Collaborative Research: Directed Reading Program Network

合作研究：定向阅读计划网络

• 批准号: 1740089
• 负责人: Candice Price
• 金额: $ 7.46万
• 依托单位: University of San Diego
• 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: 2017-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740089&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Directed; Reading; Program

This project will create a Directed Reading Program Network (DRPN) to (a) investigate the educational and social impacts of Directed Reading Programs (DRPs) and (b) support communication and best practices among already-existing DRPs. DRPs were initiated at the University of Chicago in 2003 by two of this project's senior personnel and are a widespread and growing near-peer mathematics mentoring program, currently implemented at no fewer than fourteen colleges and universities, with plans to open on at least four more campuses. DRPs are run locally by graduate students under faculty oversight, pairing graduate student mentors with undergraduate mentees to work on mathematics reading projects. Previously DRPs have been run with no centralized planning or data collection across sites, and one of the chief outcomes of this project is to rectify this oversight by intentionally documenting the work done at DRPN member institutions. The project plans to remedy the missed opportunity to study mathematics students who participate in DRPs at a key juncture in their professional development without impeding the grassroots and student-driven design of the program. The educational research component of this project will be conducted by social psychologist Ozlem Ayduk of University of California at Berkeley, who is an expert social psychology researcher of rejection sensitivity, identity-formation, and mentor-mentee relationships in STEM fields. In addition, the project will fund a workshop at MIT in early 2018 which will enable current and planned DRPs to discuss best practices for using these programs to broaden STEM participation. Finally, a small but crucial "seed fund" will offer a boost to a selected handful of new programs to implement ideas from the workshop at a few competitively selected DRPN member institutions.

该项目将创建一个定向阅读计划网络 (DRPN)，以 (a) 调查定向阅读计划 (DRP) 的教育和社会影响，以及 (b) 支持现有 DRP 之间的沟通和最佳实践。 DRP 于 2003 年由该项目的两名高级人员在芝加哥大学发起，是一项广泛且不断发展的同行数学辅导计划，目前在不少于 14 所学院和大学实施，并计划在至少另外 4 所校园开设。 DRP 由研究生在教师的监督下在本地运行，将研究生导师与本科生导师配对，共同开展数学阅读项目。 此前，DRP 的运行没有集中规划或跨站点数据收集，该项目的主要成果之一是通过有意记录 DRPN 成员机构所做的工作来纠正这种监督。该项目计划弥补那些在职业发展关键时刻参与 DRP 的数学学生错失的机会，同时不妨碍该项目的草根和学生驱动的设计。该项目的教育研究部分将由加州大学伯克利分校的社会心理学家 Ozlem Ayduk 进行，他是 STEM 领域拒绝敏感性、身份形成和导师与学员关系方面的社会心理学专家研究员。 此外，该项目还将资助 2018 年初在麻省理工学院举办的研讨会，使当前和计划中的 DRP 能够讨论使用这些计划扩大 STEM 参与的最佳实践。 最后，一笔规模虽小但至关重要的“种子基金”将推动选定的少数新项目，以在一些经过竞争选出的 DRPN 成员机构实施研讨会上的想法。