NSF INCLUDES DDLP:Diversifying Access to Urban Universities for Students in STEM Fields

NSF 包括 DDLP：为 STEM 领域的学生提供多样化进入城市大学的机会

• 批准号: 1744446
• 负责人: Alison Legg
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 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: 2017-09-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; DDLP; Diversifying; Access

Many urban universities offer precollege STEM programs aimed at broadening participation in STEM. These programs are designed to increase students' scientific content knowledge and skills, promote STEM engagement, increase self-efficacy, and prepare underserved and underrepresented minority high school students for success in undergraduate programs. However, even after demonstrating significant knowledge gains and success in these programs, students are often unable to authenticate their knowledge gains to receive favorable consideration on college applications. In fact, there is currently no systematic credentialing mechanism to assess and validate the scientific rigor of and competency gains within STEM precollege programs for college admissions purposes. This NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot seeks to address this gap by developing and testing credentialing and badging processes for four STEM precollege programs. Working with College Admissions Officers and project partners, the University of Pittsburgh endeavors to employ a collaborative impact approach to build and document the collaborative infrastructure needed to support STEM precollege program authentication processes. This will seed the development of a networked improvement community that supports all aspects of the work from participant support to the collaborative impact to the greater network of urban education university ecosystems involved in the pilot. Over a two-year period, this pilot will examine a mechanism to strengthen the STEM pathway for disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students to enter postsecondary STEM programs and eventually STEM careers. Building on two social innovation theories, the technical approach will focus on four specific aims: (1) create a community engagement framework to recruit underserved and underrepresented high school students to STEM precollege programs, (2) develop a STEM Success Matrix that identifies student competencies acquired in precollege programs that prepare students for collegiate success in STEM, (3) credential precollege programs using the STEM Success Matrix, and (4) develop a student badging system for precollege program participants using the STEM Success Matrix. Four University of Pittsburgh STEM precollege programs will serve as the context for development and testing with support from a range of partners representing the broader Pittsburgh STEM ecosystem. Approximately 300 high school students are expected to participate in the pilot, across the four precollege programs. Data will be collected via participant surveys and interviews. Formative and summative evaluations will be conducted by an experienced, external evaluator. Shareable metrics, tools, and processes will be developed and disseminated using various platforms and mechanisms. If successful, this pilot could be transformative - changing admissions considerations by credentialing STEM precollege programs and increasing student interest and motivation in STEM through student badging. It would also transform the STEM ecosystem of underserved and underrepresented minority students by creating an important STEM pathway from precollege to undergraduate admissions and ultimately, STEM Careers. This pilot could serve as a baseline for a more expansive alliance with other urban education ecosystems or assisting others interested in establishing their own collaborative infrastructure and networked improvement community model to achieve similar results.

许多城市大学提供旨在扩大STEM参与的学前STEM课程。这些项目旨在提高学生的科学内容知识和技能，促进STEM参与，提高自我效能，并为服务不足和代表性不足的少数族裔高中学生在本科课程中取得成功做好准备。然而，即使在这些项目中取得了显著的知识收获和成功，学生们往往无法证明他们的知识收获，从而在大学申请中获得有利的考虑。事实上，目前还没有系统的认证机制来评估和验证STEM大学预科项目的科学严谨性和能力提升。这个NSF包括设计和开发启动试点旨在通过开发和测试四个STEM大学预科项目的认证和徽章流程来解决这一差距。匹兹堡大学与大学招生官和项目合作伙伴合作，努力采用协作影响方法来建立和记录支持STEM大学预科项目认证过程所需的协作基础设施。这将为网络改进社区的发展提供种子，该社区支持从参与者支持到协作影响到参与试点的更大的城市教育大学生态系统网络的各个方面的工作。在为期两年的时间里，该试点将研究一种机制，以加强弱势和代表性不足的少数民族学生进入高等STEM课程并最终进入STEM职业的STEM途径。以两种社会创新理论为基础，技术方法将侧重于四个具体目标：(1)创建一个社区参与框架，招募服务不足和代表性不足的高中学生参加STEM大学预科项目；(2)开发一个STEM成功矩阵，确定学生在大学预科项目中获得的能力，为学生在STEM大学取得成功做好准备；(3)使用STEM成功矩阵为大学预科项目提供证书；(4)使用STEM成功矩阵为大学预科项目参与者开发一个学生徽章系统。在代表更广泛的匹兹堡STEM生态系统的一系列合作伙伴的支持下，匹兹堡大学的四个STEM大学预科项目将作为开发和测试的背景。预计将有大约300名高中生参加这一试点项目，涵盖四个大学预科项目。数据将通过参与者调查和访谈收集。形成性和总结性评估将由经验丰富的外部评估人员进行。可共享的指标、工具和流程将使用各种平台和机制进行开发和传播。如果成功，这一试点可能会改变招生考虑，通过认证STEM大学预科课程，并通过学生徽章提高学生对STEM的兴趣和动力。它还将通过创建一条重要的STEM途径，从大学预科到本科录取，最终到STEM职业，从而改变服务不足和代表性不足的少数族裔学生的STEM生态系统。该试点可以作为与其他城市教育生态系统建立更广泛联盟的基线，或帮助其他有兴趣建立自己的协作基础设施和网络化改善社区模式的人实现类似的结果。