Conference: Pipelines to Pathways: Humanizing Diversity in STEM Conference 2022

该项目旨在改善新兴研究的指导和培训，以提高STEM学生的成绩，特别是那些来自STEM领域服务不足和代表性不足的群体的学生。这个为期两天的研讨会旨在吸引STEM教师，包括K-12和高等教育，以及STEM教学和学生学习的研究学者，展示和学习基于证据的实践和方法设计，以实施和有效评估研究驱动的STEM教育实践。讲习班结束后，将通过对与会者的调查，进一步评价将学到什么和随后执行什么，包括确定组织变革的障碍。研讨会期间分享的材料将公开供使用。该研讨会名为“通往路径的管道：STEM中的人性化多样性”，其实施、研究和评估重点将专门用于改善目前在STEM中得不到充分服务和代表性不足的学生的教育途径。实施会议将侧重于理论驱动的，以课堂为基础的实践，旨在扩大STEM参与的人性化，以及旨在解决社会情感发展的指导实践，作为扩大参与的一种手段。研究会议将包括新兴的理论和哲学工作，这些工作有可能形成以证据为基础/以研究为基础的实践，以扩大STEM的参与。评价会议将审查目前的评价状况，以及为推动可持续的变革需要直接解决的问题。管道路径将在以下主要领域有子主题：(1)理论驱动的指导实践，(2)识别和减轻偏见，(3)扩大STEM教育参与的基于证据的模型，(4)人性化研究方法（定性，交叉性方法等），以及(5)扩大STEM参与的评估/评估创新。通过这些努力，该项目希望改变与STEM拓宽参与努力相关的商品化语言使用中的相关思维，并在此过程中改变个别学者及其机构如何处理这一主题。学生的商品化限制了STEM领域将学生体验人性化的能力，这无意中为有效的导师采用创造了障碍，将学生视为指标/数字，可能阻碍STEM学科真正有意义的包容性。一门新的语言有助于学生实现和增强他们未来的职业“自我意识”。本次会议有可能为激发跨学科方法对STEM教育问题的对话贡献新知识，这些问题涉及通过积极培训个人的人性化技术（文化能力、文化意识、指导有效性和更符合此类实践的方法）来扩大参与。本项目由美国国家科学基金会EHR核心研究（ECR）项目支持。ECR项目强调在该领域产生基础知识的基础STEM教育研究。投资在至关重要、广泛和持久的关键领域：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。该项目支持积累有力的证据，为理解、构建理论进行解释提供依据，并提出干预和创新建议，以应对教育中持续存在的挑战。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Pipelines to Pathways: Humanizing Diversity in STEM, is proposed to improve mentorship and training in emerging research designed to improve STEM student outcomes, particularly for those students coming from underserved and underrepresented populations in STEM. This two-day workshop is designed to attract STEM faculty, both K-12 and post-secondary, and research scholars in STEM teaching and student learning to present and learn about evidence-based practices and methodology design to implement and effectively evaluate research driven STEM education practices. Following the workshop, further evaluation of what will be learned and subsequently implemented, including identifying organizational barriers to change, will be obtained through surveys of conference participants. Materials shared during the workshop will be made publicly available for use. The workshop, Pipelines to Pathways: Humanizing Diversity in STEM, will have an Implementation, Research, and Evaluation focus designed specifically at improving the educational pathway of students currently underserved and underrepresented in STEM. Implementation sessions will focus on theoretically driven, classroom-based practices geared toward humanization of broadening participation in STEM, and mentorship practices designed to address socio-emotional development as a means towards broadening participation. Research sessions will include emerging theoretical and philosophical work that has potential to yield the formation of evidenced-based/research-based practices for broadening participation in STEM. Evaluation sessions will involve the examination of the current state of evaluation and what needs to be directly addressed to move forward with sustainable changes. Pipeline to Pathways will have subtopics in the following major areas: (1) Theory Driven Mentoring Practices, (2) Identifying and Mitigating Bias, (3) Evidenced-Based Models for Broadening Participation in STEM education, (4) Humanizing Research Methods (qualitative, intersectionality approaches, etc.), and (5) Assessment/Evaluation innovation for broadening participation in STEM. Through these efforts, the project hopes to shift the thinking associated within the use of commoditized language specific to STEM broadening participation efforts, and in doing so, shift how individual scholars and their institutions approach this topic. The commoditization of students limits the STEM field’s ability to humanize the student experience which inadvertently creates barriers to effective mentorship adoption, treating students as metrics/numbers, potentially impeding authentic meaningful inclusivity into STEM disciplines. A new language can contribute to students being able to actualize and enhance their professional future “sense of self.” This conference has the potential to contribute to new knowledge in stimulating conversations from an interdisciplinary approach to STEM education issues related to broadening participation by actively training individuals in humanization techniques—cultural competence, cultural awareness, mentorship effectiveness, and methodology that better aligns with such practices.This project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The program supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest intervention and innovations to address persistent challenges in education.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.