Collaborative Research: Evaluating Access: How a Multi-Institutional Network Promotes Equity and Cultural Change through Expanding Student Voice

合作研究：评估访问：多机构网络如何通过扩大学生的声音来促进公平和文化变革

• 批准号: 2309307
• 负责人: Scott Franklin
• 金额: $ 28.81万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Evaluating; Access; How

Addressing the critical issue of representation and equity in the physical sciences requires meaningful cultural change. The Access Network, founded in 2015, directly addresses this national priority by connecting institutions with student-led, equity-oriented programs to share and disseminate research-based strategies and provide support for overcoming common barriers. Through mentored intersite student cohorts and an annual Assembly, Access fosters community, develops student leaders, reinforces institutional memory, and provides a national context, all important factors for sustainability and scalability. At the Network’s core is a unique philosophy that recognizes and elevates students as drivers of change, recognizing them as powerful members of the STEM community and the future leaders of physics. An innovative evaluation partnership among external evaluators, educational research faculty within the network, and internal student evaluation fellows will document the network’s impacts on student leaders, local sites and individual departments. These activities combine a student-driven, community-based approach with the expertise of external evaluators, resulting in a more complete picture of the model.This work will directly support students in the Network, at individual institutions, and beyond by: (i) continuously improving Network activities that support the professional development and retention of junior scientists from diverse backgrounds, (ii) cultivating new student leaders, and (iii) growing a repository of materials and best practices that will increase the efficacy of local sites. It will advance knowledge of equity-focused change in the physical sciences and develop infrastructure for robust evaluation to document, understand, and promote Network aspects crucial to success. The novel evaluation partnership proposed among external evaluators, internal evaluation mentors, and student evaluation advance the conception of participatory evaluation and sets a model for programmatic evaluation. More effectively supporting sites in local evaluation enables their sustainability, as they can better understand and communicate their impacts to local stakeholders. Insights from evaluation activities not only result in a more complete picture of the Access Network model, informing improvements to the network, but also benefit others wishing to enact equity-focused cultural change in STEM. The knowledge about effective programs will be especially helpful for those enacting shared leadership models, expanding the critical role students can play in transforming communities.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.

解决物理科学中代表和公平的关键问题需要有意义的文化变革。成立于2015年的访问网络直接通过将机构与学生领导的面向股权的计划联系起来，以共享和传播基于研究的策略，并为克服普通障碍提供支持。通过受过指导的访谈学生队列和年度大会，访问社区，培养学生领导者，增强机构记忆，并提供国家背景，这是可持续性和可扩展性的所有重要因素。网络的核心是一种独特的哲学，它承认并提升了学生为变革的驱动力，并认为他们是STEM社区和未来物理领导者的强大成员。外部评估，网络中的教育研究学院以及内部学生评估研究员之间的创新评估合作伙伴关系将记录网络对学生领导者，本地站点和各个部门的影响。 These activities combine a student-driven, community-based approach with the expertise of external evaluaters, resulting in a more complete picture of the model.This work will directly support students in the Network, at individual institutions, and beyond by: (i) continuously improving Network activities that support the professional development and retention of junior scientists from divers backgrounds, (ii) cultivating new student leaders, and (iii) growing a repository of materials and best practices that will increase the efficiency of local站点。它将提高知识的知识，以股权为中心的变化和发展基础架构，以记录，理解和促进对成功至关重要的网络方面。在外部评估，内部评估导师和学生评估之间提出的新型评估伙伴关系推动了参与评估的概念，并为程序评估设置了模型。在本地评估中更有效地支持网站可以使其可持续性，因为他们可以更好地理解和传达其与当地利益相关者的影响。评估活动的见解不仅会对访问网络模型进行更完整的了解，从而为网络的改进提供了信息，而且还使希望实施以股权为中心的文化变革的其他人受益。关于有效计划的知识将对那些制定共同领导模式，扩大学生在改造社区中所扮演的关键作用的关键作用特别有用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响评估审查标准来评估，认为这是珍贵的支持。