EAGER: Reducing the Digital Divide: Researching the Impacts and Opportunities of Rapid Transition to Online and Distance Learning for STEM Programming in a Tribal College Setting

EAGER：缩小数字鸿沟：研究部落大学环境中 STEM 编程快速过渡到在线和远程学习的影响和机遇

• 批准号: 2139491
• 负责人: Emma Norman
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: Northwest Indian College
• 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 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2139491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Reducing; Digital; Divide; Researching

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the research capacity at these institutions expands the opportunities for students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be locally relevant, and encourages a faculty community to look beyond the traditional classroom for intellectual and professional growth. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will build on the existing literature related to the impact of the digital divide and delivery of relevant STEM curricula on American Indian students’ persistence and success in higher education. The timing and on-line instructional requirements brought on by the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 create an urgency to capture data before other influences cloud the outcomes.Northwest Indian College proposes to gather baseline comparative information about the impact on TCU students’ academic success of culturally relevant STEM instruction delivered on-line in an up-to-date modality and with sufficient computing power. The methodology will include assessing the impact of the sudden transition to on-line instruction by documenting data from pre-pandemic years and the initial pandemic year; continuing the transition to culturally relevant, on-line-accessible STEM instruction; and providing academic and IT support to students engaged in the study. The expediency of this work at this time in this place is the ability to compare the impact of the interventions on student achievement and engagement with the recent results on student success *without* these interventions.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.

部落学院和大学计划 (TCUP) 的目标是提高为国家土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的研究能力，可以为学生提供更多机会，让他们在 STEM 领域追求具有挑战性、回报丰厚的职业，提供可能与当地相关的领域的研究，并鼓励教师群体超越传统课堂，寻求智力和专业发展。该项目与这一目标直接一致，而且将建立在与数字鸿沟和相关 STEM 课程的交付对美国印度学生在高等教育中的坚持和成功的影响相关的现有文献的基础上。 2020 年冠状病毒大流行带来的时间安排和在线教学要求，迫切需要在其他影响影响结果之前捕获数据。西北印度学院建议收集基线比较信息，了解以最新模式和足够计算能力在线提供的文化相关 STEM 教学对 TCU 学生学业成功的影响。 该方法将包括通过记录大流行前几年和大流行最初一年的数据来评估突然过渡到在线教学的影响；继续向文化相关、可在线访问的 STEM 教学过渡；为参与研究的学生提供学术和 IT 支持。 这项工作此时此地的权宜之计是能够将干预措施对学生成绩和参与度的影响与*没有*这些干预措施对学生成功的最新结果进行比较。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。