Pathway to STEM Success: Improving Access and Success and Closing Equity Gaps in College-level Math in a State Community College System

STEM 成功之路：提高州立社区学院系统中大学数学的入学机会和成功率并缩小公平差距

• 批准号: 2228202
• 负责人: Di Xu
• 金额: $ 196.94万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pathway; STEM; Success; Improving; Access

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the success rates of community college students in gateway mathematics courses and contributing to the knowledge base on effective practices which support that success. Recognizing the limitations of current developmental education approaches to fostering student success in mathematics, the research and practice partnership (RPP) team of researchers and practitioners from the University of California – Irvine, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), and the University of Delaware plan to investigate a VCCS initiative designed to reform the support to students who come from high schools that did not prepare them adequately for college. While current reforms focus on one element of developmental education, the RPP effort under study is implementing a more comprehensive approach to support these students as they progress through gateway mathematics. The VCCS initiative includes three components, identifying students who need support, providing concurrent academic support through co-requisite coursework, and providing proactive advising and coaching. Three studies will examine the effects of this effort: (1) a Reform Implementation Study to document how the reform is implemented at each institution and challenges encountered; (2) a Reform Impact Study to examine the impact of the reform on student gateway math outcomes, as well as downstream STEM pathway success and distal outcomes including degree attainment and labor market performance; and (3) a Math Instruction Study to explore whether specific ways of delivering the co-requisite support and teaching approaches are associated with better student outcomes and smaller racial gaps in gateway mathematics. The RPP also plans to examine how colleges responded to challenges presented by the ongoing COVID pandemic when implementing the reform, whether these changes will persist into the foreseeable future, and what teaching practices are effective in promoting math success by course delivery format. The mixed methods research design is well aligned with project goals, research methodologies, and analyses. The RPP team will collect data through surveys, targeted interviews, and administrative data ans plans to apply a comprehensive developmental education framework to analyze and interpret the data. The results will be used to inform the Direct Enrollment Reform at VCCS and should generate knowledge that other institutions may use to inform their efforts to improve student success, particularly when entry into and completion of gateway mathematics courses pose challenges. The NSF program description on Advancing Innovation and Impact in Undergraduate STEM Education at Two-year Institutions of Higher Education supports projects that advance STEM education initiatives at two-year colleges. The program description promotes innovative and evidence-based practices in undergraduate STEM education at two-year colleges. This project is also supported b the NSF IUSE-HSI program, which has the goals of enhancing the quality of undergraduate STEM education, and increasing the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associate’s or baccalaureate degrees in STEM.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.

该项目旨在通过提高网关数学课程中社区大学生的成功率来为国家利益提供服务，并为支持成功的有效实践的知识基础做出贡献。认识到正在促进学生在数学方面取得成功的当前发展教育方法的局限性，研究与实践伙伴关系（RPP）研究人员和加利福尼亚大学的研究人员和实践者团队 - 欧文大学，弗吉尼亚州社区学院系统（VCCS）以及特拉华大学，旨在调整旨在改革高中生的VCC计划的计划，这些计划是为了改革他们准备的，这些学生没有准备好这些旨在改革他们为他们提供批准的学生的支持。尽管当前的改革集中于发展教育的一个要素，但正在研究的RPP努力正在实施一种更全面的方法来支持这些学生通过网关数学进展。 VCC倡议包括三个组成部分，确定需要支持的学生，通过共同条件课程以及提供积极主动的建议和教练提供同时的学术支持。三项研究将研究这项工作的影响：（1）一项改革实施研究，以记录如何在每个机构实施改革以及遇到的挑战； （2）一项改革影响研究，以研究改革对学生门户数学成果的影响，以及下游STEM途径的成功和远端成果包括学位吸引力和劳动力市场表现； （3）一项数学指导研究，以探讨提供共同条件支持和教学方法的特定方法是否与更好的学生成果和网关数学中较小的赛车差距有关。 RPP还计划研究大学在实施改革时持续的共同大流行所带来的挑战，这些变化是否会持续到可预见的未来，以及哪些教学实践有效地通过课程交付格式促进数学成功。混合方法研究设计与项目目标，研究方法和分析非常一致。 RPP团队将通过调查，有针对性的访谈和行政数据收集数据，ANS计划应用一个全面的发展教育框架来分析和解释数据。结果将用于告知VCC的直接入学改革，并应产生知识，即其他机构可能会用来告知他们为改善学生成功的努力，尤其是在进入和完成Gateway数学课程时会带来挑战。 NSF计划在为期两年的高等教育支持项目中推进本科STEM教育的创新和影响的NSF计划描述，这些项目推动了两年学院的STEM教育计划。该计划描述促进了两年年级大学的本科STEM教育的创新和循证实践。该项目还得到了NSF IUSE-HSI计划的支持，该计划的目标是提高本科STEM教育的质量，并提高招聘，求职学生或学士学位的学生的招聘，保留和毕业率，这是NSF法定任务的奖项，并反映了通过评估的构成群体的范围，该奖项反映了构成群体的构成群体的范围。