The GREAT (Graduate-Retain-Engage-Advise-Team Learning) Falcon Project

威斯康辛大学河瀑分校GREAT（毕业生、保留、参与、建议、团队学习）猎鹰项目旨在增加生物学、化学、地质学、环境科学、物理学和数学专业毕业生的数量。该项目针对的是头两年的学生，使用成熟的策略来提高学生的成功，并支持提高STEM学生的保留率。GREAT Falcon项目采用三种方法来提高STEM学生的保留率、升学率和毕业率。首先，教师们正在实施以学生为中心的教学法，如基于研究的实验室、工作室物理和以过程为导向的指导性探究学习，以提高学生在入门STEM课程中的参与度和成功率。其中一些教学策略正在广泛使用一种新的高科技主动学习课堂。第二，在化学和数学的关键瓶颈课程中采用同伴领导的团队学习，教授学生STEM所需的解决问题的技能。最后，一个混合咨询系统帮助STEM学生解决学业、社交和/或财务问题。有继续留校风险因素的学生将由留校专家/导师联系，并根据需要安排适当的干预措施。离开STEM专业和/或大学的学生将接受面试，以评估他们离开的原因。GREAT Falcon项目每年直接影响900名STEM专业的学生，旨在在资助期结束时每年增加40名STEM毕业生（从目前的每年130名增加到170名）。

The University of Wisconsin, River Falls GREAT (Graduate, Retain, Engage, Advise, Team learning) Falcon Project is designed to increase the number of graduates in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Environmental Science, Physics, and Mathematics. The project targets students in their first two years, using proven strategies to increase student success and support to increase the retention of STEM students. The GREAT Falcon Project takes a three-fold approach to improve STEM retention, progression, and graduation rates. First, faculty are implementing student-centered pedagogies such as research-based laboratories, Studio Physics, and Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning to increase student engagement and success in gateway STEM courses. Several of these teaching strategies are making extensive use of a new high-technology Active Learning Classroom. Second, Peer-Led Team Learning is utilized in key bottleneck courses in Chemistry and Mathematics to teach students the problem-solving skills needed in STEM. Finally, a hybrid advising system helps STEM students with academic, social, and/or financial issues. Students showing risk factors for continued retention are contacted by a retention specialist/mentor, with appropriate interventions scheduled as needed. Students who leave STEM majors and/or the university are interviewed to assess why they are leaving. The GREAT Falcon Project directly impacts 900 students per year in STEM majors and is designed to increase the number of STEM graduates by 40 per year (from the current 130 to 170 students per year) by the end of the grant period.