STEMWAY: Comprehensive Academic Support for STEM students

STEMWAY：为 STEM 学生提供全面的学术支持

• 批准号: 1161220
• 负责人: Loretta Silverman
• 金额: $ 90.29万
• 依托单位: Foothill-De Anza Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1161220&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEMWAY; Comprehensive; Academic; Support; STEM

STEMWay is a comprehensive outside-the-classroom academic support program designed to increase graduation of STEM students at 2-year institutions. STEMWay combines four key elements, consistent with recent research on STEM student success: academic support services that closely parallel STEM courses and pathways; analytical management to enable comprehensive support with limited resources; comprehensive mentoring services for progressive student success within an active learning community; and continual involvement by all STEM faculty members for collaborative improvement. STEMWay academic student support applies a scaffolding model, which includes multi-dimensional skills readiness assessment to improve placement of students into appropriate courses and to identify knowledge gaps, and anticipatory booster instruction to give students the necessary skills for success in each course. A full-service emporium supplies assessments and instruction, coordinates with faculty and courses, monitors students' pathway progress, and assesses success of each program element. STEMWay's initial target is 482 additional student graduations (a 95% increase beyond baseline) in a 2-year mathematics progression, which has been shown to be foundational for success in all STEM areas. STEMWay evaluation includes formative analysis of multiple program factors for continual feedback, to be followed by summative evaluation of STEMWay as a full system to promote STEM retention, and dissemination of STEMWay assessment of effective strategies to positively impact nation-wide STEM graduation efforts.Intellectual Merit: STEMWay is a testable model of "intensive intervention", reflecting a theory of student retention that has been proposed but not yet fully implemented, according to its theorists Tinto and Seidman. STEMWay combines early and continuous assessment and intervention with strategic management optimization practices, and with academic community construction. STEMWay methods produce improved pedagogical models and strategies for STEM success. The experiences of the full program and of each of its parts inform colleges of effective practices for STEM student progression, retention, and graduation. STEMWay defines and applies a system of wrap-around services for students' academic needs outside the classroom. STEMWay adapts multiple external and internal resources for assessment, placement, and scaffolding. The combination of a comprehensive solution for complementary academic support with longitudinal implementation and improvement, and applied management science to add adaptive allocation of resources, is new.Broader Impacts: The STEMWay project is expected to increase the number of graduates with associate degrees and to prepare more students for advanced 4-year studies leading into STEM careers. As many Foothill College graduates continue on to receive baccalaureate degrees at local universities or are employed in Silicon Valley, increasing the number of STEM graduates immediately benefits the local community and further benefits the nation. Because Foothill College currently supports teacher preparation and STEM teacher recruitment, its efforts lead to more K-12 STEM teachers, especially among underrepresented groups. A successful STEMWay program changes not only the lives of participating students for the better but also those who benefit from the successes of STEM companies and corporations who hire qualified STEM graduates.

STEMWay是一个全面的课堂外学术支持计划，旨在提高2年制院校STEM学生的毕业率。 STEMWay结合了四个关键要素，与最近对STEM学生成功的研究一致：与STEM课程和途径密切平行的学术支持服务;分析管理，以有限的资源提供全面支持;全面的指导服务，在积极的学习社区中逐步取得学生的成功;以及所有STEM教师的持续参与，以进行协作改进。STEMWay学术学生支持采用支架模型，其中包括多维技能准备评估，以改善学生进入适当课程的安排，并确定知识差距，以及预期的助推器指导，为学生提供在每门课程中取得成功所需的技能。 一个全方位服务的商场提供评估和指导，与教师和课程协调，监测学生的途径进展，并评估每个程序元素的成功。 STEMWay的最初目标是在2年的数学课程中增加482名学生毕业（比基线增加95%），这已被证明是所有STEM领域成功的基础。 STEMWay评估包括对多个项目因素进行形成性分析，以获得持续反馈，然后对STEMWay进行总结性评估，作为一个完整的系统，以促进STEM保留，并传播STEMWay评估有效战略，以积极影响全国范围的STEM毕业工作。STEMWay是一种可测试的“强化干预”模式，反映了一种已经提出但尚未完全实施的学生保留理论，根据其理论家廷托和塞德曼。 STEMWay将早期和持续的评估和干预与战略管理优化实践相结合，并与学术社区建设相结合。 STEMWay方法为STEM成功提供了改进的教学模型和策略。 整个计划及其每个部分的经验为STEM学生的进步，保留和毕业提供了有效的实践。STEMWay为学生在课堂外的学术需求定义并应用了一个环绕式服务系统。 STEMWay采用多种外部和内部资源进行评估，放置和搭建。 综合性的解决方案将学术支持与纵向实施和改进相结合，并将应用管理科学与资源的适应性分配相结合，这是一种新的方式。更广泛的影响：预计STEMWay项目将增加获得副学士学位的毕业生人数，并为更多学生进入STEM职业做好准备。 随着许多山麓学院毕业生继续在当地大学获得学士学位或在硅谷就业，增加STEM毕业生的数量立即有利于当地社区，并进一步造福于国家。由于山麓学院目前支持教师准备和STEM教师招聘，其努力导致更多的K-12 STEM教师，特别是在代表性不足的群体中。 一个成功的STEM Way计划不仅改变了参与学生的生活，也改变了那些从STEM公司和雇用合格STEM毕业生的公司的成功中受益的人。