Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES: An Integrated Approach to Retain Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Disciplines

合作研究：NSF 包括：在 STEM 学科中留住代表性不足的少数族裔学生的综合方法

• 批准号: 1649226
• 负责人: Suzanne Barbour
• 金额: $ 11.73万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 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: 2016-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSF; INCLUDES; Integrated

The University of Georgia, Florida International University, Savannah State University, Clark Atlanta University and Fort Valley State University will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to address enhancing recruitment, retention, productivity and satisfaction of historically underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students who enroll in STEM graduate programs at primarily white (PWI) and research intensive (RI) universities. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address the STEM education practices for retaining and educating URM undergraduate STEM students at our nation's research intensive universities (RIs). This project, NSF INCLUDES: An Integrated Approach to Retain Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Disciplines, has the potential to advance a collaborative approach by a group of organizations to improve the success of URM undergraduates in STEM disciplines.The collaborating universities will work together for the purposes of empowering URM students to more effectively navigate STEM undergraduate and graduate education at minority serving institutions (MSIs) and PWIs, and for transforming the culture of PWIs and RIs. The team plans to use evidence-based approaches to gain insights into cultural differences that impact the success of URM STEM students. Three interventions will be included in the pilot study: (1) undergraduate URM student exchanges between MSIs and PWIs, (2) collaborative inquiry to engage URM students in social science research about issues and experiences of under-representation in STEM, and (3) the adaptation of resources from the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) to train STEM faculty to embrace diversity and improve teaching in diverse classroom settings. The project team plans to develop strategies to scale approaches and develop an alliance of institutions to maximize potential project outcomes.

佐治亚大学、佛罗里达国际大学、萨凡纳州立大学、克拉克亚特兰大大学和福特谷州立大学将领导这项设计和开发启动试点，以解决在主要白人(PWI)和研究密集型(RI)大学注册STEM研究生课程的历史上代表性不足的少数族裔(URM)本科生的招生、留住、生产力和满意度问题。这个项目是为了响应全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)计划征集(NSF 16-544)而创建的。INCLUDE计划是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点是NSF对这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。Include Design and Development Launch Pilot代表了解决STEM不断扩大的参与度挑战的大胆、创新的方法。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与对于推动科学和工程为国家安全、健康和繁荣服务至关重要。我国正在推进知识和实践，以解决STEM教育实践，以留住和教育我国研究密集型大学(RIS)的URM本科生。这个项目，NSF包括：在STEM学科中留住少数族裔学生的综合方法，有可能推动一组组织的合作方法，以提高URM本科生在STEM学科中的成功。合作的大学将合作的目的是使URM学生能够更有效地适应STEM服务机构(MSI)和PWI的STEM本科生和研究生教育，并改变PWI和RI的文化。该团队计划使用基于证据的方法来洞察影响URM STEM学生成功的文化差异。先导研究将包括三个干预措施：(1)MSI和PWI之间的本科生URM学生交流，(2)协作探究，使URM学生参与社会科学研究，了解STEM代表性不足的问题和经验，以及(3)调整研究、教学和学习中心(CIRTL)的资源，以培训STEM教师接受多样性，并在不同的课堂环境中改进教学。项目组计划制定战略，扩大方法的规模，并发展机构联盟，以最大限度地提高潜在的项目成果。