NSF INCLUDES Alliance: STEM PUSH (Pathways for Underrepresented Students to Higher Education) Network

NSF 包括联盟：STEM PUSH（弱势学生接受高等教育的途径）网络

• 批准号: 1930990
• 负责人: Alison Legg
• 金额: $ 1000万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930990&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance; STEM; PUSH

Diversity in the STEM workforce is essential for expanding the talent pool and bringing new ideas to bear in solving societal problems, yet entrenched gaps remain. In STEM higher education, students from certain racial and ethnic groups continue to be underrepresented in STEM majors and fields. Colleges and universities have responded by offering precollege STEM programs to high school students from predominantly underrepresented groups. These programs have been shown to positively affect students' analytical and critical thinking skills, STEM content knowledge and exposure, and self-efficacy through STEM-focused enrichment and research experiences. In fact, salient research suggests that out-of-school-time, precollege STEM experiences are key influencers in students' pursuit of STEM majors and careers, and underscore the value of precollege STEM programs in their ability to prepare students in STEM. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance: STEM PUSH - Pathways for Underrepresented Students to Higher Education Network - will form a national network of precollege STEM programs to actualize their value through the creation, spread and scale of an equitable, evidence-based pathway for university admissions - precollege STEM program accreditation. Building on several successful NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots, this Alliance will use a networked improvement community approach to transform college admissions by establishing an accreditation process for precollege STEM programs in which standards-based credentials serve as indicators of program quality that are recognized by colleges and universities as rigorous and worthy of favorable consideration during undergraduate admissions processes. Given the high enrollment of students from underrepresented groups in precollege STEM programs, the Alliance endeavors to broaden participation in STEM by maximizing college access and STEM outcomes in higher education and beyond.The STEM PUSH Network is a national alliance of precollege STEM programs, STEM and culturally responsive pedagogy experts, formal and informal education practitioners, college admissions professionals, the accreditation sector, and other higher education representatives. The Alliance will establish a formidable collaborative improvement space using the networked improvement community model and a "next generation" accreditation model that will serve as a mechanism for communicating the power of precollege programs to admissions offices. Framing this work is the notion that the accreditation of precollege STEM programs is an equitable supplemental admissions criterion to the current, often cited as a culturally biased, standardized test score-based system. To achieve its shared vision and goals, the Alliance has four key objectives: (1) establish and support a national precollege STEM program networked community, (2) develop a standards-based precollege STEM program accreditation system to broaden participation in STEM, (3) test and validate the model within the networked improvement community, and (4) spread, scale, and sustain the model through its backbone organization, the STEM Learning Ecosystem Community of Practice. Each objective will be closely monitored and evaluated by an external evaluator. In addition, the data infrastructure developed through this Alliance will provide an unprecedented opportunity to advance scholarship in the fields of networked improvement community design and development, the efficacy of STEM precollege programs, and effective practices for broadening participation pathways from high school to higher education. By the end of five years, the STEM PUSH Network will transform ten urban ecosystems across the country into communities where students from underrepresented groups have increased college access and therefore, entree to STEM opportunities and majors in higher education. The model has the potential to be replicated by another 80 STEM ecosystems that will have access to Alliance materials and strategies through the backbone organization. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. It is also co-funded by the NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers program and the Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program.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.

STEM劳动力的多样性对于扩大人才库和为解决社会问题带来新的想法至关重要，但根深蒂固的差距仍然存在。在STEM高等教育中，来自某些种族和族裔群体的学生在STEM专业和领域的代表性仍然不足。学院和大学的回应是为来自代表性不足的群体的高中生提供大学预科STEM课程。这些计划已被证明积极影响学生的分析和批判性思维能力，STEM内容知识和曝光，并通过STEM为重点的丰富和研究经验的自我效能。事实上，突出的研究表明，校外，学前STEM经验是学生追求STEM专业和职业的关键影响因素，并强调学前STEM课程在培养学生STEM能力方面的价值。该NSF包括联盟：STEM PUSH -代表性不足的学生高等教育网络的途径-将形成一个全国性的学前STEM项目网络，通过创建，传播和扩大公平的，以证据为基础的大学入学途径来实现其价值-学前STEM项目认证。在几个成功的NSF INCLUDES设计和开发启动试点的基础上，该联盟将使用网络化的改进社区方法，通过建立大学预科STEM课程的认证流程来改变大学招生，其中基于标准的证书作为项目质量的指标，这些指标被学院和大学认可为严格的，值得在本科生招生过程中给予有利的考虑。鉴于大学前STEM项目中代表性不足的群体的学生入学率很高，该联盟致力于通过最大限度地提高大学入学率和高等教育及其他领域的STEM成果来扩大STEM的参与。STEM PUSH Network是一个由大学前STEM项目、STEM和文化敏感的教育学专家、正规和非正规教育从业人员、大学招生专业人员、认证部门、和其他高等教育代表。该联盟将建立一个强大的协作改进空间，使用网络改进社区模型和“下一代”认证模型，作为将大学预科课程的力量传达给招生办公室的机制。 这项工作的框架是这样一个概念，即对大学预科STEM课程的认证是对当前招生标准的一个公平的补充，通常被认为是一个有文化偏见的标准化考试成绩为基础的系统。为了实现共同的愿景和目标，联盟有四个主要目标：（1）建立和支持一个全国性的学前STEM项目网络社区，（2）开发一个基于标准的学前STEM项目认证系统，以扩大STEM的参与，（3）在网络改进社区内测试和验证模型，（4）通过其骨干组织传播，扩展和维持模型，STEM学习生态系统实践社区。每项目标都将由一名外部评价员密切监测和评价。此外，通过该联盟开发的数据基础设施将提供前所未有的机会，以促进网络改进社区设计和开发领域的奖学金，STEM学前教育计划的有效性，以及从高中到高等教育拓宽参与途径的有效实践。到五年结束时，STEM PUSH网络将把全国十个城市生态系统转变为社区，来自代表性不足群体的学生增加了上大学的机会，因此，进入STEM机会和高等教育专业。该模式有可能被另外80个STEM生态系统复制，这些生态系统将通过骨干组织获得联盟的材料和战略。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟由NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家计划，旨在通过关注多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该奖项也由NSF学生和教师创新技术体验项目和推进非正式STEM学习项目共同资助。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。

项目成果

Broadening equity through recruitment: Pre-college STEM program recruitment in literature and practice.

• DOI: pii: https://www.nsta.org/connected-science-learning/connected-science-learning-november-december-2021/broadening-equity
• 发表时间: 2021-11
• 期刊: Connected science learning
• 作者: Delale-O'Connor L;Allen A;Ball M;Boone D;Gonda R;Iriti J;Legg AS
• 通讯作者: Legg AS

Leveraging Out-of-School STEM Programs During COVID-19

在 COVID-19 期间利用校外 STEM 项目

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Connected science learning
• 作者: Allen, A.;Ball, M.;Bild, D.;Boone, D.;Briggs, D.;Davis, D.;Delale-O’Connor, L.;Gonda, R.;Iriti, J.;Legg, A. S.
• 通讯作者: Legg, A. S.

Root cause analysis as a tool for forging shared vision and partnership: Lessons for strengthening the process.

根本原因分析作为建立共同愿景和伙伴关系的工具：加强这一过程的经验教训。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: NSF INCLUDES Rapid Community Reports
• 作者: Iriti, J.;Stol, T.;Sherer, J. Z.;Briggs, A.;& Slinskey Legg, A.
• 通讯作者: & Slinskey Legg, A.