Implementation Project: Advancing Success in STEM Undergraduate Research and Education (ASSURE)

实施项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学提供支持，以设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力，以增加获得STEM本科学位的学生人数，并通过加强STEM教育和研究来提高他们的准备质量。授予亚拉巴马A M大学的奖项旨在建立在以前的成功努力的基础上，增加代表性不足的少数民族在STEM学科的参与。该项目的总体目标是采用基于证据的策略和活动来保留，培训，教学和毕业本科STEM学生。该项目将影响该大学2000多名本科STEM专业的学生。目前，亚拉巴马A M大学91%的学生&是非洲裔美国人。该项目有三个具体目标与总体目标相结合：1）通过保留、指导和毕业STEM学科中代表性不足的少数民族来增强强大的本科课程; 2）通过扩大本科研究机会来提高学生的学习体验质量和知识深度;以及3）提高STEM教师在有效的循证教学方法方面的专业知识。采用精心设计的活动和策略，以实现以下成果：较低水平的本科把关课程的流失减少10%;在STEM领域录取的学生人数增加20%;学生参与基于交互式发现的本科研究增加25%;以及工程基础考试的通过率增加20%。

Implementation Projects provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in STEM and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthening STEM education and research. The award to Alabama A&M University seeks to build on previous successful efforts to increase participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines. The overarching goal of the project is to employ evidence-based strategies and activities for retaining, training, teaching, and graduating undergraduate STEM students. The project will impact more than two thousand undergraduate STEM majors at the University. Currently, 91% of students at Alabama A&M University are African American.The project has three specific goals that tie into the overarching goal: 1) to augment a robust undergraduate program by retaining, mentoring and graduating underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines; 2) to enhance the quality of students' learning experience and depth of knowledge by expanding undergraduate research opportunities; and 3) to enhance STEM faculty members' expertise in effective evidence-based pedagogical methodologies. Carefully designed activities and strategies are employed to achieve the following outcomes: a 10% reduction of attrition in lower level undergraduate gate-keeping courses; a 20% increase in the number of students matriculating in STEM fields; a 25% increase in students' participation in interactive discovery-based undergraduate research; and a 20% increase in the passing rate of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.