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

为改善STEM学生的成绩，特别是针对那些来自STEM中服务不足和代表性不足的学生，提出了一项旨在改善STEM学生成绩的新兴研究的指导和培训。这个为期两天的研讨会旨在吸引STEM教员，包括K-12和大专，以及STEM教学和学生学习方面的研究学者，介绍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，进一步评价将学到并随后实施的内容，包括查明阻碍变革的组织障碍。研讨会期间共享的材料将公开供使用。这期名为《通向道路的管道：STEM中的人性化多样性》的研讨会将以实施、研究和评估为重点，专门为改善STEM目前未得到充分服务和代表性不足的学生的教育途径而设计。实施课程将侧重于以理论为导向、以课堂为基础的做法，旨在使更广泛参与STEM的工作人性化，以及旨在解决社会情感发展问题的辅导做法，以此作为扩大参与的一种手段。研究会议将包括新出现的理论和哲学工作，这些工作有可能形成以证据为基础/以研究为基础的做法，以扩大对科学、技术和经济研究的参与。评价会议将审查评价的现状以及为推进可持续变革需要直接处理的问题。通往路径的管道将在以下主要领域设有分主题：(1)理论驱动的指导实践，(2)确定和减少偏见，(3)扩大STEM教育参与的循证模式，(4)使研究方法人性化(定性、交叉性方法等)，以及(5)为扩大STEM参与而进行的评估/评价创新。通过这些努力，该项目希望改变与使用专门针对STEM的商品化语言相关的思维，扩大参与努力，并通过这样做，改变个别学者及其机构处理这一主题的方式。学生的商品化限制了STEM领域人性化学生体验的能力，这无意中为有效的导师制采用制造了障碍，将学生视为指标/数字，潜在地阻碍了STEM学科的真正有意义的包容性。一门新的语言可以帮助学生实现并增强他们未来的职业自我意识。本次会议有可能通过积极培训个人的人性化技术--文化能力、文化意识、指导有效性和更好地与此类实践相一致的方法--来促进STEM教育问题的跨学科方法的对话，从而促进新的知识。该项目得到了NSF的EHR核心研究(ECR)计划的支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，以产生该领域的基础知识。在基本、广泛和持久的关键领域进行投资：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM的参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。该计划支持积累强有力的证据，为理解、构建理论以解释并建议干预和创新以应对教育中持续存在的挑战的努力提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.