed in this project via three primary areas. First, the project seeks to increase use of inclusive, student-centered teaching practices. Second, the project seeks to implement high impact practices supporting STEM student engagement. Third, the project seeks to improve student access to STEM degrees by restructuring mathematics course pathways. The project will create and support equity-focused collaborative professional development groups for STEM faculty to increase faculty awareness of equity-mindedness. STEM faculty will implement and support inclusive teaching and high impact practices designed to improve student success and specifically address the needs of students from underrepresented STEM student populations. The project will increase student access to STEM degrees by developing innovative accelerated models for pre-college mathematics to improve student completion of mathematics prerequisites required for STEM degrees. This project aims to advance understanding of mechanisms and institutional reforms contributing to student success in STEM degree pathways at community colleges. It will also provide greater insight about factors contributing to meaningful and sustainable changes in STEM faculty teaching practices. Additionally, this project has potential to increase the impact of equity-focused teaching for improving underrepresented student success in STEM pathways.The project specifically addresses the needs of students from underrepresented STEM student populations, including racially minoritized, first-generation, low-income, and female students. The project will: 1) increase awareness and use of inclusive pedagogical practices by STEM faculty, 2) utilize high impact practices to address equity gaps in access and achievement in STEM degrees and improve student persistence and success in STEM courses and programs, and 3) increase student transition and success rates in calculus-based mathematics prerequisites. This project provides an opportunity to generate much needed knowledge for STEM educators at two-year institutions, including a greater understanding of the successful interventions for community college students, where aspiring STEM students are more likely to be academically unprepared, first-generation, older, working, and/or from underrepresented student groups. The broader impact of this project allows for a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms contributing to student success in STEM degree pathways. Focusing on the impact of culturally responsive, inclusive teaching approaches for student success within STEM, the project seeks to determine if implementation of culturally responsive and inclusive teaching approaches within introductory STEM courses, combined with high impact practices, peer mentoring, and undergraduate research experiences, result in improved outcomes for students, and especially students from underrepresented groups. The evaluation of the project’s overall success and progress towards outcomes will be based on the achievement of objectives, resulting in improved STEM student access, retention, and degree completion, curricular redesign and implementation, and a shift in faculty culture. The project asks the following research questions: 1) What activities result in changed beliefs and teaching practices within 2-year institutions and produce STEM departments more focused to address the needs of underrepresented STEM student populations? 2) What are the impacts of restructuring and accelerating pre-calculus math pathways to reduce structural barriers to STEM participation and promoting overall student access and success in STEM, including the participation and achievement of underrepresented STEM students? The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。该项目旨在通过解决本科生STEM学生的访问，学习和学位完成的不平等来满足国家利益。这些不平等将通过三个主要领域在该项目中解决。首先，该项目旨在增加对以学生为中心的教学实践的使用。其次，该项目旨在实施支持STEM学生参与的高影响力实践。第三，该项目旨在通过恢复数学课程途径来改善学生获得STEM学位的机会。该项目将创建并支持以股权为中心的协作专业发展小组，以提高教师对股权的意识。 STEM教师将实施和支持包容性教学和旨在提高学生成功的高影响力实践，并特别满足代表性不足的STEM学生人群的需求。该项目将通过开发用于大学前数学的创新加速模型来提高学生获得STEM学位的机会，以改善学生完成STEM学位所需的数学先决条件的完成。该项目旨在提高人们对社区大学茎学位途径成功的机制和机构改革的理解。它还将提供有关导致STEM教师教学实践有意义和可持续变化的因素的更深入的见解。此外，该项目有潜力增加以股票为中心的教学对改善代表性不足的STEM途径的影响的影响。该项目专门解决了代表性不足的STEM学生人群的需求，包括大约少数，第一代，低收入和女学生。该项目将：1）提高STEM教师对包容性教学实践的认识和使用，2）利用高影响力实践来解决STEM程度的访问和成就方面的公平差距，并改善学生的持久性和STEM课程和计划的成功，3）提高基于计算的基于计算的数学的学生过渡率和成功率。该项目提供了一个机会，可以为两年制机构的STEM教育者提供急需的知识，包括对社区大学生的成功干预措施有更深入的了解，在这些学生中，有抱负的STEM学生更有可能在学术上没有准备好，第一代，更老，工作和/或来自基本的演讲学生群体。该项目的更广泛的影响可以更好地理解有助于学生在STEM学位途径中成功的基本机制。该项目专注于在STEM中采用具有文化响应的，包容性的教学方法对学生成功的影响，该项目旨在确定在引言STEM课程中实施具有文化响应敏感的和包容性的教学方法，结合了高影响力实践，同伴心理的研究，以及本科生的研究经验，从而改善了学生，尤其是学生的成果，尤其是学生的成果。对项目的整体成功和取得成果的评估将基于目标的实现，从而改善了STEM学生的访问，保留和学位完成，当前的重新设计和实施以及教师文化的转变。该项目询问以下研究问题：1）哪些活动会导致2年制度内的信念和教学实践改变，并使STEM部门更加专注于满足代表性不足的STEM学生群体的需求？ 2）修复和加速估算前数学途径的影响是什么影响，以减少STEM参与的结构性障碍，并促进学生的整体访问和STEM的成功，包括参与和成就代表性不足的STEM学生？ NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持努力在高等教育和学科社区的机构中转变和改善STEM教育的努力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。