Culturally Responsive Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

科学、技术、工程和数学领域的文化响应教育

• 批准号: 1928570
• 负责人: Jessica Black
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: Heritage University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culturally; Responsive; Education; Science; Technology

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 1 project 'Culturally Responsive Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CRESCENT) ' aims to strengthen the institutional capacity for increasing the enrollment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented minority students (URM). The goal of the project is to provide innovative opportunities for URM students to improve their education, enhance transferable skills, and contribute to the regional and national need for a diverse and competent STEM workforce to address societal challenges of the 21st Century. CRESCENT is built on the longstanding collaboration of Heritage University with K-12 schools, community colleges and research-intensive institutions in rural south-central Washington State for increased URM participation, targeting in particular Hispanic and Native American students in the Yakima Valley. The CRESCENT project activities include innovative strategies for professional development of STEM faculty through the ESCALA program, STEM curriculum enhancement through institutional partnerships, offering experiential learning to students through hands-on research experiences and community outreach, and development of intensive culturally-responsive student support services to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing higher education in STEM disciplines. CRESCENT program activities will empower faculty with innovative and sustained pedagogical strategies for teaching URM students and prepare the next generation of global citizens with a breadth of knowledge and essential life skills to succeed in the rapidly changing milieu of the 21st Century.The CRESCENT network will explore factors influencing the success of STEM gatekeeper classes and gatekeepers at the most influential and critical educational transitions that are limiting URM student engagement and advancement into STEM careers, testing innovative models transforming these gatekeepers into positive forces. CRESCENT is a capacity building program for faculty development, curriculum enhancement, expanding diversity in educational institutions, and implementing student-centered activities focusing on critical transition of URM students from 1) secondary school to college, 2) between the first and second semester of college, 3) from lower division to upper division coursework, and 4) between undergraduate and graduate institutions in STEM disciplines. CRESCENT will test if applied culturally responsive active learning models for STEM teaching and student support services will improve student performance in STEM disciplines and academic and professional career advancement. The CRESCENT project aims to expand a sustainable collaborative network with regional high schools to increase the pool of URM STEM-prepared first-generation freshmen undergraduate students, increase the number of URM student applications indicating interest in STEM disciplines and increase in declarations of STEM majors during the project period, improve the performance and retention of URM STEM students, and increase the number of URM students who pursue graduate studies in STEM disciplines after completion of their undergraduate degrees. The project outcomes will be shared with other HSIs seeking to improve retention and graduation, resulting in multiplier impacts on STEM URM cohorts across the nation. 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 goals.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.

在NSF改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，这个轨道1项目“科学，技术，工程和数学的文化响应教育（CRESCENT）”旨在加强机构能力，以增加入学，保留和毕业人数不足的少数民族学生（URM）。该项目的目标是为URM学生提供创新的机会，以提高他们的教育，提高可转移的技能，并有助于区域和国家需要一个多样化的和有能力的干劳动力，以应对21世纪世纪的社会挑战。CRESCENT是建立在传统大学与K-12学校，社区学院和研究密集型机构在农村中南部华盛顿州增加URM的参与，特别是针对西班牙裔和美洲土著学生在亚基马山谷的长期合作。CRESCENT项目活动包括通过ESCALA计划促进STEM教师专业发展的创新战略，通过机构合作伙伴关系增强STEM课程，通过实践研究经验和社区外展为学生提供体验式学习，以及开发密集的文化响应学生支持服务，以增加在STEM学科接受高等教育的学生数量和多样性。CRESCENT项目活动将为教师提供创新和持续的教学策略，用于教授URM学生，并为下一代全球公民提供广泛的知识和基本生活技能，以便在快速变化的21世纪世纪环境中取得成功。CRESCENT网络将探索影响STEM看门人课程成功的因素，并在最具影响力和关键的教育转型中发挥作用，正在限制URM学生的参与和进入STEM职业的发展，测试将这些守门人转化为积极力量的创新模型。CRESCENT是一个能力建设计划，用于教师发展，课程改进，扩大教育机构的多样性，并实施以学生为中心的活动，重点关注URM学生从1）中学到大学的关键过渡，2）大学的第一和第二学期之间，3）从低年级到高年级的课程，以及4）本科和研究生机构之间的STEM学科。CRESCENT将测试应用于STEM教学和学生支持服务的文化响应型主动学习模式是否会提高学生在STEM学科以及学术和专业职业发展方面的表现。CRESCENT项目旨在扩大与区域高中的可持续合作网络，以增加URM STEM准备的第一代新生本科生的数量，增加URM学生申请的数量，表明对STEM学科感兴趣，并增加项目期间STEM专业的申报，提高URM STEM学生的表现和保留率，并增加URM学生在完成本科学位后攻读STEM学科研究生课程的人数。该项目的成果将与其他旨在提高保留率和毕业率的HSIs共享，从而对全国的STEM URM队列产生乘数影响。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。该奖项反映了NSF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。