NSF INCLUDES DDLP Statewide Consortium: Supporting Underrepresented Populations in Precalculus by Organizational Redesign toward Engineering Diversity

NSF 包括 DDLP 全州联盟：通过面向工程多样性的组织重新设计，支持初级微积分领域代表性不足的人群

• 批准号: 1744497
• 负责人: Anand Gramopadhye
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 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: 2017-12-01 至 2020-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; DDLP; Statewide; Consortium

Improving retention rates in postsecondary engineering degree programs is the single most effective approach for addressing the national shortage of skilled engineers. Both mathematics course placement and performance are strong graduation predictors in engineering, even after controlling for demographic characteristics. Underrepresented students (e.g., rural students, low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color) are disproportionately represented in cohorts that enter engineering programs not yet calculus-ready. Frequently, the time and cost of obtaining an engineering degree is increased, and the likelihood of obtaining the degree is also reduced. This educational problem is particularly acute for African American students who attended select high schools in South Carolina, with extremely high-poverty rates. As a result, the investigators proposed an NSF INCLUDES Launch Pilot project to develop a statewide consortium in South Carolina - comprising all of the public four-year institutions with ABET-approved engineering degree programs, all of the technical colleges, and 118 high schools with 70% or higher poverty rates, to pinpoint and address the barriers that prevent these students from being calculus ready in engineering. This NSF INCLUDES Launch Pilot project will map completion/attrition pathways of students by collecting robust cross-sectional data to identify and understand the complex linkages between and behind critical decisions. Such data have not been available to this extent, especially focused on diverse populations. Further, by developing structural equation models (SEMs), the investigators will be able to build on extant research, contributing directly to understanding the relative impact of a range of latent variables on the development of engineering identity, particularly among African American, rural, low-income, and first-generation engineering students. Results of the pilot interventions are likely to contribute to the empirical and theoretical literature that focus on engineering persistence among underrepresented populations. Project plans also include developing a centralized database compatible to the Multiple Institution Database for Investigation of Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD) project to share institutional data with K-12 and postsecondary administrators, engineering educators, and education researchers with NSF INCLUDES projects and beyond.

提高高等教育工程学位课程的保留率是解决全国熟练工程师短缺问题的最有效方法。即使在控制了人口特征之后，数学课程的安排和表现都是工程领域强有力的毕业预测因素。代表性不足的学生（例如农村学生、低收入学生、第一代学生和有色人种学生）在进入尚未准备好微积分的工程课程的群体中所占比例过高。通常，获得工程学位的时间和成本会增加，并且获得学位的可能性也会降低。对于在贫困率极高的南卡罗来纳州特定高中就读的非裔美国学生来说，这一教育问题尤其严重。因此，调查人员提出了一项 NSF INCLUDES 启动试点项目，旨在在南卡罗来纳州建立一个全州范围的联盟，其中包括所有拥有 ABET 批准的工程学位课程的公立四年制院校、所有技术学院以及 118 所贫困率 70% 或更高的高中，以查明并解决阻碍这些学生在工程学领域做好微积分准备的障碍。该 NSF 包括启动试点项目将通过收集可靠的横截面数据来确定学生的完成/流失路径，以识别和理解关键决策之间和背后的复杂联系。目前尚未获得此类数据，尤其是针对不同人群的数据。此外，通过开发结构方程模型（SEM），研究人员将能够以现有研究为基础，直接有助于理解一系列潜在变量对工程身份发展的相对影响，特别是对非裔美国人、农村、低收入和第一代工程学生。试点干预措施的结果可能会对关注代表性不足的人群中的工程持久性的实证和理论文献有所贡献。项目计划还包括开发一个与工程纵向发展调查多机构数据库 (MIDFIELD) 项目兼容的集中式数据库，以便与 NSF INCLUDES 项目及其他项目的 K-12 和高等教育管理人员、工程教育工作者和教育研究人员共享机构数据。

项目成果

Poverty and Guidance: Challenges and Opportunities in Mathematics Preparation for Engineering

贫困与指导：工程数学准备中的挑战与机遇

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35063
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
• 作者: Gallagher, Eliza;Vagnozzi, Anna Marie;Lanning, Rachel;Brown, D.;Brown, Christy;Frady, Kristin;Brisbane, Julia;Matthews, Michael;Murphy, Joseph;Patel, Khushikumari
• 通讯作者: Patel, Khushikumari

Work in Progress: Identifying Mathematical Pathways to Engineering in South Carolina

正在进行的工作：确定南卡罗来纳州工程的数学途径

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference & exposition proceedings
• 作者: Gallagher, E.;Brown, D.A.;Brown, C.J.;Frady, K.;Bass, P.;Matthews, M.;Peters, T.;Rabb, R.;Solan, I.;Welch, R.
• 通讯作者: Welch, R.

Statewide Coalition: Supporting Underrepresented Populations in Precalculus through Organizational Redesign Toward Engineering Diversity (SC:SUPPORTED) Results from Year One

全州联盟：通过面向工程多样性的组织重新设计，支持微积分基础课程中代表性不足的人群（SC：支持）第一年的结果

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference & exposition proceedings
• 作者: Gallagher, E.;Brown, C.J.;Brown, D.A.;Frady, K.;Marcanikova, M.;Atamturktur, S.;Ihekweazu, S.;Matthews, M.;Rabb, R.;Roberts, R.
• 通讯作者: Roberts, R.

Familial Influences Affecting Student Pathways to Engineering at Two-Year and Four-Year Institutions

影响两年制和四年制院校工程专业学生道路的家庭影响

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: 2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity
• 作者: Brisbane, Julia;Gallagher, Eliza;Dunwoody, L. Armoni;Hines, Abigail;Murphy, Joseph C.;Patel, Khushikumari;Pfirman, Aubrie L.;Roberson, Shannon L.;and Gramopadhye, Anand
• 通讯作者: and Gramopadhye, Anand

High School Technology as a NON-predictor of First College Math Course

高中技术作为第一门大学数学课程的非预测因素

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: American Society of Engineering Education Southeast Regional Meeting 2019
• 作者: Marcanikova, Marketa;Gallagher, Eliza;Brown, Christy;Brisbane, Julia;Brown, Andrew;Dunwoody, L. Armoni;Frady, Kristin;Hines, Abigail;Murphy, Joseph;Patel, Khushikumari
• 通讯作者: Patel, Khushikumari