TPSE Math Chairs +1 Conference #2

TPSE 数学主席 1 次会议

• 批准号: 1725394
• 负责人: Phillip Griffiths
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Institute For Advanced Study
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TPSE; Math; Chairs; +1; Conference

An established United States workforce need and critical challenge is to recruit and train students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Because mathematics is a fundamental part of all STEM disciplines, success of undergraduate students in mathematics is a crucial ingredient in addressing this challenge. This "TPSE Math Chairs+1 Conference #2" project, with leadership team from the Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math) group, will organize and convene a conference primarily of mathematical sciences department chairs and other academic leaders from a diverse set of institutions of higher education from across the country. This is the second conference of this nature with the first having been held in October, 2016 (NSF 1651738). Workshop topics will include several key questions and issues to be addressed to catalyze improved teaching, learning, retention, and overall student success in undergraduate mathematics. Although recent education research has provided the STEM education community with indications and suggestions for various directions for change to improve undergraduate teaching and student learning, this community as a whole has not always been quick to foster such changes. Among the purposes of the workshop will be to encourage more collaboration among members of the mathematics community, help department chairs develop capacities to catalyze change in their own departments, and serve as a vehicle for chairs with common interests to work together for change after the conference, especially in areas of developing more diverse and modern curricula for mathematics majors and non-mathematics majors alike. To help guide the discussion and conference outcomes, the conference organizers with input from participants plan to address a wide range of questions and determine research needed to address them. The questions and categories include: (1) What do the various STEM disciplines want for their students who take mathematics? What mathematical training do other disciplines want for their majors? Is this training appropriate for careers in those disciplines? (2) What kinds of mathematical sciences training do employers want? Do employers in fact know what mathematics training can be most useful for their employees? (3) What are the levels of career satisfaction experienced by students who have - and have not - taken particular mathematics courses or pathways? (4) What menu of mathematics training best supports basic numeracy (general quantitative and reasoning skills) for citizens in today's society? and (5) Why are the current post-secondary pathways variations of algebra and calculus unsatisfactory? What should replace them? The conference also will showcase extant models, resources, and research results, and participants will be asked to suggest how they can be adopted, adapted, disseminated, scaled up, and evaluated, and to recommend what additional research is needed.

一个既定的美国劳动力需求和关键挑战是招聘和培训科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的学生。由于数学是所有STEM学科的基本组成部分，本科生在数学方面的成功是应对这一挑战的关键因素。这个“TPSE数学椅子+1会议#2”项目，与数学（TPSE数学）组的中学后教育改革的领导团队，将组织和召开一次会议，主要是数学科学系主任和其他学术领导人从不同的高等教育机构从全国各地。这是第二次此类会议，第一次会议于2016年10月举行（NSF 1651738）。研讨会的主题将包括几个关键的问题和问题要解决，以促进改善教学，学习，保留，并在本科数学学生的整体成功。虽然最近的教育研究为STEM教育界提供了各种方向的变化，以改善本科教学和学生学习的指示和建议，但这个社区作为一个整体并不总是迅速促进这种变化。研讨会的目的之一将是鼓励数学界成员之间的更多合作，帮助部门主席发展能力，以促进自己部门的变革，并作为具有共同利益的椅子在会议后共同努力实现变革的工具，特别是在为数学专业和非数学专业开发更多样化和现代化课程的领域。为了帮助指导讨论和会议成果，会议组织者根据与会者的意见，计划解决一系列广泛的问题，并确定解决这些问题所需的研究。问题和类别包括：（1）各种STEM学科希望他们的学生谁采取数学？其他学科的专业需要什么样的数学训练？这种培训适合这些学科的职业吗？(2)雇主需要什么样的数学科学培训？雇主们真的知道什么样的数学培训对他们的员工最有用吗？(3)什么水平的职业满意度经历的学生谁有-和没有-采取特定的数学课程或途径？(4)在当今社会，什么样的数学培训最能支持公民的基本算术能力（一般定量和推理技能）？及（5）为何现时专上教育的代数及微积分课程并不理想？应该用什么来取代它们？会议还将展示现有的模型、资源和研究成果，与会者将被要求建议如何采用、调整、传播、扩大和评估这些模型、资源和研究成果，并建议需要进行哪些额外的研究。