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.

解决代表性和物理科学中的关键问题需要有意义的文化变革，成立于 2015 年，通过将机构与学生主导的、以公平为导向的项目联系起来，分享和传播基于研究的战略和成果，直接解决这一国家优先事项。通过受指导的校际学生群体和年度大会，Access 培育社区、培养学生领袖、强化机构记忆并提供国家背景，这些都是网络可持续性和可扩展性的重要因素。 core 是一种独特的理念，承认并提升学生作为变革的推动者，承认他们是 STEM 社区的强大成员和物理学的未来领导者。外部评估者、网络内的教育研究人员和内部学生评估之间的创新评估伙伴关系。研究员将记录该网络对学生领袖、当地站点和各个部门的影响，这些活动采用学生驱动、基于社区的方法，并结合外部评估人员的专业知识，从而更全面地了解该模型。这项工作将直接支持学生。在网络中，在各个机构，并通过以下方式：（i）不断改进网络活动，支持专业发展和保留来自不同背景的初级科学家，（ii）培养新的学生领袖，以及（iii）建立材料和最佳实践的存储库，它将提高物理科学领域以公平为中心的变革的知识，并开发强有力的评估基础设施，以记录、理解和促进对成功至关重要的网络方面。导师和学生评估推进构想参与式评估并为计划性评估建立模型，更有效地支持当地评估可以实现其可持续性，因为他们可以更好地了解评估活动的影响并向当地利益相关者传达其影响，不仅可以更全面地了解接入情况。网络模型，为网络的改进提供信息，同时也使其他希望在 STEM 中实施重点文化变革的人受益。有关有效计划的知识对于那些制定共享领导模型的人特别有帮助，扩大学生在社区转型中可以发挥的关键作用。该奖项体现了通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。