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

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 学分课程已成为学校领导者的吸引力，作为支持在学年面对面学习中未通过 STEM 课程的学生的一种方式。然而，关于学校如何做出有关学生学分恢复的决策的过程的研究很少。现有的研究仅关注学生的成绩，不够明确，不足以支持学区一级的重要政策决策。这项研究纠正了这一政策困境。研究人员将进行三项单独的研究。第一项研究将在人口不断变化的大型郊区学区的 14 所学校进行。 这项工作之后将对该特定地区的最佳政策/实践组合进行调查。最后，前两项研究的结果将支持使用兰德公司美国学校领导小组的代表性样本进行的国家级调查。这三项研究的结果将交织在一起，提供一个理论和实证框架，以支持参与 STEM 信贷恢复计划的政策制定者。这些研究将整合项目成功、成本、学生参与和教学法的关键组成部分。这是一个教师早期职业发展计划 (CAREER) 项目，响应计划征集 NSF 22-586，并由 Discovery Research PreK-12 计划联合资助，旨在显着加强科学、技术、工程、数学、通过研究和开发 STEM 教育创新和方法以及 NSF 的 EDU 核心研究 (ECR) 计划，K-12 学前班的学生和教师能够学习计算机科学 (STEM) 和计算机科学 (STEM)。 ECR 项目强调基础 STEM 教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。投资针对重要、广泛和持久的关键领域：STEM 学习和 STEM 学习环境、扩大 STEM 参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。