CAREER: Second Chance STEM: Uncovering school policies structuring access to and engagement in high school STEM credit recovery

职业：第二次机会 STEM：揭示学校政策，构建高中 STEM 学分恢复的获取和参与

• 批准号: 2237703
• 负责人: Samantha Viano
• 金额: $ 104.46万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2028-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2237703&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Second; Chance; STEM; Uncovering; CAREER; Second; Chance; STEM; Uncovering

Online STEM credit courses have become attractive to school leaders as a way to support students who fail STEM courses in face-to-face school year settings. However, there is little research about the processes involved in how schools make decisions regarding student credit recovery. The available research focuses solely on student results and is not definitive enough to support important policy decisions at the district level. This research brings redress to this policy dilemma. The researcher will conduct three individual studies. The first study will be located in 14 schools in a large and demographically changing suburban school district. This work will be followed by a survey of optimal policy/practice combinations at the level of this particular district. Finally, results from the first two studies will support a national level survey using a representative sample from the RAND American School Leadership Panel. Results from the three studies will be interwoven to deliver a theoretical and empirical framework to support policy makers engaged in STEM credit recovery programs. Together the studies will integrate critical components of program success, cost, student engagement, and pedagogy. This is a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) project responsive to Program Solicitation NSF 22-586 and funded jointly by the Discovery Research PreK-12 program, which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches, and NSF's EDU Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad, and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.

在线STEM信用课程已对学校领导者有吸引力，以此作为支持在面对面学年设置中失败STEM课程的学生的一种方式。但是，关于学校如何做出有关学生信用恢复的决定的过程，几乎没有研究。可用的研究仅着重于学生的成绩，并且不足以支持地区一级重要的政策决策。这项研究带来了这一政策困境。研究人员将进行三项个人研究。第一项研究将位于一个大型且人口统计学变化的郊区学区的14所学校中。 这项工作将在该特定地区的水平上进行最佳政策/实践组合的调查。最后，前两项研究的结果将支持使用RAND American School Leadersition小组的代表性样本进行全国一级调查。这三项研究的结果将交织在一起，以提供一个理论和经验的框架，以支持从事STEM信用恢复计划的决策者。研究将共同​​整合计划成功，成本，学生参与和教学法的关键组成部分。这是一项教师早期职业发展计划（职业）项目，响应计划招标NSF 22-586，并由Discovery Research PreK-12计划共同资助，该计划旨在通过PreK-12学生和教师的STEM Innerof Innerov Innerov Innerov Innerov Innerof和NS的NS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NS FARS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和NSS和F. ECR计划强调了基本的STEM教育研究，该研究在该领域产生了基础知识。投资是在重要，广泛且持久的关键领域进行的：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大参与STEM和STEM劳动力发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来进行评估。