Framework to Enhance STEM Education for Community College Students
Framework to Enhance STEM Education for Community College Students
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DOI：
10.24018/ejedu.2022.3.3.331
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发表时间：
2022-05
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A. Zeid;C. Duggan
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作者：
A. Zeid;C. Duggan
社区学院 (CC) 在促进所有学习者的教育方面发挥着至关重要的作用。大约 40% 的大学新生在社区学院开始学习。拟议的框架旨在支持和激励 CC 学生坚持 STEM 教育，以增加 STEM 劳动力的渠道。其愿景是为 CC 学生提供工程技能并激发他们对工程研究的兴趣。该框架使学生能够在东北大学度过 10 个暑期周，以提高技能、信心并直接学习研究知识。每个学生都将加入一个研究实验室，与教师和研究生导师一起工作。此外，学生将在暑假后接受指导，以进一步支持他们成功毕业和/或转学到四年制及以后的院校。该网站以美国国家工程院的两大挑战为指导：个性化学习和科学发现。拟议框架的独特之处包括：工程主题和软件工具的实践短期课程；正式的导师培训，包括指导 CC 学生的模块；每天与导师举行学生会议；广泛的专业发展研讨会；正式的研究培训，包括每日反思日记、海报展示和与教职人员一起进行技术写作；并从独特的高素质 URM 学生中招募。
Community colleges (CCs) play a critical role in advancing the education of all learners. Approximately 40% of first-time college freshman begin in Community Colleges. The proposed framework seeks to support and excite CC students to persist in their STEM education to increase the pipeline for the STEM workforce. Its vision is to provide CC students engineering skills and to excite them about engineering research. The framework enables students to spend 10 summer weeks at Northeastern University to increase skills, confidence, and learn firsthand about research. Each student will join a research lab, working with faculty and graduate student mentors. Also, students will be mentored after summer to further support their successful graduation and/or transfer to a 4-year institution and beyond. The site is guided by two of the grand challenges of the National Academy of Engineering: personalized learning and scientific discovery. Unique aspects of the proposed framework include: a hands-on short course in engineering topics and software tools; formal mentor training including modules for mentoring CC students; daily student meetings with mentors; extensive professional development seminars; formal research training including daily reflection journals, poster presentations and technical writing with a faculty member; and recruitment from a unique pool of highly talented URM students.