ISU's Noyce Scholarships for STEM Teachers of Under-Represented Groups

在美国国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，ISU的诺伊斯奖学金面向代表不足的群体的STEM教师，正在招募农业、生物、化学、地球和空间科学、数学、物理、技术和工程专业的本科生，为他们成为6-12年级的科学或数学教师做准备。该项目将在5年内资助40名学者，在他们作为诺伊斯学者的三年级和四年级获得10,000美元的奖学金，并有机会在三年级获得3000美元的研究实习机会(作为大学研究实验室之一的带薪实习生)，以及在暑期获得1560美元的教学实习机会(共同教授山谷景观学区6-8年级学生的STEM夏令营)。伊利诺伊州立大学(ILU)正与乔利特初级学院(JJC)和芝加哥联合学区谷景学区合作，从大专和伊利诺伊州立大学招收STEM专业的大二学生成为诺伊斯学者(同时获得STEM专业学位和中学教师资格证书)，并以STEM教学为职业来吸引初中学生。该项目的主要目标是：增加来自未被充分代表的群体寻求STEM主修和二级文凭的学生数量，增加从JJC到ISU寻求STEM二级文凭的学生转化率，培养Noyce Scholars对STEM的概念知识，以有效实施下一代科学标准，培养Scholars教授多样化学生群体的技能，培养Scholars对科学本质的理解，培养Scholars对STEM教学的自我效能感，并提高中学生对上大学和从事STEM职业的兴趣。前一次ISU Noyce项目的50名毕业生中有94%(94%)仍在这些高需求城市学校任教。目前的项目将使执行支助股能够利用从以城市为基础的项目中吸取的经验教训，扩大努力，为郊区高需求地区提供服务，并使刚刚开始认识到其重要性的学生群体受益，这些学生来自目前在STEM教学领域代表性不足的群体，否则他们可能不会考虑参加ISU和/或寻求二级教师资格证书来教授STEM学科。此外，它将支持两个新的伙伴关系：一个是ISU与一个多样化的高需求学区之间的伙伴关系，该学区以前与ISU几乎没有互动；另一个是ISU与乔利埃初级学院之间的伙伴关系，这将增加从伊利诺伊州最大的社区学院之一向ISU的转化率。评估活动将以准实验设计为特色。实验组将由执行支助股诺伊斯学者和夏令营参与者组成，而对照组将分别由执行支助股非诺伊斯学者和非夏令营参与者组成。ISU非诺伊斯学者将从其STEM学科的教师教育方案中招聘。夏令营比较组将从没有参加夏令营的中学生中招募。将采用混合方法(定量和定性数据收集)对该项目的成效进行全面分析，并对总体结果进行深入解释。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, ISU's Noyce Scholarships for STEM Teachers of Under-Represented Groups is recruiting undergraduate STEM majors in agriculture, biology, chemistry, earth and space science, mathematics, physics, technology & engineering and preparing them to become grades 6-12 Science or Math teachers. The project will fund 40 Scholars over 5 years, with $10,000 scholarships in their junior and senior year as Noyce Scholars along with the opportunity to earn a $3000 research internship during their junior year (as a paid intern in one of the university's research laboratories) and a $1560 teaching internship during the summer (co-teaching a STEM summer camp to 6-8th graders from the Valley View School District). Illinois State University (ILU) is partnering with Joliet Junior College (JJC) and Valley View School District of the Chicago Unified School District to both recruit sophomore STEM majors from the junior college and ISU to become NOYCE Scholars (earning both a degree as a STEM major and a secondary teaching credential) and to interest junior high students in STEM teaching as a career. The primary objectives of this project are to: increase the number of students from under-represented groups seeking a STEM major and a secondary credential, increase the transfer rate of students from JJC to ISU to seek a STEM secondary credential, develop Noyce Scholars' conceptual knowledge of STEM in order to effectively implement the Next Generation Science Standards, develop Scholars' skills in teaching a diverse student body, develop Scholars' understanding of the nature of science, develop Scholars' self-efficacy toward STEM teaching, and increase middle school students' interest in attending college and pursuing a STEM career. Ninety-four percent (94%) of the 50 graduates from a previous ISU Noyce program (centered on urban high needs schools in the city of Chicago) are still teaching in these high-needs urban schools. The current project will enable ISU to use the lessons learned from that urban based project to expand their efforts to serve a suburban high-needs district and to benefit a student population whose importance is just beginning to be realized, students from groups currently underrepresented in the STEM teaching field who might not have otherwise considered attending ISU and/or seeking a secondary teaching credential to teach a STEM discipline. Furthermore, it will support two new partnerships: one between ISU and a diverse, high-need school district that previously had few interactions with ISU and another between ISU and Joliet Junior College, which should increase the transfer rate from one of Illinois's largest community colleges to ISU. Assessment activities will feature a quasi-experimental design. Experimental groups will comprise ISU Noyce Scholars and summer camp participants while comparison group will comprise ISU non-Noyce scholars and non-summer camp participants, respectively. ISU non-Noyce Scholars will be recruited from their teacher education programs in STEM disciplines. The summer camp comparison group will be recruited from middle school students who did not attend the camp. A mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative data collection) approach will be used to provide a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of the project, and provide an in-depth interpretation of the overall results.