Fostering Communities of Practice Through Research and Peer Mentoring

通过研究和同伴指导培育实践社区

• 批准号: 2247157
• 负责人: David Joiner
• 金额: $ 299.79万
• 依托单位: Kean 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: 2023-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247157&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fostering; Communities; Practice; Through; Research

This project aims to develop a national model for STEM education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions that engages all members of the university community. Central to this effort is the development of a “Scholars Academy,” a cohort-based program to support undergraduate students with peer mentoring, undergraduate research opportunities, and additional support. The academy is designed to improve undergraduate success, particularly for Hispanic students. The project will address a number of well documented challenges to undergraduate student success, including the fact that Hispanic STEM students persist in STEM at a lower rate than their non-Hispanic peers. Communities of Practice (CoPs) – groups of people who share a common concern and work and learn together – will be developed among students, faculty, and administrators to ensure longer term retention of students and create institutional transformation by sustaining best practices. Through this project, Kean will increase the number of faculty engaging in research with undergraduates, and who are also trained in culturally responsive mentoring. These practices are intended to increase student retention, job readiness, and improve participants' sense of belonging.Key to this Scholars Academy will be three CoPs fostered as part of the project activities. To foster these communities, activities will be implemented based on smaller programs already piloted in two academic units at Kean. The first such activity is to build a community of student scholars, and meet the needs of students during critical attrition points, by offering a STEM major-specific version of the "Transition to Kean” first-year seminar. First- and second-year courses with high D, F, and withdrawal (DFW) rates will be targeted for supplemental instruction using peer-mentoring and peer-led team learning. Secondly, students will engage in small faculty-led research teams using the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions’ (CAHSI) Affinity Research Group model, with progress over multiple years and mentoring by senior-level students. A third activity involves implementing signature practices from CAHSI and Kean’s Center for Teaching and Learning to provide a variety of faculty professional development experiences aimed at enhancing advising and faculty pedagogy. A fourth and final activity is to form a team of faculty and administrators who will participate in an institutional transformation CoP that will help the project iteratively improve and institutionalize key project components. Project research will generate new knowledge on the effectiveness of the project's main interventions and what mechanisms supported the persistence and institutionalization of specific practices. 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 that are supported by this program.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.

该项目旨在在西班牙裔服务机构中开发一个国家的STEM教育模型，该模型吸引了大学社区的所有成员。这项工作的核心是开发“学者学院”，这是一项基于同龄人的本科生，具有同伴心理，本科研究机会和额外支持的课程。该学院旨在提高本科生的成功，特别是对于西班牙裔学生。该项目将针对本科生成功的许多有据可查的挑战，包括西班牙裔STEM学生以比非西班牙裔同龄人低的速度持续存在。实践社区（COP） - 共同关注，工作和学习的人群 - 将在学生，教职员工和管理人员之间发展，以确保学生长期保留学生并通过维持最佳实践来建立机构转型。通过这个项目，基恩（Kean）将增加与本科生一起研究的教师数量，并接受文化反应灵敏的心理培训。这些实践旨在提高学生的保留率，工作准备和提高参与者的归属感。该学者学院的关键将是在项目活动的一部分中培养的三名警察。为了培养这些社区，将根据已经在基恩的两个学术单位试行的较小计划来实施活动。这样的第一个活动是通过提供“过渡到基恩”一年级精神探索的STEM主要版本，以建立一个学生学者社区，并在关键属性点期间满足学生的需求。 D，F和撤回（DFW）的第一年和二年级课程将用于使用同行和同伴领导的团队学习的补充指导。其次，学生将使用西班牙裔服务机构（CAHSI）亲和力研究小组模型的计算联盟参与小型教师领导的研究团队，并取得了多年的进步和高级学生的心理。第三项活动涉及从CAHSI和Kean的教学中心实施签名实践，以提供各种旨在增强咨询和教师教学法的教师专业发展经验。第四个也是最后一个活动是组成一个由教职员工和管理人员组成的团队，他们将参加机构转型COP，该公司将有助于该项目迭代地改进并制度化关键项目组成部分。项目研究将为项目主要干预措施的有效性以及哪些机制支持特定实践的持久性和制度化。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大参与STEM并在HSIS建立能力。鉴于HSI的多样性和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法，以增加机构和社区的转型，并促进对参与学生学习的基础研究（i）（ii）（ii），（ii）关于有效地使STEM参与和（iii）提高我们对HSIS的统治能力的理解，并提高其统计能力的理解，并提高了该计划的理解。诚实地通过评估来诚实地使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Using Unity for Scientific Visualization as a Coursebased Undergraduate Research Experience

使用 Unity 进行科学可视化作为基于课程的本科生研究体验

• DOI: 10.22369/issn.2153-4136/15/1/7
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: The Journal of Computational Science Education
• 作者: Adeniji, Idunnuoluwa;Casarona, Michael;Bielory, Leonard;Bancairen, Lark;Menzel, Melissa;Perigo, Nan;Blackmon, Cymantha;Niepielko, Matthew G.;Insley, Joseph;Joiner, David
• 通讯作者: Joiner, David