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

网络连接器：奉献者：Data Science Equity-Driven Inquiry旨在为社会影响力教育创建可扩展的基于项目的培训，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”不是基于项目学习（PBL）的研究; 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。缺乏系统变革网络。我们的目标是解决这四个问题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学科与高社会影响问题的数据项目联系起来，特别是气候变化（地球科学），刑事司法以及食品和水科学; 3.重点关注教师能力建设和支持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，能力和信心的增加转化为学生接触STEM及其为STEM教育做准备的指数增长，与INCLUDES倡议共享措施努力保持一致。全面支持教师网络，不仅有基于研究的PBL模块，而且有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级工具，支持非技术教师提供模块，创建策划的社会影响PBL模块-与来自该地区的影响领域教师共同设计，以及提供培训，社区论坛，和工作组，以扩大网络并围绕系统性宣传主题进行组织。DEDICATE还计划研究与数据支持的基于项目的学习的系统性战略相关的关键问题，这些战略解决了STEM中缺乏数据知识和工具的关键参与挑战，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）。DEDICATE网络将成为一个连接器，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，并与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 Hub）建立联系，以建立促进联盟机构之间合作所需的基础设施。四个牵头机构NC中央大学HBCU，维尔京群岛大学HBCU，加州州立大学弗雷斯诺-HSI和佐治亚理工学院将在全国范围内聘请30个教师团队，在美国南部人口普查地区和加州培训3，000多名学生，覆盖101个HBCU中的90个和451个HSI中的163个。此外，DEDICATE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团队旨在为教师和学生参与STEM教育提供自然的协作领域和新的渠道。通过该项目建立的更广泛的教师网络有可能为系统的制度变革提供持续的宣传网络。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.