Creating Opportunities for Success Through Recruitment, Retention, and Faculty Development

通过招聘、保留和师资发展创造成功机会

• 批准号: 0431517
• 负责人: Jill Singer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431517&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Opportunities; Success; Through; Recruitment

The primary goal of this project is to increase the number of students entering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors and to increase the number of students receiving baccalaureate degrees in STEM disciplines at Buffalo State College. Our project involves a combination of efforts including: increasing our outreach and recruitment activities in order to target prospective STEM students in area high schools; attracting and retaining undeclared students interested in STEM fields through their participation in a year-long learning community with the theme "the urban environment"; taking advantage of the College's Freshman Seminar Program to offer introductory STEM courses for students interested in becoming STEM majors and for students who entered the college with a declared STEM major; providing STEM students with opportunities to participate in summer research between their freshman and sophomore years; increasing the support services available to students enrolled in introductory STEM courses by introducing problem-solving sessions in math (pre-calculus through calculus II and statistics) and peer tutoring for all introductory STEM courses; and providing faculty development opportunities to support substantive revision to introductory courses to shift from primarily lecture to guided inquiry with an emphasis on developing problem-solving skills. The intellectual merit of this project includes the sound practices and research base for the pedagogical approach we are taking to recruit and retain students. Our evaluation plan is designed to determine the impact of the various activities we are using, and our results should be applicable to others desiring to increase the retention of STEM majors. We also are focusing on a variety of faculty development efforts and our assessment of this aspect of our project should help advance our understanding of the role faculty play in contributing to student success. The broader impacts of this project include addressing the nation's need for STEM graduates through our efforts to increase the retention and graduation rates of STEM majors at Buffalo State College. The focus of our learning community, "the urban environment", should appeal to diverse student audiences and should also contribute to greater participation by underrepresented students in STEM programs. The dissemination plan provides an opportunity for faculty at other campuses to learn from our experiences. The regional workshop, to be held near the end of this proposed project, should facilitate sharing best practices among faculty and institutions within this region. The inclusion of two other campuses currently with active NSF-STEP awards should contribute to wider dissemination of project results.

该项目的主要目标是增加进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）专业的学生人数，并增加在布法罗州立学院获得STEM学科学士学位的学生人数。我们的项目涉及一系列努力，包括：增加我们的推广和招聘活动，以针对地区高中的潜在STEM学生;通过参加为期一年的学习社区，吸引和留住对STEM领域感兴趣的未申报学生，主题是“城市环境”;利用学院的新生研讨会计划，为有兴趣成为STEM专业的学生和以STEM专业进入学院的学生提供STEM入门课程;为STEM学生提供机会，让他们在大一和大二之间参加暑期研究;通过引入数学问题解决课程，增加对STEM入门课程学生的支持服务（通过微积分II和统计学的微积分前）和所有入门STEM课程的同行辅导;并提供教师发展机会，以支持对入门课程进行实质性修订，从主要的讲座转向指导性探究，重点是培养解决问题的技能。这个项目的智力价值包括我们正在采取的招聘和留住学生的教学方法的良好实践和研究基础。我们的评估计划旨在确定我们正在使用的各种活动的影响，我们的结果应该适用于其他希望提高STEM专业保留率的人。我们还专注于各种教师发展工作，我们对项目这方面的评估应有助于我们进一步了解教师在促进学生成功方面所发挥的作用。这个项目的更广泛的影响包括通过我们的努力，以提高在布法罗州立大学的STEM专业的保留和毕业率，解决国家对STEM毕业生的需求。我们的学习社区的重点，“城市环境”，应该吸引不同的学生观众，也应该有助于在STEM项目的代表性不足的学生更大的参与。传播计划为其他校区的教师提供了一个学习我们经验的机会。拟在本拟议项目接近尾声时举办的区域讲习班应有助于该区域内的教职员工和机构交流最佳做法。列入其他两个校区目前与积极的NSF-STEP奖应有助于更广泛地传播项目成果。