Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES - Changing the Face of STEM in the U.S. Virgin Islands through Targeted Interventions to Expand Opportunities and Broaden Participation

合作研究：NSF 包括 - 通过有针对性的干预措施扩大机会和扩大参与，改变美属维尔京群岛 STEM 的面貌

• 批准号: 1649183
• 负责人: Carrie Bucklin
• 金额: $ 1.91万
• 依托单位: Southern Utah University
• 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: 2016-12-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649183&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSF; INCLUDES; Changing

ABSTRACTA non-technical description of the project test explains its significance and importance.The goal of this project is to help students easily identify themselves as science or engineering professionals and increase the proportion of the local population, dominantly minorities, who pursue science and technology careers. Experience has demonstrated that students are most engaged in technical fields when they can participate in active, hands-on learning around problems with application to their local community. The focus of the effort is in marine science, which has local relevance to both the environment and the economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project will use interventions at three crucial stages: middle school, high-school-college transition, and master-PhD transition, to engage students with specific active-learning and research-oriented programs. Community partners comprise a wide-ranging local organization that leverages the resources of other successful collaborations.A technical description of the projectThis project will create a transferable model that uses innovative partnerships among universities, governmental and non-governmental organizations, a professional society, and businesses, to create a local backbone organization with a shared vision for change and common success metrics broaden participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This project addresses the critical challenge of building scientific identity to increase interest and engagement of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The plan includes targeted interventions at three significant times in the student career pathway (middle/high school, early college, and graduate school) that comprise: (1) field experiences in the marine sciences for middle/high school students, (2) early field research experiences for college freshmen and sophomore students, (3) bridge programming to a Ph.D. partnership with Pennsylvania State University, and (4) an intensive mentoring program. The model is grounded in social innovation theory through a framework that meets the five conditions for collective impact: common agenda, shared measurement of data and results, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support.

摘要 该项目测试的非技术性描述解释了其意义和重要性。该项目的目标是帮助学生轻松识别自己作为科学或工程专业人员，并增加当地人口（主要是少数族裔）从事科学和技术职业的比例。经验表明，当学生能够积极参与围绕问题并应用于当地社区的实践学习时，他们最能参与技术领域。这项工作的重点是海洋科学，它与美属维尔京群岛的环境和经济都具有当地相关性。该项目将在三个关键阶段进行干预：初中、高中-大学过渡和硕士-博士过渡，让学生参与特定的主动学习和研究型项目。社区合作伙伴包括广泛的当地组织，利用其他成功合作的资源。项目的技术描述该项目将创建一个可转移的模型，利用大学、政府和非政府组织、专业协会和企业之间的创新伙伴关系，创建一个当地骨干组织，具有共同的变革愿景和共同的成功指标，扩大对科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 的参与。该项目解决了建立科学身份的关键挑战，以提高美属维尔京群岛 STEM 领域代表性不足的少数群体的兴趣和参与度。该计划包括在学生职业生涯的三个重要时期（初中/高中、早期大学和研究生院）进行有针对性的干预，其中包括：(1) 为中学生/高中生提供海洋科学领域的实地经验，(2) 为大学新生和大二学生提供早期实地研究经验，(3) 为博士生提供桥梁编程。与宾夕法尼亚州立大学合作，以及 (4) 强化指导计划。该模型以社会创新理论为基础，通过一个满足集体影响的五个条件的框架：共同议程、共享数据和结果衡量、相互加强的活动、持续沟通和骨干支持。