Scaffolding High Impact Practices to Increase Community College Student Engagement with Undergraduate Research

该项目旨在通过为整个科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的教师和学生提供机会来服务于国家利益，以参与本科研究经验（URES），从而提高STEM和非STEM学生参加社区学院的成功。在以前和目前的奖项的基础上，该项目旨在加强和扩展本科生的研究经验（URES）在整个干程序在奎斯塔学院，西班牙裔服务机构，也服务于加州的农村社区。认识到为社区学院的学生和教师提供参与URES的机会的重要性，这一努力旨在加强和/或扩大不同类型的URES。这些包括在既定的STEM课程和机会（基于课程的本科生研究经验，实地考察/实验室，研究特定课程，独立的经验和以研究为导向的STEM研讨会）嵌入本科生研究经验。这项工作的一个重要组成部分是建立一个STEM经验丰富的新教师社区，致力于在其学科和学习计划中开发和实施URES。基于从以前和当前的努力中吸取的经验教训，项目团队借鉴和实施创新理论的传播方面，以传播和宣传URES，支架高影响力的做法（指导进展），并在学院维持URES的不同形式。该项目的目标是通过追求三个目标，建立一个脚手架的方法或引导学生参与大学本科生研究的进展。首先是建立一个教师创新小组，以开发，宣传和维持URES。第二，为至少300名STEM和非STEM学生提供广泛的URE机会，以探索基础研究技能和研究经验。第三，也是最后一个，是提供和制度化的STEM研讨会开放给所有有兴趣在STEM的研究机会和职业道路的学生。该项目旨在促进对本科生研究经验对学生成功和教师学习的影响的理解。知识的产生、项目成果和相关的URES类型以及传播都是基于面向数据到行动的评价和项目方法。为了评估和记录成果和实施情况，该项目打算开发和执行各种定量和定性数据收集和数据分析方法，以调查教师学习对本科STEM教育的影响，例如教师参与专业发展活动对各种高影响URES和学生参与和成功的广度和深度的影响。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过其机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持的努力，以改变和改善高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估的支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by offering opportunities for faculty and students throughout Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to engage in undergraduate research experiences (UREs) and thereby increase the success of STEM and non-STEM students attending community colleges. Building on prior and current awards, this project aims to enhance and extend undergraduate research experiences (UREs) throughout STEM programs at Cuesta College, a Hispanic Serving Institution that also serves rural communities in California. Recognizing the importance of offering opportunities for students and faculty at community colleges to participate in UREs, this effort intends to enhance and/or expand different types of UREs. These include embedding undergraduate research experiences in established STEM courses and opportunities (course-based undergraduate research experiences, fieldwork/labs, research specific courses, stand-alone experiences, and a research-oriented STEM seminar). An essential element of this effort is the establishment of a community of STEM experienced and new faculty committed to the development and implementation of UREs in their disciplines and programs of study. Based on lessons learned from prior and current efforts, the project team draws on and implements aspects of the Diffusion of Innovation theory to spread and propagate UREs, scaffold high impact practices (a guided progression), and sustain different formats of UREs at the college. The goal of the project is to establish a scaffolding approach or guided progression of student participation in undergraduate research at the college by pursuing three objectives. First is building on a faculty innovation group to develop, propagate, and sustain UREs. Second is offering a broad range of URE opportunities to at least 300 STEM and non-STEM students to explore foundational research skills and research experiences. Third, and finally, is offering and institutionalizing a STEM seminar open to all students interested in research opportunities and career paths in STEM. The project intends to contribute to the advancement of understanding of the impact of undergraduate research experiences on student success and faculty learning. Knowledge generation, project outcomes and associated types of UREs, and propagation are based on a data-to-action oriented evaluation and project approach. To assess and document outcomes and implementation, the project intends to develop and execute a variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection and data analysis methods to investigate the impact of faculty learning on undergraduate STEM education, such as the effect of faculty participation in professional development activities on the breadth and depth of a variety of high impact UREs and student participation and success. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through its Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.