TAMUK STEP: A Model for Student Success and Persistence

TAMUK STEP：学生成功和坚持的典范

• 批准号: 0525496
• 负责人: Kim Jones
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0525496&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TAMUK; STEP; Model; Student; Success

Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), in partnership with six two-year colleges is conducting the type 1 project, A Model for Student Success and Persistence, under the NSF Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP). The cooperating institutions are: Palo Alto, St. Philips, Coastal Bend, Southwest Texas Junior, South Texas Community, and, Del Mar Colleges. An emphasis is being placed on recruiting Hispanics who make up 69 percent of the combined student bodies into a chemistry, physics, engineering, or mathematics bachelor degree program thereby increasing the availability of a trained workforce for the state. The project is augmenting the articulation agreements for the smooth transfer from the two-year colleges to the university that are already in place.A variety of activities are being used to increase the transfer rate from the two-year institutions to the regional university and to retain entering students who have an intention to major in a STEM discipline. These activities include Transfer Fairs, Transfer Information Days, Peer Advisors, Faculty Learning Groups, and Learning Facilitators. Learning and teaching are being promoted through faculty and student development of modules and industry related materials for first year SEM courses. Faculty Learning Groups are studying research on student learning and assessment and implementing new teaching strategies. First-year mathematics, chemistry and physics courses that have been identified as "barrier" courses are being revised. Concurrent enrollment programs are allowing students at the two-year colleges to undertake pre-engineering courses that would normally not be available to them via interactive video or on-site at the offering institution. Early exposure to undergraduate research is important in improving the persistence of students to a baccalaureate degree.

德克萨斯A M大学金斯维尔分校是一所西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），与六所两年制学院合作，正在进行NSF科学，技术，工程和数学人才扩展计划（STEP）下的1型项目，学生成功和坚持的模型。这些合作机构是：帕洛阿尔托、圣菲利普斯、沿海弯曲、西南得克萨斯州少年、南得克萨斯州社区和德尔马尔学院。 一个重点是被放在招聘拉美裔谁占69%的合并学生团体进入化学，物理，工程或数学学士学位课程，从而增加了训练有素的劳动力的国家可用性。 该项目正在扩大衔接协议，以实现从两年制学院顺利转入大学。目前正在开展各种活动，以提高从两年制学院转入地区大学的比率，并留住有意主修STEM学科的新生。 这些活动包括转让交易会，转让信息日，同侪顾问，教师学习小组和学习促进者。 通过教师和学生开发第一年SEM课程的模块和行业相关材料，促进了学习和教学。 教师学习小组正在研究学生的学习和评估，并实施新的教学战略。 被认定为“障碍”课程的一年级数学、化学和物理课程正在修订中。 并行招生计划允许两年制学院的学生参加通常无法通过互动视频或在提供机构现场提供的工程预科课程。 早期接触本科研究对于提高学生对学士学位的坚持是重要的。