NSF INCLUDES Launch Pilot: STEPs to STEM

摘要：NSF包括启动试点项目Steps to STEM，将在整个新泽西州监狱的社区大学教育综合计划内创建一个全州STEM管道。试点利用了教育、政府和志愿者部门之间的长期合作，包括新泽西州奖学金和监狱转型教育(STEP)，所有这些部门都承诺共同努力，授权并确保所需STEM课程的衔接(可转移性)。这项试点将解决的扩大参与度的挑战是将大学水平的STEM教育扩展到被监禁的人，他们绝大多数是来自美国社会最低社会经济水平的少数族裔。普通教育和STEM教育特别是STEM教育为学生准备了高水平的工作准备，为以前被监禁的人及其家人提供了更好的生活质量，并为美国经济成功做出了贡献。技术摘要：试点的四个主要目标是：1.巩固和确保新泽西州立监狱的STEM A.A.课程与新泽西州立大学罗格斯大学的学士学位无缝衔接；2.开始教授新的经过认证的STEM课程，并为获释的学生提供REU和实习机会；3.对在押期间及以外的STEM课程的学生进行跟踪，使研究成为一个补充目标，以评估与主流教育环境相比较的学生和教师的表现；4.与企业、政府、非营利组织、发展和公共部门的合作伙伴合作，建立一个完整的STEM渠道，其长期目标是使以前被监禁的学生能够通过教育和劳动力参与STEM来清除他们的记录。这些目标的执行工作将如下进行。来自每个合作机构的高级人员和一名联合监督的博士后实习生将与我们的合作伙伴--Raritan Valley社区学院--就整个州系统的认证和衔接条款进行谈判。我们现有的志愿者团队将在每一门课程通过认证后开始教授STEM课程。我们的行业和研究合作伙伴将在第一个夏天开始提供REU和培训实习机会。团队中的教育研究专业人员将指导设计、实施和分析学生和教师的表现。将从非营利组织、企业和公共部门引入新的合作伙伴，以扩大这一倡议的覆盖范围和影响。

General Abstract:This NSF INCLUDES Launch Pilot project, STEPs to STEM, will create a statewide STEM pipeline within an integrated program of community college education throughout the state prisons of New Jersey. The Pilot leverages a long-standing collaboration among education,government, and volunteer sectors including NJ-Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (STEP), all of whom commit to work together to accredit and ensure articulation (transferability) of the required STEM courses. The broadening participation challenge that will be addressed by this Pilot is to extend college-level STEM education to incarcerated persons, who are overwhelmingly minorities from the lowest socioeconomic levels of American society. Education in general and STEM education in particular equips students for high-level workforce readiness, offering improved quality of life for formerly incarcerated persons and their families and contributing to American economic success.Technical Abstract:Four major goals of the Pilot are: 1. consolidate and ensure articulation of STEM A.A. courses in NJ state prisons with a seamless path to B.A. study at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; 2. begin teaching new accredited STEM courses and offering REU andinternship opportunities to released students; 3. implement tracking of students in STEM courses while incarcerated and beyond, enabling a supplementary research goal to evaluate student and teacher performance in comparison with mainstream educational settings; 4. workwith partners in business, government, non-profit, development, and public sectors to build a complete STEM pipeline with a long-term goal of enabling formerly incarcerated students to clear their records through education and workforce participation in STEM. Implementation of the goals will proceed as follows. Senior personnel from each of the cooperating institutions and a jointly-supervised postdoctoral trainee will negotiate the terms of accreditation and articulation across the state system with our partner, the lead accreditation institution, Raritan Valley Community College. Teaching of STEM courses by our established team of volunteers willcommence as each course is accredited. Our industry and research partners will begin offering REU and training internships in the first summer. Educational research professional on the team will guide the design, implementation, and analysis of student and teacher performance. New partners will be brought in to the collective from the non-profit, business, and public sectors to extend the reach and impact of this initiative.