Building Capacity: Infusing Research as Pedagogy

能力建设：将研究融入教学法

• 批准号: 1832425
• 负责人: Faraz Siddique
• 金额: $ 149.91万
• 依托单位: Union County 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: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832425&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Infusing; Research; Pedagogy

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project at Union County College will advance the aims of the HSI Program by integrating research into undergraduate STEM courses. The project plans to embed course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) into STEM gateway courses, support independent research experiences during the academic year, and develop a summer research academy. The project aims to provide students with research opportunities that increase student engagement, critical thinking skills, retention and graduation rates, and transfer into a STEM major at a four-year institution. Union County College has an economically, racially, and ethnically diverse student body. Consequently, this project can contribute to building a diverse STEM workforce. The project will examine how research opportunities may increase student engagement, critical thinking skills, student retention and graduation, and transfer into a baccalaureate STEM program. The project includes three coordinated interventions: 1) integrating course-based research into eight STEM gateway courses; 2) supporting independent student-driven research experiences; and 3) creating a summer research academy. These interventions will incorporate student-driven research into the curriculum, enhancing the traditional community college learning experience. The project will assess the impact of research experiences by comparing baseline and post-intervention populations using the Critical-Thinking Assessment Test instrument. In each of the three interventions, the project will use this instrument to determine critical thinking skills at the beginning and completion of the interventions. Students will also be tracked to examine retention in the major. Finally, data will be collected on student performance including grades, enrollment in STEM courses, and graduation and transfer rates. To examine the impact of CURES, a comparison will be made between students who participate in the CURES and baseline data for STEM majors. Students in the academic year research projects and research academy will be compared to students who did not participate, as well as to the college's baseline data. It is anticipated that the project may serve as a model for both two- and four-year institutions seeking to develop a research as pedagogy curriculum model to build critical thinking skills.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.

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。联合县学院的这个项目将通过将研究融入本科STEM课程来推进HSI计划的目标。 该项目计划将基于课程的本科生研究经验（CURES）嵌入STEM网关课程，支持学年期间的独立研究经验，并开发夏季研究学院。该项目旨在为学生提供研究机会，提高学生参与度，批判性思维能力，保留率和毕业率，并在四年制院校转入STEM专业。联合县学院有一个经济，种族和民族多样化的学生团体。 因此，这个项目可以有助于建立一个多元化的STEM劳动力。该项目将研究如何研究机会可以提高学生的参与度，批判性思维能力，学生保留和毕业，并转移到学士学位STEM计划。该项目包括三个协调的干预措施：1）将基于课程的研究整合到八门STEM网关课程中; 2）支持独立的学生驱动的研究经验; 3）创建一个夏季研究学院。这些干预措施将把学生驱动的研究纳入课程，加强传统的社区大学的学习经验。该项目将通过使用批判性思维评估测试工具比较基线和干预后人群，评估研究经验的影响。在三个干预措施中，项目将使用该工具来确定干预措施开始和完成时的批判性思维技能。学生也将被跟踪检查保留在主要。最后，将收集学生表现的数据，包括成绩、STEM课程的入学率、毕业率和转学率。为了检查治疗的影响，将比较参加治疗的学生和STEM专业的基线数据。参加学年研究项目和研究学院的学生将与没有参加的学生以及学院的基线数据进行比较。预计该项目可以作为一个模式，为两个两年制和四年制的机构寻求开发一个研究作为教学课程模式，以建立批判性思维技能。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。