A National Resource Hub for Culturally Relevant and Responsive STEM Environments at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

为西班牙裔服务机构提供文化相关且响应迅速的 STEM 环境的国家资源中心

• 批准号: 2311181
• 负责人: Blanca Rincon
• 金额: $ 299.95万
• 依托单位: University of Nevada Las Vegas
• 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: 2024-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2311181&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Resource; Hub; Culturally; Relevant

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program), this Hub project aims to accomplish three distinct goals to: 1) foster Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) collaboration and networking; 2) support HSI faculty professional development; and 3) generate and disseminate knowledge by and about HSIs. In an effort to simultaneously engage multiple levers of change to achieve equitable educational outcomes and culturally validating environments for students that represent the full spectrum of diverse talent at HSIs, many HSIs respond by offering professional development for faculty on culturally responsive and relevant pedagogies. These worthwhile local efforts can be enhanced by creating opportunities for leveraging limited resources. This project will offer an alternative to a decentralized HSI information landscape by creating a freely accessible web-based HSI-Resource Hub for the nation’s growing network of public and private HSIs.This HSI Resource Hub will bring together STEM faculty across the hundreds of current and emerging HSIs in the United States. The project will create a community of STEM scholars who not only adopt, but also advance/cultivate their culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy. The Hub will synthesize and regularly update information on what works in HSI contexts to minimize trial and error approaches to education reforms and to nurture an ongoing community of practice. The project intends to improve educational equity and STEM education for students at HSIs by developing a professional development toolkit on culturally relevant and responsive teaching, offering faculty professional development, enabling seamless resource sharing, leveraging knowledge production, and enhancing opportunities for networking. In addition, the Hub will include other activities focused on the dissemination of practical and scholarly knowledge by and about HSIs, including a database of scholarly research on STEM education at HSIs, bi-annual topical briefs on asset-based approaches for broadening participation in STEM, an online professional learning community, and an online forum for faculty at HSIs to collaborate and share resources. These efforts will facilitate the spread of empirically based practices supporting culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs.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.

在改善本科 STEM 教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI 计划）的支持下，该中心项目旨在实现三个不同的目标：1) 促进西班牙裔服务机构 (HSI) 合作和网络建设；2) 支持 HSI 教师的专业发展； 3) 由 HSI 生成和传播有关 HSI 的知识，努力同时利用多种变革手段，为代表各种不同人才的学生实现公平的教育成果和文化验证环境。 HSI，许多 HSI 的回应是为教师提供文化响应和相关教学法的专业发展，这些有价值的当地努力可以通过创造利用有限资源的机会来加强，该项目将通过创建一个可自由访问的分散的 HSI 信息环境提供替代方案。基于网络的 HSI 资源中心，面向全国不断增长的公共和私人 HSI 网络。该 HSI 资源中心将汇集美国数百个现有和新兴 HSI 的 STEM 教师。该项目将创建一个STEM 学者社区不仅采用而且推进/培养他们的文化响应和相关教学法，该中心将综合并定期更新有关 HSI 背景下有效的信息，以尽量减少教育改革的试错方法并培育一个持续的社区。该项目旨在通过开发文化相关和响应式教学的专业发展工具包、提供教师专业发展、实现无缝资源共享、利用知识生产和增加联网机会，改善 HSI 学生的教育公平和 STEM 教育。在此外，该中心还将包括其他旨在传播 HSI 的实践和学术知识以及有关 HSI 的实践和学术知识的活动，包括 HSI STEM 教育学术研究数据库、关于扩大 STEM 参与的基于资产的方法的半年度专题简报、一个在线专业学习社区，以及一个供 HSI 教师合作和共享资源的在线论坛。这些努力将促进基于经验的实践的传播，支持文化响应和相关教学法。该项目由 HSI 计划资助。该奖项旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育、扩大 STEM 的参与以及 HSI 的能力建设。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。