Targeted Infusion Project: Creation of a for Credit Online Scientific Literacy Pre-Freshmen Summer Bridge Program

有针对性的注入项目：创建学分在线科学素养新生暑期桥梁项目

• 批准号: 1818618
• 负责人: Lycurgus Muldrow
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Morehouse 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: 2018-05-15 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Targeted; Infusion; Project; Creation; Credit

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. Morehouse College will implement a Targeted Infusion Project entitled: Creation of a for Credit Online scientific Literacy Pre-freshmen Summer Bridge Program. This highly innovative project will create a new category of problem-based learning products designed to facilitate student understanding of the scientific research process by using a virtual laboratory to simulate a research experience. Anticipated outcomes from this virtual research experience include increasing students? critical thinking skills, intrinsic motivation, self-management skills, utilitarian scientific literacy and intent to persist in STEM careers. The new category of problem-based learning products that will be created to infuse into the online Scientific Literacy course will occur by modifying an interdisciplinary research simulation case study (RSCS) entitled Brain Eating Amoeba. The RSCS is a faculty mentored experience that requires a student to solve a research case study by assuming the role of a research scientist. The RSCS Brain Eating Amoeba will be facilitated by a virtual embodied conversational agent (ECA) instead of a live faculty mentor. This computer-generated character is created from the face of a real individual and demonstrates many of the same properties as human face-to-face conversation, including the ability to produce and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. An embodied conversational agent-research simulation (ECA-RS) case study will be created by combining ECA technology with the comprehensive, interdisciplinary Brain Eating Amoeba RSCS. The addition of the Brain Eating Amoeba ECA-RS to the online course will enable its transition to a for-credit course that will be offered at no cost during the Pre-Freshmen Scientific Literacy Summer Bridge Program as an incentive for pre-freshmen to participate. The successful implementation of this program at Morehouse College will increase retention and ultimately graduation rates of African American students graduating with STEM degrees and entering into the national STEM workforce.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.

历史悠久的黑人学院大学本科课程（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和研究基于证据的创新模型和方法，以改善HBCU本科生的准备和成功，以便他们可以从事STEM研究生课程和/或职业。莫尔豪斯学院（Morehouse College）将实施一个题为：旨在创建供信用在线科学素养的夏季夏季桥梁计划的有针对性的输液项目。这个高度创新的项目将创建一个新的基于问题的学习产品，旨在通过使用虚拟实验室模拟研究经验来促进学生对科学研究过程的理解。这种虚拟研究经验的预期结果包括增加学生？批判性思维能力，内在动机，自我管理技能，功利主义科学素养以及持续在STEM职业中的意图。将通过修改题为“大脑食用变形虫”的跨学科研究模拟案例研究（RSCS），将创建新的基于问题的学习产品来注入在线科学扫盲课程中。 RSC是一种教师指导的经验，要求学生通过担任研究科学家的作用来解决研究案例研究。 RSCS脑食用变形虫将由虚拟体现的对话剂（ECA）而不是现场教师导师促进。这种计算机生成的角色是由真实个人的面孔创建的，并展示了与人类面对面对话相同的许多属性，包括产生和响应言语和非语言交流的能力。通过将ECA技术与全面的，跨学科的大脑食用Amoeba RSC相结合，将创建一个体现的对话代理研究模拟（ECA-RS）案例研究。在线课程中添加大脑食用变形虫ECA-RS将使其过渡到贷方课程，该课程将在票房前的科学素养夏季桥梁计划中免费提供，以激励前救援人员参加。该计划在莫尔豪斯学院（Morehouse College）的成功实施将提高保留率，并最终提高非裔美国学生的毕业，并以STEM学位毕业并进入国家STEM劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。