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

网络连接器：专用：数据科学公平驱动的调查，旨在为社会影响教育创建无障碍的基于项目的培训，旨在解决在系统一级扩大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；4.缺乏系统性的变化网络。致力于解决这四个问题的目标是：1.利用PBL技术背后的教育研究，特别是设计与文化相关的、可跨学科使用的PBL模块，以增强围绕现实世界挑战的自然协作；2.围绕具有高度社会影响的问题，特别是气候变化(地球科学)、刑事司法以及食品和水科学，将非STEM和STEM学科纳入数据项目；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、能力和信心的增加转化为学生接触STEM和他们为STEM教育做准备的指数增长，这与包括共享措施倡议的努力相一致；全面支持教师网络，不仅提供基于研究的PBL模块，而且支持符合ACM和其他国家和国际标准的PBL创建框架和评估和评分工具，支持非技术教师提供模块，创建经过策划的社会影响PBL模块-与来自该地区的影响地区教师共同设计，以及提供培训、社区论坛和工作组，以围绕系统性倡导主题进行网络扩展和组织。专门机构还计划研究与基于数据的项目学习的系统战略有关的关键问题，这些战略应对科学、技术和经济研究领域扩大参与的关键挑战，即不仅在以往服务不足的机构(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。专用网络将把自己建立为一个连接器，以便通过有针对性的能力建设和微型赠款计划进行扩展，公开呼吁教员团队作为数据支持的PBL的用户或创建者进行连接。DETEATE将在南方大数据创新中心工作的基础上，连接包括国家数据科学联盟(NDSA)和ASPIRE联盟在内的南方大数据创新中心，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。北卡罗来纳州中央大学、维尔京群岛大学、加州州立大学、弗雷斯诺-HSI和佐治亚理工学院四所领先机构将在全国各地雇用30个教员团队，培训超过3,000名学生，覆盖美国和加州南部人口普查地区，覆盖101所HBCU中的90多所和451所HSI中的163所。此外，Destate将通过努力在Includes网络中共享数据、学习模块和访问，连接到更大的Includes生态系统。通过使用数据作为连接器，PI团队旨在增强教师和学生参与STEM教育的自然协作领域和新渠道。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改革的持续倡导网络提供支持。这一奖项反映了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。

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.