Fort Peck Community College Eci Project

佩克堡社区学院 Eci 项目

• 批准号: 1363438
• 负责人: Wayne Two Bulls
• 金额: $ 249.78万
• 依托单位: Fort Peck Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1363438&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fort; Peck; Community; College; Eci

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to expand the STEM instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricula offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will inform the body of knowledge about strategies that attract, retain and graduate American Indian students in engineering. The Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) will develop a Pre-Engineering Associate of Science (AS) degree program that is transferrable to a bachelor-degree program in Engineering or a related STEM field. The overall purpose of this work is to increase the number of American Indian students pursuing STEM career pathways and achieving STEM degrees at FPCC. The project addresses a growing need for engineers in the region, some of which can be attributed to region's fossil fuel and renewable energy activities. It is important to increase the number of STEM majors and graduates at FPCC as a means to assist Assiniboine and Sioux tribal members to enter these high-growth sectors of the workforce. The project expands FPCC's degree offerings to include a new AS degree in Pre-Engineering to meet the growing need for engineers in the region, use promising strategies from emerging research on community colleges to improve instruction and student achievement in mathematics, build innovative supports to help students complete STEM associate degrees at FPCC and matriculate to STEM bachelor degrees, and expand the college's undergraduate research capacity in STEM fields.The project builds on and advances research on promising practices from emerging community college research to promote increased student math proficiency and success in STEM fields through early assessment, curriculum redesign and targeted tutoring, expanded access to learning supports, faculty development, transition support from two-year to four-year degrees, and authentic research experiences. The project will address research questions regarding the effect of these promising strategies with American Indian students pursuing STEM degrees. The project is evaluated using a multi-dimensional approach that utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods for collecting data. The evaluation plan is based on the tenets of a model for return on investment specifically designed for TCUs and based on the work of Phillips and Phillips. These measures and data elements will be used to evaluate how well the project is meeting its objectives to help the project leadership make data-driven decisions regarding project implementation and to derive research-based understanding of the impact of the strategies proposed. Formative data will be collected each semester to inform ongoing activities of the project and summative data will be used to make determinations regarding project successes, strengths, challenges, and recommendations for next steps.

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是扩大为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的STEM教学和研究能力。 扩大这些机构的STEM课程设置，扩大了学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业生涯的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。 该项目直接与这一目标相一致，而且将告知有关吸引，留住和毕业于工程专业的美国印第安学生的战略的知识体系。 Fort Peck Community College（FPCC）将开发一个可转移到工程或相关STEM领域的学士学位课程的科学（AS）学位课程的预工程副学士。 这项工作的总体目的是增加美国印第安学生追求STEM职业途径，并在FPCC实现STEM学位的数量。该项目解决了该地区对工程师日益增长的需求，其中一些需求可归因于该地区的化石燃料和可再生能源活动。重要的是要增加FPCC的STEM专业和毕业生的数量，以帮助阿西尼博因和苏族部落成员进入这些高增长的劳动力部门。该项目扩大了FPCC的学位课程，包括一个新的工程预科AS学位，以满足该地区对工程师日益增长的需求，使用新兴的社区学院研究的有前途的策略来改善教学和学生的数学成绩，建立创新的支持，以帮助学生在FPCC完成STEM副学士学位，并录取到STEM学士学位，该项目建立在新兴社区学院研究的有前途的实践的基础上，并推进研究，通过早期评估，课程重新设计和有针对性的辅导，促进学生数学能力的提高和在STEM领域的成功，扩大获得学习支持，教师发展，从两年制到四年制学位的过渡支持，以及真实的研究经验。该项目将解决有关这些有前途的战略与美国印第安学生追求STEM学位的效果的研究问题。 该项目采用多层面的方法进行评估，该方法利用定性和定量方法收集数据。评价计划以专门为技术合作单位设计的投资回报模式的原则为基础，并以菲利普斯和菲利普斯的工作为基础。这些措施和数据要素将用于评估项目实现其目标的情况，以帮助项目领导层就项目实施做出数据驱动的决策，并对拟议战略的影响进行基于研究的理解。每学期将收集形成性数据，以告知项目正在进行的活动，总结性数据将用于确定项目的成功，优势，挑战和下一步的建议。