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

在美国国家科学基金会改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划的支持下，这个第一阶段项目“科学、技术、工程和数学的文化响应教育（CRESCENT）”旨在加强机构的能力，以提高代表性不足的少数民族学生（URM）的入学率、保有率和毕业率。该项目的目标是为URM学生提供创新机会，以提高他们的教育水平，增强可转移技能，并为地区和国家对多样化和有能力的STEM劳动力的需求做出贡献，以应对21世纪的社会挑战。新月是建立在传统大学与华盛顿州中南部农村地区的K-12学校、社区学院和研究密集型机构的长期合作基础上的，旨在提高URM的参与度，特别是针对亚基马山谷的西班牙裔和美洲原住民学生。新月计划的活动包括通过ESCALA计划为STEM教师提供专业发展的创新战略，通过机构合作加强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的数量和多样性。新月计划活动将赋予教师创新和可持续的教学策略，以教学URM的学生，并准备下一代的全球公民具有广泛的知识和基本的生活技能，在21世纪的快速变化的环境中取得成功。新月网络将探索影响STEM看门人课程成功的因素，以及在最具影响力和关键的教育转型中限制URM学生参与和进入STEM职业的看门人，测试将这些看门人转变为积极力量的创新模式。CRESCENT是一项能力建设计划，旨在促进教师发展、加强课程、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、2)大学第一学期和第二学期、3)从低年级到高年级课程，以及4)从STEM学科的本科和研究生机构之间的关键过渡。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能提高学生在STEM学科中的表现以及学术和职业生涯的发展。“新月”项目旨在扩大与地区高中的可持续合作网络，以增加URM STEM准备的第一代本科新生数量，增加URM学生申请STEM学科的数量，并在项目期间增加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继续在STEM学科进行研究生学习的人数。项目成果将与其他寻求提高保留率和毕业率的hsi共享，从而对全国STEM URM队列产生乘数影响。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 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.