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

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。与HSI计划的支持下，在圣莫尼卡学院（SMC）的这个轨道1项目旨在确定，实施和调查干预措施，通过使用文化上敏感和有效的课堂为基础的课程材料和教学实践，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将汇集学院的科学和研究计划和卓越教学中心的公平为重点的工作，实施三管齐下的方法，包括教师专业发展，试点和基于研究的创新评估，以及项目成果的传播内部和外部。该项目将针对第一年和其他终身教职的STEM教师，并为他们提供释放时间，以便他们可以参加为期2年的专业发展计划，并分配必要的时间在他们的课程中制定和实施有效的公平干预措施。通过评估创新和专业发展的影响，SMC将建立一个有效的实践工具箱，可供STEM和非STEM教师使用，以及一个专业发展战略，可以在赠款期后持续向新教师提供服务。该项目将建立在SMC的科学和研究计划目前正在进行的基于研究的有效实践，以及来自该领域的研究，以探索和进一步评估社区大学学生在STEM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重点的活动，旨在通过关键的过渡提高学生的成功，从而帮助全国各地的许多大学努力弥合STEM教师和文化多样性学生群体之间的文化鸿沟。 该项目不仅将评估拟议创新对学生成功过渡能力的影响，还将评估专业发展对教学效率、学生归属感和学习感以及部门和机构文化的贡献程度。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，以建议改进执行情况。该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。这项研究将采用准实验设计来评估每项干预措施，同时采用定性和定量指标来回答执行和成果评价问题。项目总结性评估和研究包括在每个学年的开始和结束时对受项目影响的所有学生进行预评估和后评估，在他们毕业后立即进行，并在项目完成后一年再次进行。项目数据将按种族/族裔、收入状况和性别分列。项目成果将在区域和国家会议上传播。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。

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.