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

在“改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）”的支持下，该项目旨在设计、交付和测试三家西班牙裔服务机构的STEM教学新实践，这三家机构是圣华金河谷加州州立大学（CSU）系统的一部分：CSU斯坦尼斯劳斯分校、CSU弗雷斯诺分校和CSU贝克斯菲尔德分校。该项目将开发并提供名为Ideas Labs的创新暑期务静会，让STEM教师参与一种新颖的协作过程，以采用明确的创造性问题解决（CPS）方法来适应和开发高影响力实践（HIPs）。该项目将加强各院校的教师学习计划（FLP），在学年期间提供教师在HIPs方面的发展。该项目的目的是让STEM教师在数学和化学课程的教学中使用HIPs，以提高学生的学习成绩和保留率。空气污染将成为内容平台的首要主题，该平台将用于加强数学和化学课程的教学。该项目有可能显著影响合作hsi学生的保留率和毕业率，并增加STEM中代表性不足的学生人数。该项目将由三个hsi领导，重点关注教师发展，包括兼职教师和兼职教师，以改善他们的教学实践，从而提高学生的成绩、留校率和积极性。这三家合作机构都将专注于为学生带来最大挑战的STEM学科。科罗拉多州立大学贝克斯菲尔德分校将专注于化学，科罗拉多州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯分校将专注于数学，科罗拉多州立大学弗雷斯诺分校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该项目，以评估创意实验室和FLP如何更好地装备STEM教师，使他们在教学中采用HIPs来提高学生的学习。特别是，该项目将评估创意实验室和FLP如何提高西班牙裔、第一代和/或低收入家庭学生在低年级STEM课程中的坚持和成功的影响。项目研究结果旨在代表对三个合作hsi的大量不同学生群体的影响，以产生新的知识，了解新的和现有的HIPs如何带来更公平的STEM学习体验。通过创意实验室设计的新HIPs将通过各种方式广泛传播和分享，包括在会议和CSU系统会议上的演讲以及项目网站。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。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。

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.