Combing Andragogy and Pedagogy to Help First Generation, Low Income Students Succeed in Engineering

结合安德拉学和教育学，帮助第一代低收入学生在工程领域取得成功

• 批准号: 1953466
• 负责人: Patricia Sullivan
• 金额: $ 238.25万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Combing; Andragogy; Pedagogy; Help; First

Using Methods and Principles of Adult Learning to Help First-Generation, Low-Income Students Succeed in Engineering With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Innovative Cross-Sector Partnership project aims to foster upward social mobility by improving the rate at which first-generation students from low-income families graduate with an engineering degree. Persistently low graduation rates lessen the impact that universities play in facilitating social mobility. Hispanic Serving Institutions are well-equipped to improve access to college opportunities for first generation students, students from underrepresented groups, and students from low-income families, but often struggle to make math, science, and engineering curriculums relevant. Current engineering education practice does not adequately engage with industry to give students professional motivation, skills, and certifications. This leaves many low-income, first- generation students uncertain as to how their education relates to their current and future economic security. Less than half of engineering majors finish with engineering degrees that would qualify them for high paying jobs and technical careers. This project will focus on mentoring, career readiness, industry-accepted certifications to augment the engineering curriculum through engagement in flexible learning communities. Industry partnerships, innovative intervention strategies, and research findings will be used to foster STEM-identity and student’s understanding, appreciation and interest in STEM, known indicators for first-generation STEM degree completion. Anticipated outcomes of the project include an engaged community of career-ready advanced student learners supported by evidence-based intervention strategies, industry partners, and university faculty and staff prepared to contribute to their success. Approximately 800 students will be directly supported in the industry-mentored, adult learning experiences. The 5-year goal is to increase the graduation rate in engineering for first-generation college students and those from low-income households by 50%. The innovative partnership with industry to prepare students and help them acquire certifications will show first generation students and their families that real-world skills are valued by the university, and that they are achieving important milestones each year of their higher education (not just at the end). Higher (engineering) education in the US is being pulled in different directions to balance critical, reflective, and deep thinkers while providing tangible skills. By acknowledging this tension and building curriculum maps that intentionally blend the two directions, this project and partnerships will promote a new path to satisfying societal needs based on the unique attributes of Hispanic Serving Institutions. The project will test how andragogical (adult) learning methods, implemented in collaboration with industry, is linked to persistence within a traditional engineering curriculum at a majority-minority Hispanic Serving Institution. This study will follow students longitudinally to investigate how cross-sector collaborations influence educational outcomes and occupational success. Surveys will be used to investigate how activities that balance and blend andragogy and pedagogy contribute to student persistence by promoting the growth of engineering identity and professional confidence. Early results from the research will be used to integrate adult and industry-mentored learning into materials such as curriculum maps, catalog descriptions, websites, and student advising software. Continuous assessment of the outcomes will contribute to engineering education knowledge and stimulate discussion on how institutions can utilize learning communities and industry partnerships to improve the retention and subsequent social mobility for first generation, low income students. In addition to publications and conferences, project generated resources and findings will be dissemination through the HSI Resource Hub, a network of more than 450 HSIs, including those that receive little or no prior NSF support. 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.

使用成人学习的方法和原则，以帮助第一代，低收入学生成功的工程在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个创新的跨部门合作项目旨在通过提高低收入家庭的第一代学生毕业工程学位的比率，促进向上的社会流动性。持续的低毕业率削弱了大学在促进社会流动方面的作用。西班牙裔服务机构配备精良，以改善获得大学的机会，为第一代学生，学生从代表性不足的群体，和学生从低收入家庭，但往往难以使数学，科学和工程相关课程。目前的工程教育实践没有充分参与行业，为学生提供专业动机，技能和认证。这使得许多低收入的第一代学生不确定他们的教育与他们当前和未来的经济安全有何关系。只有不到一半的工程专业学生获得了工程学位，这将使他们有资格获得高薪工作和技术职业。该项目将侧重于指导，职业准备，行业认可的认证，以通过参与灵活的学习社区来增加工程课程。行业伙伴关系，创新的干预策略和研究成果将用于促进STEM身份和学生对STEM的理解，欣赏和兴趣，这是第一代STEM学位完成的已知指标。该项目的预期成果包括由循证干预战略、行业合作伙伴以及准备为他们的成功做出贡献的大学教职员工支持的职业准备就绪的高级学生参与社区。大约800名学生将直接获得行业指导的成人学习体验。五年目标是将第一代大学生和低收入家庭学生的工程毕业率提高50%。与行业的创新合作伙伴关系，以准备学生，并帮助他们获得认证将显示第一代学生和他们的家庭，现实世界的技能是由大学重视，他们正在实现他们的高等教育每年的重要里程碑（不只是在年底）。美国的高等（工程）教育正在向不同的方向发展，以平衡批判性、反思性和深度思考者，同时提供切实的技能。通过承认这种紧张局势，并建立有意融合这两个方向的课程地图，这个项目和伙伴关系将促进一个新的路径，以满足基于西班牙裔服务机构的独特属性的社会需求。该项目将测试如何andragogogical（成人）学习方法，与行业合作实施，是联系在一个以少数民族为主的西班牙裔服务机构的传统工程课程的持久性。这项研究将纵向跟踪学生，调查跨部门合作如何影响教育成果和职业成功。调查将被用来调查如何平衡和融合成人教育学和教育学的活动有助于学生的持久性，促进工程身份和专业信心的增长。研究的早期结果将用于将成人和行业指导的学习整合到课程地图、目录描述、网站和学生咨询软件等材料中。对结果的持续评估将有助于工程教育知识，并激发关于机构如何利用学习社区和行业伙伴关系来提高第一代低收入学生的保留率和随后的社会流动性的讨论。除了出版物和会议之外，项目产生的资源和研究结果将通过HSI资源中心进行传播，该资源中心是一个由450多个HSI组成的网络，包括那些很少或没有获得NSF支持的人。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。

项目成果

Engineering Education Enrichment (e3) Initiative: A Co-Curricular Program Intended to Improve Persistence and Career Success for Low-Income and First-Generation Engineering Students

工程教育强化 (e3) 计划：旨在提高低收入和第一代工程学生的毅力和职业成功的课外项目

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42061
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Conferences
• 作者: Huvard, Hannah;Bayat, Hengameh;Way, Sandra;Brewer, Catherine;Miller, Addison;Garcia, Antonio
• 通讯作者: Garcia, Antonio

Toward an Understanding of the Relationship Between Race/Ethnicity, Gender, First-generation Student Status, and Engineering Identity at Hispanic-serving Institutions

了解拉美裔服务机构的种族/民族、性别、第一代学生身份和工程身份之间的关系

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference proceedings
• 作者: Arnett, Stephanie M.;Way, Sandra M.;Ortiz, David G.;Humble, Lorissa B.B.;Martinez, Analyssa D.
• 通讯作者: Martinez, Analyssa D.