NSF INCLUDES: Design & Development Launch Pilots: UTAH PREP

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• 批准号: 1649361
• 负责人: Daniel Horns
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Utah Valley 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: 2016-10-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649361&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Design; & Development

Utah Valley University (UVU) with partners Weber State University (WSU) and American Indian Services (AIS) are implementing UTAH PREP (PREParation for STEM Careers) to address the need for early preparation in mathematics to strengthen and invigorate the secondary-to-postsecondary-to-career STEM pipeline. As the preliminary groundwork for UTAH PREP, each partner currently hosts a PREP program (UVU PREP, WSU PREP, and AIS PREP) that identifies low-income, under-represented minority, first-generation, and female students entering seventh grade who have interest and aptitude in math and science, and involves them in a seven-week, three-year summer intensive program integrating STEM courses and activities. The course content blends skill-building academics with engaging experiences that promote a clear understanding of how mathematical concepts and procedures are applied in various fields of science and engineering. Courses are enhanced through special projects, field trips, college campus visits, and the annual Sci-Tech EXPO. The purpose of the program is to motivate and prepare participants from diverse backgrounds to complete a rigorous program of mathematics in high school so that they can successfully pursue STEM studies and careers, which are vital to advancing the regional and national welfare.UTAH PREP is based on the TexPREP program that originated at the University of Texas at San Antonio and which was named as one of the Bright Spots in Hispanic Education by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in 2015. TexPREP was adapted by UVU for use in Utah for non-minority serving institutions and in regions with lower minority populations, but with great academic and college participation disparity. With NSF funding for a two-year pilot program, the project partners are building UTAH PREP through a networked improvement community, collective impact approach that, if demonstrably successful, has the ability to scale to a national level. This pilot program's objectives include: 1) creating a UTAH PREP collaboration with commitments to a common set of objectives and common set of plans to achieve them; 2) strengthening existing PREP programs and initiating UTAH PREP at two or three other institutions of higher education in Utah, each building a sustainable local support network; 3) developing a shared measurement system to assess the impact of UTAH PREP programs, adaptations, and mutually reinforcing activities on students, including those from groups that are underrepresented in STEM disciplines; and 4) initiating a backbone organization that will support future scaling of the program's impact.

犹他州山谷大学（UVU）与合作伙伴韦伯州立大学（WSU）和美国印第安人服务（AIS）正在实施UTAH PREP（为STEM职业做准备），以解决数学早期准备的需求，以加强和振兴中学到中学后到职业STEM管道。作为犹他州PREP的初步基础，每个合作伙伴目前都有一个PREP计划（UVU PREP，WSU PREP和AIS PREP），该计划确定了低收入，代表性不足的少数民族，第一代和进入七年级的女性学生，他们对数学和科学感兴趣和有能力，并让他们参与为期七周，为期三年的夏季强化计划，整合STEM课程和活动。课程内容融合了技能建设学者与引人入胜的经验，促进对数学概念和程序如何应用于科学和工程的各个领域的清晰理解。课程通过特殊项目，实地考察，大学校园参观和年度科技博览会得到加强。该计划的目的是激励和准备来自不同背景的参与者在高中完成严格的数学课程，使他们能够成功地追求STEM研究和职业，这是至关重要的，以促进地区和国家的福利。犹他州PREP是基于TexPREP计划，起源于德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥，并被命名为亮点之一，在西班牙裔教育2015年，白宫拉美裔美国人教育卓越计划TexPREP被UVU改编用于犹他州的非少数民族服务机构和少数民族人口较少的地区，但有很大的学术和大学参与差距。在NSF为一个为期两年的试点项目提供资金的情况下，项目合作伙伴正在通过一个网络化的改进社区、集体影响方法来建立犹他州PREP，如果证明成功，该方法有能力扩展到国家一级。该试点计划的目标包括：1）创建一个UTAH PREP合作，致力于一套共同的目标和共同的计划，以实现这些目标; 2）加强现有的PREP计划，并在犹他州的两个或三个其他高等教育机构启动UTAH PREP，每个机构都建立一个可持续的地方支持网络; 3）开发一个共享的测量系统，以评估犹他州PREP计划，适应和相互加强的活动对学生的影响，包括那些来自STEM学科代表性不足的群体的学生;以及4）发起一个骨干组织，以支持未来扩大该计划的影响。