Broadening Participation Research Project: Investigating the Efficacy of Data Science for Environmental Justice based PBL Modules for Improving Diversity in Environmental Science

扩大参与研究项目：调查数据科学对环境正义的有效性，基于 PBL 模块以提高环境科学的多样性

• 批准号: 2306658
• 负责人: Ravanasamudram Uma
• 金额: $ 34.91万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Central University
• 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: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306658&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Project; Investigating

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. This project at North Carolina Central University (NC Central) is a collaborative project between computer science and environmental science faculty at NC Central, social science researchers at Cynosure Consulting, and geography and biology faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This project aligns with the goals of HBCU-UP in its effort to provide support for research that seeks to create and study new theory-driven models and innovations related to the participation and success of underrepresented groups in STEM undergraduate education. The project at NC Central will conduct research on the impact of introducing social justice-based environmental science project-based learning (PBL) modules on student interest in environmental science and the declaration of majors. The goal of this project is to increase the participation in environmental science, one of the least diverse STEM fields, among students from historically marginalized communities. The project innovation will be incorporated within an existing gateway course at NC Central University (ENSC 1000: Introduction to Sustainable Planet) by introducing data science for environmental justice project-based learning (DSEJ-PBL) modules. This project will study whether and how the innovation increases interest in environmental science using a mixed-methods approach to measure the efficacy of the innovation and its impacts on participants, and to provide insight into how the innovation produces changes in student beliefs, choices, and actions. The website that will be created through this project will host a repository of detailed DSEJ-PBL modules and associated tutorials and instructor materials. The research results from this project will be disseminated to the STEM and Education academic communities through presentations at seminars and conferences and publications in journals.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.

历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 - 本科课程（HBCU -UP）为加强HBCUS的STEM本科教育和研究提供了支持。该项目位于北卡罗来纳州中央大学（NC Central）是一个合作项目，该项目是计算机科学与北卡罗来纳州中央环境科学学院，Cynosure Consulting的社会科学研究人员，以及伍斯特理工学院的地理和生物学教师。该项目与HBCU-UP的目标相吻合，以为研究提供和研究与代表性不足的群体在STEM本科教育中的参与和成功相关的新的研究模型和创新。 NC Central项目将对基于社会正义的环境科学项目学习（PBL）模块对学生对环境科学和专业宣言的兴趣的影响进行研究。该项目的目的是增加参与历史上边缘化社区的学生中各种茎领域之一的环境科学之一。 该项目创新将通过引入基于环境正义项目的数据科学（DSEJ-PBL）模块的数据科学来纳入NC Central University的现有门户课程（ENSC 1000：可持续行星概论）。该项目将使用混合方法的方法来研究创新是否以及如何增加对环境科学的兴趣，以衡量创新及其对参与者的影响，并提供有关创新如何产生学生信仰，选择和行动的变化的见解。将通过此项目创建的网站将托管详细的DSEJ-PBL模块以及相关教程和讲师材料的存储库。该项目的研究结果将通过在期刊上的研讨会，会议和出版物上的演讲来传播到STEM和教育学术社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子的评估来支持的，并具有更广泛的影响。