The IT College and CAREERS Readiness Project: Career Academy Research on Educational Experiences and Related Successes

IT 学院和职业准备项目：职业学院教育经验和相关成功研究

• 批准号: 1614707
• 负责人: Edward Fletcher
• 金额: $ 117.61万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614707&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: College; CAREERS; Readiness; Project; Career

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiencesThis ITEST project involves the University of South Florida, in collaborations with the National Academy Foundation, and three high school career academies, to study the impact of participation in the career academy model implemented by National Academy Foundation under different levels of implementation fidelity. The goals of the project are: (a) to examine the nature of organizational and implementation elements (mission, curriculum and instruction, internal and external supports) of information technology (IT) career academies with different levels of fidelity; (b) to determine student experiences in National Academy Foundation IT career academies with different levels of fidelity; and (c) to document indicators of college and career readiness (engagement, performance, transitions) of students in National Academy Foundation IT career academies with different levels of fidelity in comparison to National Academy Foundation students in non-career academies. The project will rely on extant student-level data from the dataset and comprehensive site visit data to meet the project.The primary focus of the proposed research is to study the impact of participation in the career academy model implemented by the National Academy Foundation under different levels of implementation. Using a mixed methods approach, the project will be driven by three research questions: (1) What is the nature of organizational and implementation elements (mission, curriculum and instruction, internal and external supports) of IT career academies with different levels of fidelity? (2) What are the student experiences in NAF IT career academies with different levels of fidelity? (3) What are the indicators of college and career readiness (engagement, performance, transitions) of students in NAF IT career academies with different levels of fidelity in comparison to students in non-career academies?

该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生的动机和能力的做法，通过参与实践现场经验，追求科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域的职业生涯，基于实验室/项目的创业任务和指导经验这个ITEST项目涉及南佛罗里达大学，与国家科学院基金会合作，和三所高中的职业学院，研究不同实施忠诚度水平下参与国家学院基金会实施的职业学院模式的影响。该项目的目标是：（a）审查组织和执行要素的性质（使命，课程和教学，内部和外部支持）的信息技术（IT）职业学院与不同程度的忠诚;（B），以确定学生的经验，在国家科学院基金会IT职业学院与不同程度的忠诚;以及（c）记录国家学院基金会IT职业学院学生的大学和职业准备（参与度、表现、过渡）指标，与非职业学院的国家学院基金会学生相比，其忠诚度水平不同。该项目将依赖于现有的学生层面的数据集和全面的现场访问数据，以满足project.The拟议的研究的主要重点是研究的影响，参与由国家学院基金会实施的职业学院模式下的不同层次的实施。使用混合方法的方法，该项目将由三个研究问题驱动：（1）什么是组织和实施要素（使命，课程和教学，内部和外部支持）的IT职业学院的性质与不同程度的忠诚？(2)在不同忠诚度的NAF IT职业学院中，学生的体验是什么？(3)与非职业学院的学生相比，NAF IT职业学院的学生具有不同程度的忠诚度，他们的大学和职业准备（参与，表现，过渡）指标是什么？