Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES Alliance: STEM Core Expansion

合作研究：NSF 包括联盟：STEM 核心扩展

• 批准号: 1834628
• 负责人: Jim Zoval
• 金额: $ 881.98万
• 依托单位: Saddleback College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834628&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance

The STEM Core Alliance is an expansion of the basic STEM Core Initiative Design and Development Launch Pilot (NSF Award 1649381), which was implemented in 15 community colleges in three states to broaden participation in STEM disciplines through promoting remedial student advancement to calculus readiness, followed by continuing STEM internship and education. The STEM Core Alliance expands the basic STEM Core model to 17 additional colleges in 5 states through a hub and spoke network, supported by four regional hubs, designed to support continuous improvement, expansion, and replicability. The underlying STEM Core vision is to broaden participation among underprepared community college students through evidence-based practices that address barriers to accessing STEM Pathways. The STEM Core Alliance will seek to contribute to the knowledge base on broadening participation through four levels of action: student, institutional, regional, and national. Under the leadership of Saddleback College and with the expertise of the backbone organization, Growth Sector, 15 community colleges in three states have already implemented and 15 more and two additional states have committed to implement the STEM Core as part of a networked improvement community. They will share best practices, benefit from alliance-wide professional development, analyze data and evaluate the model's effectiveness, and identify additional funding streams to support the model beyond the current project. The regional hub institutions will provide the necessary infrastructure to monitor and assist STEM Core implementation at regional colleges on a continual basis. Multi-stakeholder partnerships with employers will provide STEM Core colleges with internship and work-based learning opportunities with employers and provide employers with a steady stream of qualified STEM students. This model enables the network to be expanded rapidly, as hubs can support 6-12 colleges with moderate investment and technical assistance from the backbone. The nation's thousands of community colleges, with similar missions, structures, and curricula, present a ready-made network for expansion. As the STEM Core expands, the alliance will contribute to the body of knowledge about networked improvement community effectiveness and identify opportunities for collaboration among other NSF INCLUDES alliances. In the short and especially the long term this project will produce, through increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields, the benefits of enhancing progress in science and advancing national prosperity and welfare. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is co-funded by the NSF Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program, which seeks to increase the retention and graduation rates of students pursuing associate or baccalaureate degrees in STEM.To address barriers to STEM pathways, the STEM Core vision is to use the evidence-based practices of acceleration, cohort-based learning communities, contextualized learning, intensive support, and integrated internships. Contributions to the knowledge base on broadening participation will be made as follows. At the student level, the Alliance will evaluate the success in calculus readiness and advancement into STEM educational and career pathways for remedial students. At the institutional level, the goal will be for colleges to expand STEM pipelines for remedial students and to address underlying institutional low expectations for remedial students. The regional level goal is for regional hubs to sustain and expand STEM Core implementation in regional and statewide networks, ultimately increasing the number of colleges that implement the STEM Core model. Nationally, the alliance will expand the STEM Core network and impacts by adding colleges that adopt the STEM Core model and by sharing best practices and solutions to scale the STEM Core model nationwide. The regional hub institutions, as well as assisting STEM Core implementation at regional colleges, will coordinate professional development, conduct regular regional meetings and annual national alliance convenings, and coordinate the collection of regional student outcome data. STEM research and work opportunities that are not normally available to community college students will be provided by NASA JPL, Lawrence Livermore National Lab and other national laboratories that will provide internships for STEM Core students, giving them valuable contextualized experiences in STEM fields that may lead to STEM careers. As the backbone organization for the STEM Core Alliance, Growth Sector coordinates alliance-wide activities, communications, collaboration, and data collection and dissemination between Saddleback College, the regional hub institutions, and the 30 partner colleges, as well as the external evaluator and employer partners. The STEM Core Alliance's network incorporates leadership from Saddleback College, Growth Sector in the role of the backbone organization, and regional hubs to coordinate activities among partner colleges. This hub and spoke model enables regional leaders to implement the STEM Core reliably at scale, considering regional differences, populations, and needs in order to adapt the model appropriately.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is co-funded by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education:Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program, which seeks to increase the retention and graduation rates of students pursuing associate or baccalaureate degrees in STEM.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.

STEM核心联盟是基础STEM核心倡议设计和开发启动试点（NSF奖1649381）的扩展，该试点在三个州的15所社区学院实施，通过促进补修学生提高到微积分准备水平，然后继续STEM实习和教育，扩大STEM学科的参与。STEM核心联盟通过一个由四个区域中心支持的轮辐网络，将基本的STEM核心模式扩展到5个州的另外17所大学，旨在支持持续改进、扩展和可复制性。STEM核心的基本愿景是通过基于证据的实践，解决进入STEM途径的障碍，扩大准备不足的社区大学生的参与。STEM核心联盟将寻求通过学生、机构、区域和国家四个层面的行动，为扩大参与的知识库做出贡献。在马鞍峰学院的领导下，在骨干组织“增长部门”的专业知识下，三个州的15所社区学院已经实施了STEM核心，另有15所社区学院和另外两个州承诺实施STEM核心，作为网络化改进社区的一部分。他们将分享最佳实践，从联盟范围内的专业发展中受益，分析数据并评估模型的有效性，并确定在当前项目之外支持该模型的额外资金流。区域中心机构将提供必要的基础设施，以持续监测和协助区域学院实施STEM核心课程。与雇主的多方利益相关者合作将为STEM核心学院提供与雇主一起实习和基于工作的学习机会，并为雇主提供稳定的合格STEM学生流。这种模式使网络能够快速扩展，因为枢纽可以支持6-12所学院，而骨干的投资和技术援助适中。全国数以千计的社区学院有着相似的使命、结构和课程，提供了一个现成的扩展网络。随着STEM核心的扩展，该联盟将为网络改进社区有效性的知识体系做出贡献，并确定其他NSF INCLUDES联盟之间的合作机会。在短期内，特别是长期内，本项目将通过增加未被充分代表的群体在STEM领域的参与，产生促进科学进步和促进国家繁荣和福利的好处。NSF INCLUDES联盟由NSF西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划共同资助，该计划旨在提高攻读STEM副学士学位或学士学位的学生的保留率和毕业率。为了解决STEM路径的障碍，STEM核心愿景是使用基于证据的加速实践、基于队列的学习社区、情境化学习、强化支持和综合实习。将对关于扩大参与的知识库作出如下贡献。在学生层面，联盟将评估学生在微积分准备和进入STEM教育和职业道路方面的成功。在机构层面，目标将是让大学为补习学生扩大STEM管道，并解决机构对补习学生的潜在低期望。区域层面的目标是让区域中心在区域和全州网络中维持和扩大STEM核心的实施，最终增加实施STEM核心模式的大学数量。在全国范围内，该联盟将通过增加采用STEM核心模式的大学，并通过分享最佳实践和解决方案，在全国范围内扩展STEM核心模式，扩大STEM核心网络和影响。区域中心机构，以及协助STEM核心在区域大学的实施，将协调专业发展，定期举行区域会议和年度国家联盟会议，并协调区域学生成果数据的收集。社区大学生通常无法获得的STEM研究和工作机会将由NASA喷气推进实验室、劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室和其他国家实验室提供，这些实验室将为STEM核心学生提供实习机会，为他们提供在STEM领域的宝贵背景经验，这些经验可能会导致STEM职业生涯。作为STEM核心联盟的骨干组织，增长部门协调马鞍峰学院、区域中心机构、30个合作院校以及外部评估机构和雇主合作伙伴之间的联盟范围内的活动、沟通、协作和数据收集和传播。STEM核心联盟的网络包括来自马鞍峰学院的领导，作为骨干组织的增长部门，以及协调合作学院之间活动的区域中心。这种轮辐模型使地区领导者能够在考虑地区差异、人口和需求的情况下，大规模地可靠地实施STEM核心，以便适当地调整模型。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟是由NSF改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划共同资助的，该计划旨在提高攻读STEM副学士学位或学士学位的学生的保留率和毕业率。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。