Integrating Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Math Instruction at a Hispanic-Serving Community College to Increase Student Engagement and Success

在为西班牙裔服务的社区学院将文化相关的教学法融入数学教学中，以提高学生的参与度和成功率

• 批准号: 2122936
• 负责人: Caroline Hutchings
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Riverside Community College District/Norco Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122936&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Culturally; Relevant; Pedagogy; Math

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving instructional practices in math education at an Hispanic-serving institution through the integration of culturally relevant pedagogical practices. A cohort of math faculty at the Norco Campus of Riverside Community College will pilot this professional development approach aimed at improving instructional practice in mathematics courses ranging from Math for Liberal Arts to Calculus. The project will also assign an educational advisor to work in tandem with participating math faculty to address student support issues. The intent of the project is to improve success, retention, and persistence for students in STEM fields through a combination of improved instructional techniques and student support services. The project will advance the scientific community’s understanding of how culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy influences classroom practices and student outcomes.Two goals guide the project. First is to support an initial group of three math faculty to develop culturally relevant and sustainable pedagogies while simultaneously enhancing support structures for students with a dedicated educational advisor. Second is to increase the number of students who successfully complete transfer-level math courses in their first year as students at a Hispanic-serving community college. The faculty in the cohort will make changes in six different courses, which will impact at least 900 students over the lifetime of the award. Through presentations and increased collaboration with the rest of the math department at Norco College, this pilot project has the potential to become a larger more transformative initiative that could expand throughout the Riverside Community College District. Results from the impacted courses will be compared to traditional courses, which will provide new knowledge on the impact of employing culturally responsive pedagogies and dedicated advising on the success, retention, and completion rates for students at Hispanic-serving community colleges. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to 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.

该项目旨在通过整合文化相关的教学实践，改善西班牙裔服务机构的数学教育教学实践，从而为国家利益服务。滨江社区学院诺科校区的一批数学教师将试点这种专业发展方法，旨在改善从文科数学到微积分的数学课程的教学实践。该项目还将指派一名教育顾问与参与的数学教师合作，以解决学生支持问题。该项目的目的是通过改进教学技术和学生支持服务的结合，提高STEM领域学生的成功率，保留率和持久性。该项目将促进科学界对文化相关和可持续的教学法如何影响课堂实践和学生成果的理解。首先是支持最初的三个数学教师小组，以发展文化相关和可持续的教学方法，同时通过专门的教育顾问加强对学生的支持结构。第二是增加在西班牙裔社区大学就读的第一年成功完成转学数学课程的学生人数。 该团队的教师将在六个不同的课程中做出改变，这将在该奖项的生命周期内影响至少900名学生。 通过介绍和增加与诺科学院数学系其他部门的合作，这个试点项目有可能成为一个更大的更具变革性的倡议，可以扩大到整个滨江社区学院区。 从受影响的课程的结果将与传统的课程，这将提供新的知识，对雇用文化上的反应和专门咨询的成功，保留和完成率为学生在西班牙裔服务社区学院的影响。 HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于不同的性质和背景下的HSIs，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（一）参与学生学习，（二）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（三）提高我们对如何在HSIs建立机构能力的理解。 HSI计划所支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以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。