Promoting Student Engagement and Success through Assistive Technology

通过辅助技术促进学生的参与和成功

• 批准号: 2225203
• 负责人: Li Liu
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: The University Corporation, Northridge
• 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: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225203&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Promoting; Student; Engagement; Success; through

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-¬Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Pilot (Track 1) project aims to engage students at California State University Northridge in project-based learning centered on assistive technologies (ATs). Approximately 25% of adults in the United States live with a disability, and ATs play an important role accommodating people with disabilities in different environments, including in education, employment and independent living. Research has shown that people with disabilities from minority populations are less likely to have access to AT and are more likely to report unmet AT needs. Additionally, students are often unaware of the many rewarding career opportunities in this field. Through a new undergraduate senior design track this project will support students’ development of a strong professional identity and motivation to pursue a STEM career, particularly in careers at the human-technology frontier. Students will have multiple opportunities to learn from professionals in AT careers and will build empathy through several experiences designed to help them understand the realities, strengths, and challenges of disabled citizens. Faculty will engage in professional development throughout the project, which will allow them to incorporate project-based learning in their classrooms and enrich the experiences of their students. Assistive technology is highly interdisciplinary and requires experience working with a team of professionals. The project provides student-centered, project-based, and personalized experiential learning and interdisciplinary-based professional development to improve the success of minority students in STEM. Specifically, this project will: 1) build a support system for underrepresented students in STEM; 2) provide an authentic learning experience through tailored activities; 3) increase institutional capacity to create a culturally-sensitive learning environment and interdisciplinary STEM curriculum; 4) forge connections between students and employers; and 5) advance students who are underrepresented in their participation in STEM toward higher levels of academic achievement. The project’s impact is broadened by involving service providers and industry representatives in education activities. Project evaluation will draw from surveys and focus groups to explore impacts on students and teachers, including how participation influences students’ sense of belonging, STEM identity, and technical knowledge. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to 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，该试点（轨道 1）项目旨在让加州州立大学北岭分校的学生参与以辅助技术 (AT) 为中心的基于项目的学习，大约 25 个。美国 % 的成年人患有残疾，AT 在不同环境中为残疾人提供便利，包括在教育、就业和独立生活方面发挥着重要作用。 研究表明，来自少数群体的残疾人。此外，学生往往不知道该领域有许多有价值的职业机会，该项目将支持学生的发展。强烈的职业认同和追求 STEM 职业的动力，特别是在人类技术前沿的职业中，学生将有多种机会向 AT 职业的专业人士学习，并通过旨在帮助他们了解现实和优势的多种经验建立同理心。和残疾公民的挑战。教师将在整个过程中参与专业发展。项目，这将使他们能够将基于项目的学习融入课堂并丰富学生的经验。辅助技术是高度跨学科的，需要与专业团队合作的经验。该项目提供以学生为中心、基于项目的和个性化的体验式学习和跨学科的专业发展，以提高少数族裔学生在 STEM 领域的成功，具体来说，该项目将：1) 为 STEM 领域代表性不足的学生建立一个支持系统；2) 通过量身定制的活动提供真实的学习体验；提高机构能力创造一个文化敏感的学习环境和跨学科的 STEM 课程；4）在学生和雇主之间建立联系；5）促进参与 STEM 的学生取得更高水平的学术成就。项目评估将通过调查和焦点小组来探讨对学生和教师的影响，包括参与如何影响学生的归属感、STEM 认同和技术知识。 HSI 计划旨在提高本科生 STEM 水平。教育，鉴于 HSI 的多样性和背景，扩大 STEM 的参与并建设 HSI 的能力，需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区转型并促进 (i) 关于学生参与学习的基础研究，(ii) 关于 HSI 的基础研究。 (iii) 提高我们对如何建设 HSI 机构能力的理解 HSI 计划支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以产生有关如何实现这一目标的新知识。这些目标。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。