Workshop for Conversations Related to Motivating Interest in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering among Oklahoma K-12 Students

与激发俄克拉荷马州 K-12 学生对科学、数学和工程兴趣相关的对话研讨会

• 批准号: 0848335
• 负责人: Susan Walden
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0848335&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Conversations; Related; Motivating; Interest

A phased workshop will be held at the University of Oklahoma (OU) to engage school administrators in conversations to enhance their awareness of engineering as a discipline and to establish how the OU College of Engineering can optimally utilize its resources and expertise to support and increase student participation and engagement with engineering. The first phase of the workshop engages OU staff and administrators from rural school districts in a dialogue to understand the obstacles to mathematical and scientific literacy in the K-12 that inhibit incoming college student?s interest in and ability to pursue engineering majors. The second phase is similar in scope and mission, except that the K-12 representatives invited will include superintendents, principals and curriculum directors from urban and suburban school districts in Oklahoma. The workshop has three major objectives. The first is to increase awareness in Oklahoma?s K-12 superintendents and principals of the importance of encouraging K-12 students to prepare to study engineering at the university level. The second is to develop a plan through which OU College of Engineering, K-12 superintendents, principals, and teachers and professional and industrial partners can cooperatively facilitate and implement appropriate engineering education programs and activities for K-12 students and their parents to enhance interest and motivation in science and mathematics. The third is to identify potential strategic partners for the College of Engineering?s Sooner Engineering Education (SEED) Center from Oklahoma K-12 superintendents and principals and professional organizations and industrial donors. This workshop will attempt to discover a mutually beneficial and acceptable path for promoting engineering among K-12 and identifying how the (SEED) center or other similar engineering education centers can engage appropriate federal, state, professional, and industrial partners in a collaborative and long-term plan for increasing the number and diversity of students pursuing engineering degrees. Results from these workshops will be disseminated to engineering educators through major publications, and research results also will be disseminated directly to Oklahoma educators. The results of the workshop dialogs will be of interest to engineering programs across the nation since the Oklahoma state demographics is similar to several states in the nation. The action plan developed from the workshop should aid SEED and other institutions with similar constituents in recruiting and retaining prepared engineering students from poorly represented rural communities.

俄克拉荷马大学将举办一个分阶段的研讨会，让学校管理人员参与对话，提高他们对工程学科的认识，并确定俄克拉荷马大学工程学院如何最佳地利用其资源和专业知识，以支持和增加学生对工程的参与和参与。研讨会的第一阶段让公开大学的工作人员和来自农村学区的管理人员进行对话，以了解K-12教育中阻碍即将入学的大学生数学和科学素养的障碍。对工程专业的兴趣和能力。第二阶段的范围和任务类似，只是邀请的K-12代表将包括俄克拉何马州城市和郊区学区的督学、校长和课程主任。研讨会有三个主要目标。首先是提高俄克拉荷马州的意识。让K-12的督学和校长意识到鼓励K-12学生准备在大学阶段学习工程学的重要性。二是制定一项计划，通过该计划，OU工程学院，K-12学监，校长，教师以及专业和工业合作伙伴可以合作促进和实施适当的工程教育计划和活动，以提高K-12学生及其家长对科学和数学的兴趣和动力。第三是为工程学院寻找潜在的战略合作伙伴。来自俄克拉何马州K-12教育主管、校长、专业组织和工业捐助者的更快工程教育（SEED）中心。本次研讨会将试图发现一条互利和可接受的途径，以促进K-12之间的工程，并确定（SEED）中心或其他类似的工程教育中心如何与适当的联邦、州、专业和工业合作伙伴建立长期合作计划，以增加攻读工程学位的学生的数量和多样性。这些研讨会的成果将通过主要出版物传播给工程教育工作者，研究成果也将直接传播给俄克拉何马州的教育工作者。研讨会对话的结果将引起全国工程项目的兴趣，因为俄克拉荷马州的人口结构与全国几个州相似。讲习班制定的行动计划应有助于SEED和其他具有类似组成部分的机构从代表性不足的农村社区征聘和留住有准备的工程专业学生。