The Science Education Resource Virtual Diversity Center

科学教育资源虚拟多样性中心

• 批准号: 0646175
• 负责人: William McHenry
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0646175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Education; Resource; Virtual; Diversity

ABSTRACTThe Science Diversity Centerhttp://ScienceDiversityCenter.orgThe Science Diversity Center (SDC) is a web-based comprehensive one-stop science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research resource tool designed to: (1) assist federal agencies that fund STEM initiatives to obtain and share timely and accurate program and project information in a user-friendly format with stakeholders, researchers and others; (2) provide and expedite sharing of strategies that address the nation's critical STEM workforce capacity-building and competitiveness needs; (3) increase and broaden participation in STEM career fields for individuals from groups currently underrepresented in those fields of study, and for those who teach and otherwise support those efforts. After eighteen months of strategic development, the SDC in partnership with Science.gov, was launched and featured on the latter's web site. During that period the SDC investigator(s) demonstrated the feasibility and utility of designing unique "software robots" that allow the SDC to "mine" data from other federal agencies; schedule automatic "imports" of data imports; provide automatic corrections in the data, as well as to verify and validate the data. Automatic email reminders were also developed. During the course of its start-up, the principal investigator provided hands-on demonstrations with the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee; sister agencies; and, nonprofit STEM and workforce related stakeholders. It became apparent that the SDC tool, and its manifold and coordinated uses, could provide support and information also to and for majority institutions, as well as for intra-NSF Directorate research programs, NSF funded research centers, and to preliminarily for projects currently under development. The supplement is sought to further build, refine and enhance the Center's actual and potential technical applications and its conceptual reach, including immediate assistance to research center needs, and student-faculty research experiences.

科学多样性中心（SDC）是一个基于网络的综合性一站式科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究资源工具，旨在：(1)协助资助STEM计划的联邦机构以用户友好的格式与利益相关者、研究人员和其他人获取和分享及时、准确的计划和项目信息；(2)提供并加快战略共享，以解决国家关键的STEM劳动力能力建设和竞争力需求；(3)为目前在这些研究领域中代表性不足的群体的个人，以及那些教授和支持这些努力的人，增加和扩大STEM职业领域的参与。经过18个月的战略发展，SDC与Science.gov合作成立，并在后者的网站上刊登。在此期间，SDC调查员展示了设计独特的“软件机器人”的可行性和实用性，使SDC能够从其他联邦机构“挖掘”数据；安排数据导入的自动“导入”；提供自动更正数据，以及验证和确认数据。自动电子邮件提醒也被开发出来。在启动过程中，首席研究员为科学和技术政策办公室的教育和劳动力发展小组委员会提供了实际演示；姊妹机构;以及非营利性的STEM和劳动力相关利益相关者。很明显，SDC工具及其多种和协调的用途，也可以为大多数机构、国家科学基金会理事会内部研究项目、国家科学基金会资助的研究中心，以及目前正在开发的项目提供支持和信息。增刊旨在进一步建立、完善和提高中心的实际和潜在技术应用及其概念范围，包括对研究中心需求的即时援助，以及学生和教师的研究经验。