Implementation Project: Early Interdisciplinary Applied Strategies to Strengthen STEM Education and Research

实施项目：加强 STEM 教育和研究的早期跨学科应用策略

• 批准号: 2011969
• 负责人: Chellu Chetty
• 金额: $ 224.89万
• 依托单位: Savannah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-15 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; Early; Interdisciplinary; Applied

Implementation Projects provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthen education and research. The project at Savannah State University seeks to build on previous successful efforts to increase participation of African-American and other students from historically disenfranchised groups in STEM disciplines. The goal of the project is early engagement of STEM students with immersive, interactive and relevant interdisciplinary applications of science, while offering professional development opportunities to the faculty. The project will impact all STEM majors at the institution.The project has the goals to: transform STEM teaching and learning by reforming nine gateway STEM lab courses; strengthen the institution’s undergraduate research training model through a team-based applied interdisciplinary training approach; and implement a sustained training program for five cohorts of faculty to support faculty commitment to new teaching reforms. The project also seeks to institutionalize reformed teaching and learning strategies by including virtual reality environments within critical gateway science laboratory courses. A research study will be conducted to investigate the impact of the interventions and strategies in the gateway course on student learning outcomes. The project will be guided and evaluated by internal and external advisory boards and evaluators.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.

实施项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）提供支持，以设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力，以增加获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）本科学位的学生人数，并通过加强教育和研究来提高他们的准备质量。该项目在萨凡纳州立大学寻求建立在以前的成功努力，以增加非裔美国人和其他学生从历史上被剥夺了公民权的群体在STEM学科的参与。该项目的目标是让STEM学生尽早参与沉浸式，互动式和相关的跨学科科学应用，同时为教师提供专业发展机会。该项目将影响该机构的所有STEM专业。该项目的目标是：通过改革9门STEM实验室课程来改变STEM教学和学习;通过基于团队的应用跨学科培训方法来加强该机构的本科研究培训模式;并为五批教师实施持续培训计划，以支持教师致力于新的教学改革。该项目还试图通过将虚拟现实环境纳入关键门户科学实验室课程，使改革后的教学和学习战略制度化。我们会进行一项研究，探讨入门课程的介入措施和策略对学生学习成果的影响。该项目将由内部和外部咨询委员会和评估人员进行指导和评估。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。