Network Connector: DEDICATE: Data Science Equity-Driven Inquiry to Create Accessible Project-based Training for Social Impact Education

网络连接器：奉献：数据科学公平驱动的调查，为社会影响教育创造可访问的基于项目的培训，旨在解决在系统层面扩大STEM参与的一些挑战。为此，确定了阻碍成功的四个问题。1. 教师设计的“项目”不是基于基于项目的学习（PBL）研究2. 跨STEM和非STEM学科的项目孤岛；3. 缺乏以教师为中心的设计；和4。缺乏系统变化网络。致力于解决这四个问题。利用PBL技术背后的教育研究，专门设计与文化相关的PBL模块，并可跨学科使用，以增强围绕现实世界挑战的自然协作；2. 将非STEM和STEM学科结合到高社会影响问题的数据项目中，特别是气候变化（地球科学）、刑事司法、食品和水科学；3. 关注教师能力建设和支持，将其作为系统性变革的主要机制，因为教师对跨学科提供以数据为中心的内容的兴趣、能力和信心的提高，转化为学生接触STEM和为STEM教育做准备的指数级增长，与INCLUDES倡议共享措施的努力保持一致；再乘以4。全面支持教师网络，不仅包括基于研究的PBL模块，还包括PBL创建框架以及与ACM和其他国家和国际标准相一致的评估和评分工具，支持非技术教师进行模块交付，创建精心策划的社会影响PBL模块——与来自该地区的影响区域教师共同设计，并提供培训、社区论坛、以及围绕系统倡导主题进行网络扩展和组织的工作组。dedicated还计划研究与数据支持的基于项目的学习系统战略相关的关键问题，这些战略不仅解决了历史上服务不足的机构（hbcu和hsi），而且还解决了跨学科领域（社会影响领域）缺乏数据知识和工具的STEM中关键的扩大参与挑战。dedicated网络将成为一个连接器，通过有针对性的能力建设和小额赠款计划进行扩展，并公开呼吁教师团队作为数据支持pbl的用户或创建者进行连接。dedicated将以南方大数据创新中心的工作为基础，连接INCLUDES国家数据科学联盟（NDSA）和ASPIRE联盟，以及其他扩展合作伙伴网络，如HBCU数据科学联盟和前NSF HSI-STEM中心，以建立促进联盟机构之间合作所需的基础设施。北卡罗来纳中央大学- hbcu、维尔京群岛大学- hbcu、加利福尼亚州立大学、弗雷斯诺- hsi和佐治亚理工学院将在全国范围内召集30个教师团队，培训3000多名学生，横跨美国南部人口普查地区和加利福尼亚州，覆盖101所hbcu中的90多所和451所hsi中的163所。此外，dedicated将通过在整个INCLUDES网络中共享数据、学习模块和访问权限，连接到更大的INCLUDES生态系统。通过使用数据作为连接器，PI团队旨在增强自然协作领域的能力，并为教师和学生参与STEM教育提供新的渠道。通过该项目建立的更广泛的教师网络有可能为系统性制度变革提供持续的倡导网络。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。

The Network Connector: DEDICATE: Data Science Equity-Driven Inquiry to Create Accessible Project-Based Training for Social Impact Education aims to solve some of the challenges to broadening participation in STEM at a systems-level. To this effect four problems were identified that are barriers to success. 1. Instructor-designed “projects” not based in Project-Based Learning (PBL) Research; 2. Silos of Projects across STEM and Non-STEM disciplines; 3. Lack of Faculty-Centric Design; and 4. Lack of Systemic-Change Networks. DEDICATE aims to address these four problems by 1. Leveraging the educational research behind PBL techniques, specifically to design PBL modules that are culturally relevant and can be used across disciplines to empower natural collaboration around real-world challenges; 2. Bridging both Non-STEM and STEM disciplines into data projects around problems of high social impact, specifically climate change (geosciences), criminal justice, and food and water sciences; 3. Focus on faculty capacity-building and support as the primary mechanism for systemic change, as increasing faculty interest, ability, and confidence in delivering data-centric content across disciplines translates into exponential growth in the exposure of students to STEM and their preparation for STEM Education, aligning with the INCLUDES Initiative Shared Measures effort; and by 4. Fully supporting faculty networks with not only research-based PBL modules, but PBL creation frameworks and assessment and grading tools aligned to ACM and other national and international standards, supporting non-technical faculty in module delivery, creating curated Social Impact PBL modules - co-designed with impact area instructors from across the region, as well as providing training, community forums, and working groups for network expansion and organization around systemic advocacy topics. DEDICATE also plans to research key questions related to systemic strategies for data-enabled Project-Based Learning that address the critical broadening participation challenge in STEM of lack of access to data knowledge and tools at not only historically underserved institutions (HBCUs and HSIs) but also within interdisciplinary areas (Social Impact Areas). The DEDICATE network will establish itself as a connector in order to expand through a targeted capacity-building and mini-grants program with an open call for faculty teams to connect as either users or creators of data-enabled PBLs. DEDICATE will build on the work of the South Big Data Innovation Hub and connect to the INCLUDES National Data Science Alliances (NDSA) and the ASPIRE Alliance, as well as other expansion partner networks, such as the HBCU Data Science Consortium and the former NSF HSI-STEM Hub, to build the infrastructure necessary to foster collaborations between alliance institutions. Four lead institutions NC Central University-HBCU, University of the Virgin Islands-HBCU, California State University, Fresno-HSI, and the Georgia Institute of Technology will engage 30 faculty teams across the country to train over 3,000 students, across the Southern census region of the U.S. and California which covers over 90 of the 101 HBCUs and 163 of the 451 HSIs. Additionally, DEDICATE will connect to the larger INCLUDES ecosystem through efforts to share data, learning modules and access throughout the INCLUDES network. By using data as a connector, the PI Team aims to empower natural areas of collaboration and new pipelines for faculty and student engagement in STEM education. The broader faculty network thus created through this project has the potential to empower a sustained advocacy network for systemic institutional change.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.