STEM Central STATION

博伊西州立大学创建了STEM中心站（战略转型调整教学，沉浸，外展和知识），以增加NSF支持的STEM项目在校园内的范围，效率和有效性，并促进学生和教师的STEM机构文化的转变。 博伊西州正在从注重高质量的教学和学习转变为卓越的教学，学习和研究，使其成为研究与STEM教育相关的制度变革的理想“实验室”。 STEM入学率（四年内增长32%）和研究经费（2009年增长32%）的异常增长为STEM教育转型提供了最佳时机。STEM中心站建立在当前STEM项目的基础上（LSAMP、MSP、Noyce、STEP、S-STEM、GK-12和爱达荷州EPSCoR），提供增值活动，包括：1）STEM资源，研究和计划的校园中心，2）支持所有NSF STEM计划的同行学习促进者计划，3）STEM社区研讨会系列，以促进跨学科研究，教学和学生支持，以及4）为教师举办STEM教学研讨会和研究小组。 该站专注于学生和教师的关键时刻以及STEM研究和评估。该站的总体目标是： - 通过学术和认知的关键时刻促进和实现STEM学生的过渡; - 提高STEM教师对以学生为中心的教学法的理解和实施，并将学生纳入研究，特别是参与NSF STEM项目的教师; - 对机构转型进行研究，并评估计划对STEM学生满意度，保留率和完成率的影响，以及教师参与学习STEM教学法; - 为其他正在经历类似转型的都市大学提供了一个模式。STEM中心站立足于有关学习理论和制度变革的文献，重点是自我创作的概念。STATION的评估计划提供了一个案例研究的都市大学过渡到研究型大学，同时继续重视和推进质量的教学和学习。 该项目的成果是放大NSF STEM项目在博伊西州的成果，其中包括对少数民族和代表性不足的群体（特别是LSAMP，STEP和EPSCoR）的学生的重视，为低收入和第一代学生，妇女和拉丁美洲人/作为，其区域人口最近增加了一倍多。 学习辅导员培训课程的服务学习部分为K-12学生和教师提供外展服务，从而扩大K-12教室的STEM外展范围。 随着大学校长和资源，研究生助理和空间的领导的坚定承诺，项目实施计划包括战略，逐步淘汰赠款支持和过渡到大学的支持，以维持站赠款期后。

Boise State University has created the STEM Central STATION (Strategic Transformation Aligning Teaching, Immersion, Outreach and kNowledge) to increase the scope, efficiency and effectiveness of NSF-supported STEM programs on campus, and catalyze the transformation of STEM institutional culture for students and faculty. Boise State is transforming from a focus on high-quality teaching and learning to excellence in teaching, learning and research, making it an ideal "laboratory" to study institutional change related to STEM education. Exceptional growth in STEM enrollment (32% over four years) and research funding (32% in 2009) converge to provide optimal timing for STEM education transformation. The STEM Central STATION builds upon current STEM programs (LSAMP, MSP, Noyce, STEP, S-STEM, GK-12, and Idaho EPSCoR) by providing value added activities including: 1) a campus hub for STEM resources, research and programs, 2) a peer Learning Facilitators program that supports all the NSF STEM programs, 3) a STEM Community Seminar Series to foster interdisciplinary research, teaching and student support, and 4) STEM pedagogy workshops and research groups for faculty. The STATION focuses on critical junctures for students and faculty and STEM research and evaluation. Overall goals of the STATION are to: - Facilitate and achieve STEM students' transitions through academic and cognitive critical junctures; - Increase STEM faculty appreciation for and implementation of student-centered pedagogy and inclusion of students in research, particularly for faculty involved with NSF STEM programs; - Conduct research on institutional transformation and evaluate program impact on STEM student satisfaction, retention, and completion, and faculty engagement in learning about STEM pedagogy; and - Provide a model for other metropolitan universities undergoing similar transformations. The STEM Central STATION is grounded in literature regarding learning theories and institutional change, with an emphasis on concepts of self-authorship. The evaluation plan of the STATION offers a case study of a metropolitan university in transition to a research university, while continuing to value and advance quality teaching and learning. The outcomes of the project are amplifying the results of the NSF STEM programs at Boise State, which include emphases on students from minority and underrepresented groups (particularly LSAMP, STEP and EPSCoR), serving low income and first-generation students, women, and Latinos/as, whose regional population has recently more than doubled. The Service Learning component of the Learning Facilitators training course provides outreach to K-12 students and teachers, enabling expansion of STEM outreach in K-12 classrooms. With strong commitments from the university president and leadership of resources, graduate assistants and space, the project implementation plan includes strategies to phase out grant support and transition to university support to sustain the STATION after the grant period.