Collaborative Research: HSI ATE Hub 2: Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Technician Education

该项目旨在更好地服务和支持正在攻读技能技术领域证书的不同群体的学生。为此，该项目将指导教师在技术人员教育课程中适应和实施文化响应性教学。该项目旨在增加西班牙裔学生在STEM职业道路上的留存率，特别是在先进技术领域。该项目建立在西班牙裔服务社区学院Kickstarter项目、西班牙裔服务机构HSI/ATE中心项目以及威彻斯特社区学院光子学和激光项目的基础上。项目团队将开发、试点测试和传播教师专业发展模式，该模式有助于将教师的理解、实践和心态从强调感知的学生缺陷转变为基于资产的思考和相互尊重。专业发展将分为三个层次。Tier 1旨在建立认识并支持第一步。第二级将专注于开发、实施和测试技术人员教育中的文化响应性教学实践。第三层将专注于创建一个由教师和新兴领导者组成的社区，他们从事有效教育实践的实践、理论建设和应用研究。该项目的总体目标是培养教师的知识、技能、价值观、态度和心态，以便更多的拉美裔学生完成先进的技术课程。通过这样做，该项目可以增加技术人员劳动力的多样性，并有助于缓解新冠肺炎对拉美裔社区的不成比例的影响。这种合作包括技术人员教育项目的教职员工和管理人员、高等教育研究人员、文化响应性教学专家以及行业合作伙伴，以进一步概念化、操作化和测试应用工程、应用计算和网络安全等技能技术领域的文化响应性教学的有效性。此外，该项目将检验这样一种假设，即微证书对于激励教师参与项目活动是有价值的，并且微证书将被教育和行业利益相关者认可为专业知识和经验的宝贵证据。混合方法评估是面向过程的，以促进开发评估教师和学生结果的模型和结果，其中包括评估知识/意识、技能/行为和态度/心态的变化。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to better serve and support a diverse population of students who are pursuing credentials in skilled technical fields. To do so, the project will guide faculty to adapt and implement Culturally Responsive Instruction in technician education courses. The project is designed to increase the retention of Hispanic students in STEM career pathways, particularly in advanced-technology fields. The project builds on the Hispanic Serving Community College KickStarter project, the Hispanic Serving Institutions HSI/ATE Hub project, and the Westchester Community College Photonics and Laser Project. The project team will develop, pilot test, and disseminate a faculty professional development model that can help to shift faculty understanding, practice, and mindset from emphasis on perceived student deficits to asset-based thinking and mutual respect. The professional development will be organized into three tiers. Tier 1 is designed to establish awareness and support first steps. Tier 2 will focus on the development, implementation, and testing of Culturally Responsive Instruction practices in technician education. Tier 3 will focus on creating a community of instructors and emerging leaders that engages in practice, theory building, and applied research into effective educational practices. The overall project goal is to develop faculty knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and mindset so that more Hispanic students will complete advanced technology programs. In doing so, the project can increase the diversity of the technician workforce and help to mitigate disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on Hispanic communities.This collaboration includes faculty and administrators in technician education programs, higher education researchers, experts in Culturally Responsive Instruction, and industry partners to further conceptualize, operationalize, and test the validity of Culturally Responsive Instruction in the skilled technical fields of applied engineering and applied computing and cyber-security. Additionally, the project will test the hypothesis that micro-credentials are valuable for incentivizing faculty participation in project activities and that micro-credentials will be recognized by educational and industry stakeholders as valuable evidence of expertise and experience. The mixed method evaluation is process -oriented to facilitate development of a model and outcomes-oriented to assess faculty and student outcomes that includes assessment of changes in knowledge/awareness, skills/behavior, and attitudes/mindset. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation’s economy.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.