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

网络连接器：致力于：数据科学公平驱动的调查，为社会影响教育创建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”并非基于项目式学习（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； 4. 缺乏系统性变革网络。 DEDICATE 旨在通过以下方式解决这四个问题： 1. 利用 PBL 技术背后的教育研究，特别是设计与文化相关且可跨学科使用的 PBL 模块，以围绕现实世界的挑战实现自然协作； 2. 将非 STEM 和 STEM 学科融入围绕高社会影响问题的数据项目，特别是气候变化（地球科学）、刑事司法以及食品和水科学； 3. 注重教师能力建设和支持，将其作为系统变革的主要机制，因为提高教师在跨学科提供以数据为中心的内容方面的兴趣、能力和信心，会转化为学生对 STEM 的接触以及他们为 STEM 教育做好准备的指数级增长，这与 INCLUDES Initiative 共享措施的努力相一致； 4. 全力支持教师网络，不仅使用基于研究的 PBL 模块，还使用符合 ACM 和其他国家和国际标准的 PBL 创建框架以及评估和评分工具，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（与来自整个地区的影响领域讲师共同设计），并提供培训、社区论坛和工作组，以围绕系统倡导主题进行网络扩展和组织。 DEDICATE 还计划研究与基于数据的项目式学习的系统策略相关的关键问题，以解决 STEM 中扩大参与的关键挑战，即不仅在历史上服务不足的机构（HBCU 和 HSI）而且在跨学科领域（社会影响领域）缺乏获得数据知识和工具的机会。 DEDICATE 网络将把自己打造成一个连接器，以便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的 PBL 的用户或创建者进行连接。 DEDICATE将以南方大数据创新中心的工作为基础，并连接到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，例如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、加州州立大学、弗雷斯诺-HSI 和佐治亚理工学院这四家领先机构将在全国范围内聘请 30 个教师团队，培训超过 3,000 名学生，覆盖美国南部人口普查区和加利福尼亚州，涵盖 101 个 HBCU 中的 90 多个和 451 个 HSI 中的 163 个。此外，DEDICATE 将通过努力共享数据、学习模块和整个 INCLUDES 网络的访问，连接到更大的 INCLUDES 生态系统。通过使用数据作为连接器，PI 团队旨在为教师和学生参与 STEM 教育提供自然协作领域和新渠道。通过该项目创建的更广泛的教师网络有潜力为系统性制度变革提供持续的倡导网络。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.