Catalyzing New Practices for the San Joaquin Valley to Innovate Effective Teaching Pedagogies in Lower-Division Mathematics and Chemistry Courses

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这个Track 1项目旨在设计、提供和测试三所西班牙裔服务机构在STEM中的教学新实践，这三所机构是圣华金山谷加州州立大学(CSU)系统的一部分：CSU Stanislaus、CSU Fresno和CSU Bakersfield。该项目将开发和提供创新的夏季静修课程，名为IDEAS Labs，供STEM教师参与一个新颖的协作过程，以适应和发展使用显式创造性问题解决(CPS)方法的高影响力实践(HIPS)。该项目将加强每个机构的教师学习计划(FLP)，以在学年期间提供HIPS教师发展。该项目的目的是让STEM教师在他们的数学和化学课程教学中使用HIPS，以提高学生的学习成绩和保留率。空气污染将作为内容平台的首要主题，用于加强数学和化学课程的教学。这个项目有可能显著影响合作的HSI学生的保留率和毕业率，并增加STEM中代表性不足的学生的数量。该项目将由三个HSI领导，重点是教师发展，包括兼职教师和兼职教师，以改善他们的教学实践，以提高学生的成就、留存和动力。三个合作机构中的每一个都将专注于给学生带来最大挑战的STEM学科。CSU Bakersfield将专注于化学，CSU Stanislaus将专注于数学，CSU Fresno将专注于数学和化学。一个由社会科学和STEM研究人员组成的团队将领导这个项目，以评估Ideas实验室和FLP如何更好地让STEM教师在他们的教学方法中使用HIPS来提高学生的学习能力。特别是，该项目将评估IDEAS实验室和FLP如何提高西班牙裔、第一代和/或低收入学生在较低级别STEM课程中的坚持性和成功。该项目的调查结果旨在展示对三个合作的HSI的一大群不同学生的影响，以产生关于新的和现有的HIP如何带来更公平的STEM学习体验的新知识。通过IDEAS实验室设计的新的HIP将通过各种方式广泛传播和分享，包括在会议和CSU系统会议上的陈述，以及一个项目网站。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to design, deliver, and test new practices for teaching in STEM at three Hispanic-Serving Institutions which are part of the California State University (CSU) system in the San Joaquin Valley: CSU Stanislaus, CSU Fresno, and CSU Bakersfield. The project will develop and offer innovative summer retreats, called Ideas Labs, for STEM faculty to engage in a novel collaborative process to adapt and develop High Impact Practices (HIPs) using explicit Creative Problem Solving (CPS) methodology.The project will enhance each institution's Faculty Learning Program (FLP) to provide faculty development on HIPs during the academic year. The aim of the project is for STEM faculty to use HIPs in their teaching of mathematics and chemistry courses to improve students' academic performance and retention rates. Air pollution will serve as an overarching theme for the content platform which will be used to enhance the pedagogy in both mathematics and chemistry courses. This project has potential to significantly impact the retention and graduation rates students in the collaborating HSIs, and increase the numbers of underrepresented students in STEM. The project will be led by three HSIs with a focus on faculty development, including part-time faculty and adjunct faculty, to improve their teaching practice in ways that will improve student achievement, retention, and motivation. Each of the three collaborating institutions will focus on STEM disciplines that present the greatest challenges for their students. CSU Bakersfield will focus on Chemistry, CSU Stanislaus will focus on mathematics, and CSU Fresno will focus on mathematics and chemistry. A team of social science and STEM researchers will lead the project to assess the how the Ideas Labs retreat and FLP better equip STEM faculty to employ HIPs in their pedagogy to enhance student learning. In particular, the project will assess the impact on how the Ideas Labs and FLP improve the persistence and success of the Hispanic, first generation, and/or low-income students in lower-division STEM courses. Project findings seek to represent impact on a large, diverse group of students at the three collaborating HSIs to generate new knowledge on how both new and current HIPs on lead to a more equitable STEM learning experience. The new HIPs designed through the Ideas Lab will be disseminated and shared broadly through various modalities, including presentations at conferences and CSU system meetings and also a project website. The 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 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.