HSI Pilot Project: San Antonio College’s Campeones de STEM

HSI 试点项目：圣安东尼奥学院的 Campeones de STEM

• 批准号: 2225542
• 负责人: Jianxia Zhang
• 金额: $ 18.18万
• 依托单位: San Antonio 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: 2022-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225542&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; San; Antonio

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 Pilot Project aims to enhance college student recruitment, participation, and course retention in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-focused courses through the development of mentorship opportunities and scholarships. The project will be critical for meeting and fulfilling exponential demands in high-demand, high paying STEM related jobs in the greater San Antonio area and the national region. Importantly, given that persistent racial and ethnic inequality in STEM degree attainment, with lower persistence rates of Hispanic, and low-income STEM majors, it is timely to address STEM-related awareness gaps in secondary-to-higher education and transition to college. To solve these problems, our project will provide leadership opportunities to first-year students, with training from industry and academic experts on STEM-knowledge dissemination strategies to focused target audiences namely, secondary school children from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Our project goals will include the establishment of a San Antonio College (SAC) Campeones de STEM Academy, a two-day institute designed to invigorate and enhance SAC’s existing STEM programs.The principal goal of Campeones de STEM initiative is to improve student participation and course retention in STEM courses at SAC, while enriching secondary STEM education at a target middle school. The project will provide scholarships to selected STEM major students currently enrolled in their first year at the college. This opportunity will pair these selected Campeones de STEM participants with selected general science courses at an inner-city middle school in SAC’s service-area. Project activities include on- and off-site events, such as visits with local and renowned STEM leaders, hands-on science experiments, and field trips to local STEM centers and museums as well as a tour of the SAC STEM departments, classrooms, and laboratories. Expected outcomes include increased student retention in STEM courses and significantly greater involvement of secondary school children in STEM education. Our project aims will investigate the following research questions: 1) Does SAC’s Campeones de STEM Academy significantly improve STEM awareness, and thereby, course participation, persistence, and PGR in first-year college students? 2) Is STEM outreach to secondary education students effective in improving interest in the STEM fields? and 3) Do informal STEM-related activities, including hands-on science experiments designed by college STEM faculty, and mentoring improve role model-based peer-learning endeavors in STEM and result in an incremental increase in STEM course participation and retention in first-year college students? Research methodologies used to asses these questions will include specified metrics compiled from quantitative and qualitative data. Expected results include an increase in general awareness and interest in the STEM fields for both secondary middle school students and first-year college students, higher rates of persistence, productive grade rate (PGR), and course completion for the SAC participants, and the development of the secondary school students’ STEM-related skills through informal educational activities and mentorship. Apart from improved academic merits, this project has potential for broader impacts at a societal-level via its peer-to-peer learning and leadership roles. This project is informed via intentional intervention strategies, such as exposure to STEM-focused content, interactions with the local area, STEM leaders, scholarship driven mentoring programs, and peer-to-peer opportunities with resource-poor setting populations in their schools. Importantly, Campeones de STEM project will also form the basis for a track 2 cross-institutional, community program to improve enrollment and retention rates in the STEM fields. 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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1试点项目旨在通过发展精神运输机会和科学的发展，以增强大学生招聘，参与和课程保留 - 技术，工程和数学（STEM） - 专注于专注的课程。该项目对于在更大的圣安东尼奥地区和国家地区的高需求，高薪与STEM相关的工作中满足和满足指数级的需求至关重要。重要的是，鉴于STEM程度属性的持续种族和种族不平等，西班牙裔和低收入STEM专业的持久性率较低，因此及时解决与STEM相关的意识差距，以中学到高级教育和到大学过渡。为了解决这些问题，我们的项目将为一年级学生提供领导机会，从行业和学术专家进行有关STEM知识传播策略的培训，以集中目标受众，即来自类似社会经济背景的中学儿童。我们的项目目标将包括建立圣安东尼奥学院（SAC）Campeones de Stem Academy，这是一个为期两天的研究所，旨在激发和增强SAC现有的STEM计划。Campeones de STEM De STEM主动性的主要目标是改善学生参与和在SAC的STEM课程中保持STEM课程，同时在目标中学中的STEM Partets Middary Parget Middled School中富含STEM STEM教育。该项目将为当前在大学第一年入学的选定的STEM学生提供教育。这个机会将把这些选定的Campeones de stem参与者与SAC服务区的一所城市中学中的一般科学课程相结合。项目活动包括现场活动和现场活动，例如与当地和著名的STEM领导者访问，动手科学实验以及前往当地STEM中心和博物馆的实地考察以及SAC STEM部门，教室和实验室的参观。预期的结果包括增加的学生在STEM课程中的保留以及中学儿童参与STEM教育的更多参与。我们的项目目标将调查以下研究问题：1）SAC的Campeones de stem Academy是否会显着提高STEM意识，从而在一年级大学生中进行课程参与，持久性和PGR？ 2）STEM向中学教育学生有效地提高对STEM领域的兴趣有效吗？ 3）非正式的与STEM相关的活动，包括大学STEM教师设计的动手科学实验，以及在STEM中改善基于榜样的同伴学习努力，并导致STEM课程参与和一年级大学生的保留率增加？用于评估这些问题的研究方法将包括根据定量和定性数据编制的指定指标。预期的结果包括提高中学中学生和一年级大学生对STEM领域的普遍意识和兴趣，持久性，产品等级（PGR）以及SAC参与者的课程完成，以及通过非正式的教育活动和心理的发展中学学生与STEM与STEM相关的技能的发展。除了提高学术优点外，该项目还通过其点对点学习和领导角色在社会水平上产生更广泛的影响。该项目通过有意的干预策略进行告知，例如接触以STEM为中心的内容，与当地的互动，STEM领导者，奖学金驱动的指导计划以及在学校的资源设定人群中的点对点机会。重要的是，Campeones de STEM项目还将成为轨道2跨机构社区计划的基础，以提高STEM领域的入学率和保留率。 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。