Fostering an Equity-minded Student Success Culture in STEM Through Faculty Development

通过教师发展在 STEM 领域培养注重公平的学生成功文化

• 批准号: 1928737
• 负责人: Ciaran Brewster
• 金额: $ 249.34万
• 依托单位: Santa Monica College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928737&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fostering; Equity; minded; Student; Success

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (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. With HSI program support, this Track 1 project at Santa Monica College (SMC) aims to identify, implement and investigate interventions that enhance the success and subsequent graduation of Hispanic and other underrepresented STEM students through the use of culturally responsive and effective classroom-based curricular materials and instructional practices focused on STEM. SMC will bring together the equity-focused work of the college's Science and Research Initiative and the Center for Teaching Excellence to implement a three-pronged approach that includes faculty professional development, pilot and assessment of research-based innovations, and dissemination of project outcomes both internally and externally. This project will target first year and other tenure track STEM faculty and provide them with release time so that they may participate in a 2-year professional development program and allocate the time necessary to develop and implement effective equity-minded interventions in their courses. By assessing the impact of both the innovations and the professional development, SMC will establish a toolbox of effective practices that can be used by STEM and non-STEM faculty, as well as a professional development strategy that can be sustained beyond the grant period for ongoing delivery to new faculty. The project will build upon research-based effective practice currently underway at SMC's Science and Research Initiative, as well as research from the field, to explore and further assess innovative approaches to community college student success in STEM. The project will identify effective strategies for engaging the faculty in change-focused activities designed to improve student success through critical transitions, thereby helping the numerous colleges across the country that are struggling to bridge the cultural divide between STEM faculty and a culturally diverse student population. The project will assess not only the impact of the proposed innovations on student ability to successfully transition, but also the degree to which the professional development contributes to teaching effectiveness, student sense of belonging and learning, and departmental and institutional culture. Project evaluation will assess the quality of the program and its ability to achieve grant goals and long-term project outcomes, as well as provide ongoing feedback to suggest improvements in implementation. The research focus of this project is to identify effective pedagogical strategies and methods of teaching that positively impact student success and successful transitions. The research will use a quasi-experimental design to assess each intervention, using a combination of both qualitative and quantitative indicators to answer both implementation and outcome evaluation questions. Project summative evaluation and research includes conducting a pre- and post- assessment of all students impacted by the project at both the beginning and end of each academic year, immediately after they graduate, and again one year after program completion. Project data will be disaggregated by race/ethnicity, income status, and gender. Project results will be disseminated at regional and national conferences. 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.

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并在HSI建立能力。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。在HSI项目的支持下，圣莫尼卡学院（SMC）的这个1轨项目旨在通过使用文化响应和有效的课堂课程材料和专注于STEM的教学实践，识别、实施和调查干预措施，提高西班牙裔和其他代表性不足的STEM学生的成功和随后的毕业。SMC将把学院的科学与研究计划和卓越教学中心的以公平为重点的工作结合起来，实施三管齐下的方法，包括教师专业发展，基于研究的创新的试点和评估，以及内部和外部项目成果的传播。该项目将针对一年级和其他STEM终身教职教师，为他们提供释放时间，以便他们可以参加为期两年的专业发展计划，并分配必要的时间，在他们的课程中开发和实施有效的公平思维干预。通过评估创新和专业发展的影响，SMC将建立一个可供STEM和非STEM教师使用的有效实践工具箱，以及一个可以在资助期之后持续向新教师提供的专业发展战略。该项目将以SMC科学与研究计划目前正在进行的基于研究的有效实践为基础，以及来自该领域的研究，探索和进一步评估社区大学生在STEM方面取得成功的创新方法。该项目将确定有效的策略，让教师参与以变革为中心的活动，旨在通过关键的转变提高学生的成功，从而帮助全国众多正在努力弥合STEM教师和文化多样化学生群体之间的文化鸿沟的大学。这项计划不仅会评估建议的创新对学生成功过渡能力的影响，还会评估专业发展对教学成效、学生归属感和学习感、院系和院校文化的贡献程度。项目评估将评估项目的质量及其实现赠款目标和长期项目成果的能力，并提供持续的反馈，以建议改进实施。这个项目的研究重点是确定有效的教学策略和教学方法，积极影响学生的成功和成功的过渡。该研究将使用准实验设计来评估每项干预措施，使用定性和定量指标的组合来回答实施和结果评估问题。项目总结性评估和研究包括对所有受项目影响的学生在每个学年的开始和结束时，在他们毕业后立即进行评估，并在项目完成一年后再次进行评估。项目数据将按种族/民族、收入状况和性别分类。项目结果将在区域和国家会议上传播。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。