HSI Pilot Project: Improving Online STEM Education for Undergraduate Students at HSIs

HSI 试点项目：改善 HSI 本科生在线 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 2225206
• 负责人: Ya Ni
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Improving; Online

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 pilot project aims to study online education across several disciplines at California State University, San Bernardino. Online education provides flexibility and access for students that may otherwise struggle to engage in a traditional in-person college experience. At the same time, understanding and strengthening online STEM education can be a challenge due to the variety of needs and practices across disciplines. The need to understand effective online education was magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which necessitated rapid, whole-institution moves to online courses. This project will explore online teaching and learning in four disciplines: biology, computer science and engineering, psychology, and information decision sciences, and will investigate and compare practices that specifically show potential to positively impact students in an HSI setting. An overarching goal of the project is to focus on how best to serve a broad and diverse population of online learners. Four areas of online teaching practice will be investigated: lecture attributes, student practice strategies, online labs, and testing practices. In addition, the project will look at key, overlapping issues for students from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM, low-income individuals, first-generation college students, and other groups. A key aim of the project is to understand how issues such as reduced online access, living conditions, and preference for structure and sense of community might impact student outcomes in online courses. Project research will use surveys, focus groups, and data from online classrooms to analyze practices in each of the four focal disciplines. Dissemination will focus on sharing both promising and potentially harmful educational practices (as cautions), as well as specific approaches that show promise to improve learning in each of the targeted disciplines or areas of online teaching practice. 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 are supported by this program.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.

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，这个第一轨道试点项目旨在研究加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺多个学科的在线教育。在线教育为学生提供了灵活性和机会，否则他们可能难以参与传统的面对面大学体验。与此同时，理解和加强在线STEM教育可能是一项挑战，因为跨学科的需求和实践多种多样。在COVID-19大流行期间，了解有效在线教育的需求被放大，这需要整个机构迅速转向在线课程。该项目将探索四个学科的在线教学和学习：生物学，计算机科学与工程，心理学和信息决策科学，并将调查和比较具体表现出在HSI环境中对学生产生积极影响的潜力的实践。该项目的首要目标是关注如何最好地为广泛而多样化的在线学习者提供服务。在线教学实践的四个领域将进行调查：讲座属性，学生实践策略，在线实验室和测试实践。此外，该项目将着眼于关键的，重叠的问题，为学生群体传统上代表性不足的STEM，低收入个人，第一代大学生，和其他群体。该项目的一个主要目的是了解诸如减少在线访问，生活条件以及对社区结构和意识的偏好等问题如何影响在线课程的学生成绩。项目研究将使用调查，焦点小组和在线课堂的数据来分析四个重点学科的实践。传播将侧重于分享有前途和可能有害的教育做法（作为警告），以及有希望改善每个目标学科或在线教学实践领域学习的具体方法。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HSIs的多样性和背景，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（i）参与学生学习，（ii）关于如何有效地使STEM多样化和增加参与，以及（iii）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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。