Broadening Participation Research Grant: Applying the Performance Pyramid to STEM Education

林肯大学HBCU-UP扩大STEM教育参与研究项目题为“将绩效金字塔应用于STEM教育”。该研究建议使用一个综合的理论模型，该模型来源于商业环境中的绩效评估，以检查代表性不足的少数族裔STEM学生的支持需求。该理论模型旨在解释课程创新可能有效或可能无效的原因。它还将指导课程设计，使创新者能够灵活地开发与现有课程不同的课程，但仍然遵循相同的绩效成功基本原则。拟议项目的总体目标是：(1)提高非裔美国学生在STEM学科中的参与度和成功程度；(2)采用绩效模型来制定措施，以检查STEM项目中少数民族学生的支持情况；(3)通过与地方和国家利益相关者的沟通，广泛传播绩效模型、措施和研究成果。该提案概述了三项研究，这些研究测试了绩效金字塔模型，该模型用于评估STEM学科中族裔群体差异参与的基础。第一项研究将是一项需求评估，以确定非裔美国STEM专业学生可获得的感知支持水平。第二和第三项研究将使用需求评估数据来设计两个创新项目（Math2和STEM联盟），以增加对非裔美国STEM专业学生的支持、学习和坚持。该研究将应用绩效金字塔支持系统作为框架，以确定非裔美国学生在STEM学科中取得成功的基本原因。这最终可以产生一个可行的模型，用于评估少数族裔STEM学生的学术支持系统，并提高保留率。

The Lincoln University HBCU-UP Broadening participation Research in STEM Education project is entitled Applying the Performance Pyramid to STEM Education. The study proposes the use of a comprehensive theoretical model derived from performance evaluation in business settings to examine the support needs of underrepresented minority STEM students. The theoretical model is intended to explain the reasons why curricular innovations may or may not be effective. It will also guide curricular design by giving innovators the flexibility to develop programs that appear different from established programs but still bear the same foundational principles of performance success. The broad goals of the proposed project are to (1) improve the participation and success of African American students in STEM disciplines; (2) adapt a performance model to create measures to examine minority student support in STEM programs; and (3) broadly communicate the performance model, measures, and research findings through communication with local and national stakeholders.The proposal outlines three studies that test the Performance Pyramid model of evaluating the foundations of differential engagement of ethnic groups in STEM disciplines. The first study will be a needs assessment to identify the level of perceived support available to African American STEM majors. The second and third studies will use the needs assessment data to design two innovative programs (Math2 and STEM Alliance) to increase support, learning, and persistence of African American STEM majors. The study will apply the Performance Pyramid support systems as a framework to determine the foundational reasons why African American students succeed in STEM disciplines. This can ultimately produce a viable model for assessing academic support systems for minority STEM students and increase retention.