Broadening Participation and Increasing the Success of Low-Income Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: A Knowledge Exchange Workshop

扩大低收入学生在科学、技术、工程和数学领域的参与并提高其成功率：知识交流研讨会

• 批准号: 1634807
• 负责人: Kelly Mack
• 金额: $ 26.42万
• 依托单位: Association of American Colleges and Universities
• 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: 2016-03-15 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1634807&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Increasing; Success; Low

This multi-disciplinary academic brokering workshop brings together Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty and administrators and researchers who study higher education to address issues of financial, academic, and student support that broaden the participation and success of low-income students pursuing degrees and careers in STEM. The central purpose of the Knowledge Exchange is to develop shared approaches to generating knowledge, measuring, and describing successful evidence-based strategies to accelerate knowledge generation, and systemic and sustainable change in STEM education at the post-secondary education level. The project leverages and builds upon the efforts and infrastructures of two organizational activities of the Association of American Colleges & Universities: Project Kaleidoscope (AAC&U PKAL) and STEM Central, whose combined emphasis is on improving STEM education in higher education. The expected outcome of the workshop is to increase and strengthen the development of collaborations and formation of a community among educational/social science researchers, discipline-based researchers, and STEM faculty and administrators - committed to examining and addressing the issues associated with broadening participation and increasing the success of low income students, who are pursing associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees in STEM and seeking entry into the STEM workforce. The evaluation of the effort has two aims: the first examines the extent of knowledge exchange that occurs between a diverse group of invited participants; and the second considers the quality of the information being made available to the wider STEM education community and its capacity to impact STEM teaching behavior. The mixed method outcomes-based evaluation is guided by prior research into how knowledge is exchanged within interdisciplinary groups. To that end, the evaluation of the Knowledge Exchange will assess the degree to which the project is able to facilitate the exchange of successful strategies relevant to the undergraduate education of low-income STEM students and the subsequent implementation of those strategies.

这个多学科的学术经纪研讨会汇集了科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教师和管理人员以及研究高等教育的研究人员，以解决财务，学术和学生支持的问题，这些问题扩大了低收入学生在STEM攻读学位和职业的参与和成功。 知识交流的中心目的是开发共享的方法来生成知识，衡量和描述成功的循证战略，以加速知识生成，以及中学后教育层面STEM教育的系统和可持续变革。该项目利用并建立在美国学院大学协会的两个组织活动的努力和基础设施之上：万花筒项目（AAC U PKAL）和STEM中心，其共同重点是改善高等教育中的STEM教育。研讨会的预期成果是增加和加强教育/社会科学研究人员，学科研究人员和STEM教师和管理人员之间的合作和社区形成的发展-致力于研究和解决与扩大参与和提高低收入学生的成功相关的问题，他们正在追求副学士，学士，和STEM研究生学位，并寻求进入STEM劳动力市场。 评估工作有两个目标：第一个是考察不同的受邀参与者群体之间的知识交流程度;第二个是考虑向更广泛的STEM教育社区提供的信息的质量及其影响STEM教学行为的能力。 混合方法基于结果的评价是由先前的研究如何在跨学科小组内交流知识。 为此，对知识交流的评价将评估该项目在多大程度上能够促进交流与低收入STEM学生本科教育有关的成功战略以及随后实施这些战略。