The Idaho Science Talent Expansion Program

爱达荷州科学人才拓展计划

• 批准号: 0856815
• 负责人: Janet Callahan
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0856815&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Idaho; Science; Talent; Expansion; Program

This project is increasing STEM retention and graduation rates by targeting first-year STEM students and the STEM faculty who teach those students. Mathematics assessment and learning are integrated with new-student orientation, and STEM faculty educational training is being linked with STEM freshman learning communities and with new student orientation. The project is expanding and incorporating a dimensional analysis curriculum, which has been successful in an engineering learning community, to a precalculus STEM learning community. This curriculum enhancement is helping to effectively prepare students for chemistry and physics courses. Based on exceptional retention results, the use of engineering research internships for first-year students is being expanded to other STEM disciplines. The Summer Adventure STEM Orientation program is improving retention with students at-risk for not completing a STEM degree, including those who are underprepared in math, those with financial need, Hispanic students, women, and students with low self-efficacy. The activities and assessments are providing scholarly findings about the impact of first-year programs for at-risk populations. This project is impacting at least 1300 incoming STEM majors over the five-year grant period. The expectation is that the retention rate of first-year STEM students will increase from 57% to 70%, and STEM undergraduate degrees will increase by 40 additional STEM graduates annually. Internal and External Advisory Boards are helping to guide the project and to disseminate results. Curriculum enhancement resources developed by this project are being distributing via their website. Project results and lessons learned are being shared through presentations and publications. This project is also developing close connections with and providing outreach activities for a newly formed regional community college, College of Western Idaho.PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH L.S. Nadelson, S.E. Shadle, J. Hettinger. "A Journey toward Mastery Teaching: STEM Faculty Engagement in a Year Long Faculty Learning Community," Learning Communities Journal, 2013.BOOKS/ONE TIME PROCEEDING Callahan, J.M.; Garzolini, J.A.; Hunt, G.L.; Guarino, J.; Bullock, D.; Shadle, S.; and Schrader, C.B.. "AC 2011-2500: The Idaho Science Talent Expansion Program: Freshman Orientation for STEM majors", 01/01/2011-12/31/2011, "Refereed Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Society of the Engineering Education", 2011, "Not applicable".L.S. Nadelson and S. Shadle. ?Promoting STEM Faculty Members? Reflection on their Learning Perceptions and Teaching Practices.? Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education.J.M. Callahan, D. Bullock, S.Y. Chyung. ?Both Sides of the Equation: Learner and Teacher.? Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education.A. Feldman, D. Bullock, and J.M. Callahan. ?Using Online Assessment and Practice to Achieve Better Retention and Placement in Precalculus and Calculus.? Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education.

该项目旨在通过针对一年级STEM学生和教授这些学生的STEM教师来提高STEM的保留率和毕业率。数学评估和学习与新生入学培训相结合，STEM教师教育培训与STEM新生学习社区和新生入学培训相联系。该项目正在扩展和整合维度分析课程，该课程在工程学习社区中取得了成功，并扩展到微积分预科STEM学习社区。这一课程改进有助于学生有效地为化学和物理课程做准备。基于优异的保留效果，一年级学生的工程研究实习机会正在扩大到其他STEM学科。夏季冒险STEM定向项目正在提高那些有可能无法完成STEM学位的学生的保留率，包括那些在数学方面准备不足的学生、有经济需要的学生、西班牙裔学生、女性和自我效能低的学生。这些活动和评估提供了关于第一年项目对高危人群影响的学术发现。在五年的资助期内，该项目将影响至少1300名即将进入STEM专业的学生。预计一年级STEM学生的保留率将从57%增加到70%，STEM本科学位每年将增加40名STEM毕业生。内部和外部咨询委员会正在帮助指导该项目并传播结果。本计划所开发的课程强化资源，现正透过网站发放。通过介绍和出版物分享项目成果和经验教训。该项目还与新成立的西部爱达荷州地区社区学院建立了密切的联系，并为其提供了外展活动。本研究结果所产生的出版物：l.s.n adelson， S.E. Shadle， J. Hettinger。“走向精通教学之旅：STEM教师参与为期一年的教师学习社区”，《学习社区杂志》，2013年。书籍/一次性程序卡拉汉，J.M.；Garzolini,正当;亨特,基准线;Guarino, j .;布洛克,d;Shadle,美国;Schrader, c.b.……“ac2011 -2500：爱达荷州科学人才扩展计划：STEM专业新生导向”，2011年12月31日，“美国工程教育学会2011年年会论文集”，2011，“不适用”，l.s。纳德尔森和S.沙德尔。？提升STEM教员？反思他们的学习观念和教学实践。2012年美国工程教育学会年会论文集[j]。Callahan， D. Bullock， S.Y. chung。？等式的两边：学习者和教师。2012年美国工程教育学会年会论文集[j]。费尔德曼，D.布洛克和J.M.卡拉汉。？利用在线评估和实践实现更好的保留和安置在微积分预科和微积分。2012年美国工程教育学会年会论文集。