HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: SedimentSketch, teaching tool in and beyond the sedimentology classroom to provide equitable and inclusive learning for Hispanic students

HSI 实施和评估项目：SedimentSketch，沉积学课堂内外的教学工具，为西班牙裔学生提供公平和包容性的学习

• 批准号: 2318386
• 负责人: Anna Stepanova
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 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=2318386&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Implementation; Evaluation; Project; SedimentSketch

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to serve the national interest by enhancing the effectiveness of undergraduate geoscience education at an HSI, Texas A&M University. The project aims to strengthen student academic experiences through the development and classroom implementation of a novel intelligent sketch-based tutoring system. SedimentSketch, a visual, personalized, and dual language tool, will combine new curricular materials and sketch recognition algorithms to improve student learning through sketching exercises and automatic, instantaneous feedback. Hispanic student performance indicators are markedly different from students of other ethnicities, with Hispanic students consistently having lower GPAs at graduation. The goal is to improve Hispanic students' GPAs and time to graduation. The proposed SedimentSketch tool can transform the higher-education geoscience curriculum for HSIs by enabling geoscience students to interact with the material and receive helpful feedback instantaneously outside of class and by cultivating a more inclusive learning environment. An outcome of the SedimentSketch application will be to help close the gap between Hispanic and non-Hispanic students' GPAs and improve retention in geoscience courses.SedimentSketch will be the first teaching tool in sedimentology that provides novel learning experiences to students as well as the flexibility of remote access to lab materials. The educational materials will be based on the PI’s sedimentary rock collections and materials from public sources, e.g., the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), and will include videos, games and interactive exercises. Overall, the project will improve career trajectories for Hispanic students by enhancing their learning and exposing them to an innovative tool for hands-on learning activities for real-life scientific and industry applications of sedimentology. Additionally, SedimentSketch will be a great tool outside of the HSI environment to accommodate students with special needs, improve learning and accessibility, and can be used for outreach. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目2项目旨在通过在德克萨斯州HSI的A＆M University提高本科生地球科学教育的有效性来服务国家利益。该项目旨在通过开发和课堂实施基于智能素描的辅导系统来增强学生的学术经验。 SedimentsKetch是一种视觉，个性化和双语言工具，将结合新的当前材料和草图识别算法，通过素描练习和自动瞬时反馈来改善学生的学习。西班牙裔学生的表现指标与其他种族的学生明显不同，西班牙裔学生在毕业时的GPA始终具有较低的GPA。目的是改善西班牙裔学生的GPA和毕业时间。拟议的沉积物工具可以通过使地球科学的学生与材料进行互动并立即在课堂外和培养更具包容性的学习环境中立即获得有益的反馈，从而改变了HSI的高等教育地球科学课程。沉积物应用程序的结果将是帮助缩小西班牙裔和非西班牙裔学生的GPA之间的差距，并改善地球科学课程的保留率。SedimentsKetch将是Satementsology中的第一个教学工具，为学生提供新颖的学习经验以及对实验室材料的灵活性。教育材料将基于PI的沉积岩石收藏品和公共资源的材料，例如国际海洋发现计划（IODP），并包括视频，游戏和互动练习。总体而言，该项目将通过增强他们的学习并将其暴露于创新的工具，从而为现实生活中的科学和行业应用，通过增强他们的学习，并将其暴露于Sedimentology的真实科学和行业应用中，从而改善西班牙裔学生的职业发展轨迹。此外，SenementsKetch将是HSI环境之外的一个很好的工具，可容纳有特殊需求，改善学习和可访问性的学生，并可用于外展。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来通过评估来诚实地获得支持。