Planning Grant for STEM Self-Analysis

STEM 自我分析规划补助金

• 批准号: 0506064
• 负责人: Lanier Byrd
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT - St. Philip's College
• 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: 2005-06-01 至 2006-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0506064&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; STEM; Self; Analysis

St. Philips College (SPC) will implement a eighteen month planning grant for STEM Self-Analysis. SPC is a public, two-year college which serves a San Antonio and is the only two-year institution designated as both a Historically Black College and University and a Hispanic Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. The planning grant activities will include an extensive assessment of the STEM gatekeeper courses in order to improve the passing rates of the courses. The project objective is to conduct an analysis of three STEM gateway courses: Algebra, Biology, and Chemistry to increase student success and retention. Activities include: (1) faculty visits to exemplary colleges; (2) identification of barriers to student success and retention; (3) identification and prioritization of strategies to eliminate the barriers; and (4) developing a faculty development. Expected outcomes are: (1) a skilled core STEM faculty group capable of collaboratively identifying learning barriers, researching best practices, and implementing innovative curricula; (2) a detailed plan to modify curricula; and (3) the institutionalization of the modified STEM curriculum. The intellectual merit of this project is based on the strategies that will be employed to perform the curriculum assessment and the eventual improvements in the STEM programs at SPC. STEM faculty will review literature and data and visit exemplar institutions in order to develop the most appropriate project for improving the STEM programs at SPC. Through the planning activities, the STEM faculty will create a collaborative STEM education culture at SPC.The broader impact of this project includes the extensive professional development of the STEM faculty that will be accomplished and the long-term impact on SPC graduates who have taken the gatekeeper courses - both STEM majors and non-STEM majors. SPC will share what it has learned from the assessment process via conference participation, website posting, and publications.

圣飞利浦学院（SPC）将实施为期18个月的STEM自我分析计划拨款。SPC是一所公立两年制学院，服务于圣安东尼奥，是唯一一所被美国教育部指定为历史上的黑人学院和大学以及西班牙裔服务机构的两年制机构。计划拨款活动将包括对STEM看门人课程的广泛评估，以提高课程的通过率。该项目的目标是对三门STEM门户课程：代数、生物和化学进行分析，以提高学生的成功率和保留率。活动包括：(1)教师参观示范学院；(2)识别学生成功和保留的障碍；(3)确定和优先考虑消除障碍的战略；(4)发展师资队伍。预期结果是：(1)一个熟练的核心STEM教师团队，能够协同识别学习障碍，研究最佳实践，并实施创新课程；（二）课程修改的详细方案；(3)修改后的STEM课程的制度化。这个项目的智力价值是基于将被用来执行课程评估的策略，以及SPC的STEM项目的最终改进。STEM教师将审查文献和数据，并访问示范机构，以制定最合适的项目，以改进SPC的STEM项目。通过规划活动，STEM教师将在SPC创建一种协作的STEM教育文化。该项目更广泛的影响包括将完成的STEM教师的广泛专业发展，以及对参加守门员课程的SPC毕业生（包括STEM专业和非STEM专业）的长期影响。SPC将通过会议参与、网站发布和出版物的形式分享其在评估过程中所学到的知识。