2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project

2017年Stone Child学院针对性STEM注入项目

• 批准号: 1761501
• 负责人: Susan Sutherland
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Stone Child College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2017; Stone; Child; College; Targeted

Increasing the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the nation's Indigenous students is a major goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities program. The "2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project" directly addresses these goals through the development of an instructional model that incorporates new ethnobotany curriculum materials and research experiences across the STEM disciplines at Stone Child College (SCC). This work will expand STEM offerings, improve the academic environment for Native students, and encourage them to pursue challenging and rewarding STEM degrees and careers, thus leading to a more diverse national workforce and strengthening our country's prosperity and security. The lessons learned about the efficacy of the project in supporting Native students' STEM outcomes will contribute to our understanding of best practices for attracting and preparing underrepresented students in STEM as the next generation of STEM professionals.The "2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project" at Stone Child College will develop an ethnobotany course and student research experiences that address core botany concepts and traditional plant knowledge of the Chippewa-Cree as a means to engage Native students in STEM studies. The project will update and enhance a forty-year-old book on Chippewa-Cree ethnobotany and develop a video to complement the book for use in the course, which will be offered across the STEM disciplinary degrees at SCC. The project will also develop and test a student cohort model that employs near-peer mentoring of high school students by college undergraduates as they complete the course and engage in culturally relevant ethnobotany research. Cultural experts from the tribal community will collaborate with college STEM faculty members in the design and delivery of the course and research experiences. The project's evaluation will collect evidence of the efficacy of the project in supporting improved STEM outcomes for Native students. Knowledge generated will be disseminated in publications and presentations and will contribute to the knowledge base on means for increasing the representation of Native people in STEM degrees and careers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

提高为国家土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教学和研究能力是部落学院和大学方案的主要目标。2017年斯通儿童学院定向STEM灌输项目通过开发一种教学模式直接解决这些目标，该模式结合了新的民族植物学课程材料和斯通儿童学院(SCC)STEM学科的研究经验。这项工作将扩大STEM课程，改善本地学生的学术环境，并鼓励他们追求具有挑战性和回报的STEM学位和职业，从而带来更多样化的国家劳动力，并加强我们国家的繁荣和安全。关于该项目在支持原住民学生STEM成果方面的有效性的经验教训将有助于我们理解吸引和培养STEM中代表性不足的学生作为下一代STEM专业人员的最佳实践。斯通儿童学院的“2017石头儿童学院目标STEM灌输项目”将开发一门民族植物学课程和学生研究经验，解决Chippewa-Cree的核心植物学概念和传统植物知识，作为一种手段，吸引原住民学生参与STEM研究。该项目将更新和加强一本关于Chippewa-Cree民族植物学的40年前的书，并开发一段视频来补充这本书，用于课程，这将在SCC的STEM学科学位中提供。该项目还将开发和测试一种学生队列模式，即在高中生完成课程并从事与文化相关的民族植物学研究时，由本科生对他们进行近乎同行的指导。来自部落社区的文化专家将与大学STEM教员合作，设计和提供课程和研究经验。该项目的评估将收集该项目在支持改善土著学生STEM成果方面的有效性的证据。所产生的知识将在出版物和演示文稿中传播，并将有助于知识库增加STEM学位和职业中原住民的代表性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。