Catalyst Award: Enhancing STEM education and recruitment through hands-on learning

催化剂奖：通过实践学习加强 STEM 教育和招聘

• 批准号: 2011819
• 负责人: Zhiming Yang
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Central 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: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyst; Award; Enhancing; STEM; education

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics undergraduate education and research. It is expected that the award will further the faculty member's research capability, improve research and teaching at the institution. and involve undergraduate students in research experiences. This project at North Carolina Central University is designed to increase the enrollment in the undergraduate Environmental Geographic Science Program. Hands-on learning is expected to increase the retention rate and enrollment in the program. The goal of this project is to enhance STEM education and recruitment at NCCU by implementing hands-on learning, thereby contributing to increase the enrollment in the B.S. Environmental Geographic Science program (EEGS) at NCCU. In this project, the following activities will be conducted: 1) Develop and implement hands-on labs for two existing courses including GEOG2100 Physical Geography and ENSC2100 Global Environmental Sustainability; 2) Develop two new environmental science courses: ENSC2600 Environmental Science and ENSC 2700 Environmental Education and Outreach with significant number of hands-on labs; 3) Extend hand-on labs to students from high schools for the recruitment of STEM majors. Handheld instruments and devices will be acquired to establish a quality teaching facility and allow faculty to implement hands-on learning and to extend hands-on learning to students from high schools. It is expected that there will be a significant improvement in student performance and mastery of concepts in two existing STEM courses. There also will be an increase in the retention rate and enrollment of EEGS program at NCCU. The methods developed in this project could be extended to many other STEM courses to enhance STEM education at Minority institutions.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.

催化剂项目为历史悠久的黑人学院和大学提供支持，努力建立教师的研究能力，以加强科学、技术、工程和数学本科教育和研究。预计该奖项将进一步提高教师的研究能力，改善该机构的研究和教学。并让本科生参与研究经历。北卡罗来纳中央大学的这个项目旨在增加本科环境地理科学项目的入学人数。实践学习预计将提高该计划的保留率和入学率。 该项目的目标是通过实践学习来加强国立政治大学的 STEM 教育和招聘，从而有助于增加理学士学位的入学人数。国立政治大学环境地理科学项目（EEGS）。在该项目中，将开展以下活动： 1）开发和实施两门现有课程的动手实验室，包括GEOG2100自然地理学和ENSC2100全球环境可持续性； 2) 开发两门新的环境科学课程：ENSC2600 环境科学和 ENSC 2700 环境教育和外展，并配备大量实践实验室； 3）将动手实验扩展到高中生，用于STEM专业的招生。将购买手持仪器和设备，以建立优质的教学设施，使教师能够实施实践学习，并将实践学习扩展到高中学生。预计现有两门 STEM 课程的学生成绩和概念掌握将得到显着提高。 NCCU EEGS 课程的保留率和入学率也将有所增加。该项目开发的方法可以扩展到许多其他 STEM 课程，以加强少数族裔机构的 STEM 教育。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。