Building Capacity: STEM Student Success from Two-year to Four-year Institutions through Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences

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。该项目将通过在代数、生物和化学入门课程中增加基于课程的本科研究经验（CUREs）来推进HSI计划的目标，这些课程是进入STEM专业的门户。该项目是迈阿密戴德学院（美国最大的两年制HSI）、佛罗里达大学和迈阿密大学之间的合作项目。该项目预测，增加cure课程将改善本科生的学习体验，从而支持增加获得STEM学科副学士学位的学生人数，并提高学生转学到四年制院校的成功率。该项目将确定提高本科生STEM学位课程的保留率和完成率的因素，包括西班牙裔和服务不足的学生。该项目旨在通过增加训练有素的STEM专业人员的数量来丰富STEM劳动力。该项目的目标是通过采用cure注入的STEM门户活动来提高本科STEM学位的持久性和完成度。该项目旨在提高对门户课程中cure和其他教育支持的整合如何影响本科生的保留率和完成率的理解。教师将参与专业发展活动，将CUREs纳入STEM数学，生物和化学的入门课程。门户课程中的CUREs旨在通过让学生参与具有现实世界经验的情境化学习来增强学生的体验。在cure注入的STEM课程中，学生将设计自己的调查，撰写科学研究论文，并在公开海报会议上展示他们的发现。来自佛罗里达大学和迈阿密大学的高年级本科生和研究生，以及迈阿密戴德学院教授入门课程的教师，将在迈阿密戴德学院领导真正的研究实验室。通过课程改进和教师专业发展，该项目旨在1)提高STEM学生在数学、生物和化学等学科中加入cure的STEM入门课程的比例；2)增加从第一门连续STEM课程到第二门连续STEM课程的本科生人数；3)在三年内增加完成STEM副学士学位的本科生人数；4)提高成功转入STEM学士学位课程的学生比例；5)增加STEM教师的数量，教授cure注入的STEM课程；6)增加参加cure - STEM课程的学生人数。通过收集和分析定量和定性数据，该项目可以产生新的知识，了解刺激学生在社区学院水平上坚持和完成STEM的因素。该项目旨在开发一种模式，将CUREs整合到STEM课程中，这可能对其他机构，特别是为西班牙裔服务的社区学院有用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 about how to achieve these aims. This project will advance the aims of the HSI Program by adding course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) to introductory algebra, biology, and chemistry courses, which serve as gateways into STEM majors. This project is a collaboration between Miami Dade College, the largest two-year HSI in the nation, the University of Florida, and the University of Miami. The project predicts that the addition of CURES will enhance the undergraduate learning experience, thus supporting increases in the number of students obtaining associate degrees in STEM disciplines and in the success of students in transferring to four-year institutions. The project will identify factors for increasing retention and completion rates in STEM degree programs for undergraduates, including Hispanic and underserved students. The project seeks to enrich the STEM workforce by increasing the number of trained STEM professionals.The goal of the project is to increase undergraduate persistence and completion in the STEM degrees through the adoption of CURE-infused STEM gateway activities. This project aims to improve understanding of how integration of CUREs and other educational supports in gateway courses will affect retention and completion rates of undergraduate students. Faculty will participate in professional development activities to incorporate CUREs into STEM gateway courses in mathematics, biology, and chemistry. The CUREs in gateway courses will be designed to enhance the student experience by engaging students in contextualized learning with real world experiences. The students in the CURE-infused STEM courses will devise their own investigations, write a scientific research paper, and present their findings at a public poster session. The senior undergraduate students and graduate students from the University of Florida and the University of Miami, along with the faculty from Miami Dade College teaching the gateway courses, will lead authentic research laboratories at Miami Dade College. Through curricular enhancement, together with faculty professional development, this project seeks to 1) increase the percentage of STEM students enrolled in CURE-infused STEM gateway courses in the disciplines of mathematics, biology, and chemistry; 2) increase the number of undergraduates continuing from a first to a second sequential STEM course; 3) increase the number of undergraduates completing a STEM associate degree in three years; 4) increase the percentage of students successfully transferring into STEM baccalaureate programs; 5) increase the number of STEM faculty teaching CURE-infused STEM courses; and 6) increase the number of students participating in CURE-infused STEM courses. By collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, the project can generate new knowledge about the factors that stimulate student persistence and completion in STEM at the Community College level. The project seeks to develop a model for integrating CUREs into the STEM curriculum that could be useful to other institutions, especially Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges.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.