Broadening Participation Research Center: HBCU Center for Math Education and Research

扩大参与研究中心提供支持历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）进行扩大参与研究，并作为严格研究和广泛传播批判理论，结构和方法的国家中心，以及有助于HBCU在教育非洲裔美国人STEM本科生方面取得成功的文化敏感干预措施。该项目旨在通过扩大参与研究和为STEM和教育学科专业的学生提供高影响力的数学导师实践，增加STEM和数学教师管道中的非裔美国人和代表性不足的少数民族学生的数量。在职数学教师、职前教师和科学、技术、工程和数学专业的大学生将利用代数项目和南方倡议代数项目的教学方法，在美国三个地区的若干K-12公立学区实施亚太统计所的PK-16模式。学生提供辅导，因为他们参与学生如何发展和保持数学熟练程度的发展研究，管理与数学和科学少数民族相关的偏见，并坚持在STEM学科，尽管这些偏见。研究的主要重点将集中在控制大学生在STEM和教育中成功和坚持的来源和潜在因素上。该项目以生态系统和实践理论社区的现象学变体为指导，专注于背景，支持，适应性和适应不良的应对，以及支撑学业成绩的新兴身份的发展，使用混合方法（例如，焦点小组、访谈、调查、支持的类型和水平、学习成绩、标准化数学成绩、出勤记录等）研究非裔美国人和代表性不足的少数族裔学生如何成为熟练的数学学习者、管理偏见（包括种族、性别和经济）并坚持STEM学科。HBCU大学生将从事扩大参与研究，作为参与与上述调查研究和焦点小组相关的定量和定性数据收集的实地研究人员。学生将在参与公民科学和行动研究的同时，参与影响力大的辅导实践，因为他们将同时参与一种社区参与形式，既代表他们的大学，也代表亚太统计所设计团队所支持的社区干预措施（即，社区和网站开发团队）。一个强有力的外部评估将监测和评估所有目标的进展情况，为中心的所有活动提供形成性和总结性评估。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Broadening Participation Research Centers provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to conduct broadening participation research and serve as national hubs for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical theories, structures and pedagogies, as well as culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. This project seeks to increase the number of African American and underrepresented minority students in STEM and math teachers' pipelines by broadening participation research and providing high-impact practices as math tutors for those majoring in STEM and education disciplines. Using the Algebra Project and the Southern Initiative Algebra Project (SIAP) pedagogies, in-service math teachers, pre-service teachers, and STEM college students will implement SIAP's PK-16 Model in several K-12 public school districts in three regions of the United States. Students are provided mentoring as they participate in developmental studies of how students develop and maintain proficiency in math, manage biases associated with minorities in math and science, and persist in STEM disciplines despite those biases. The primary thrust of research will concentrate on the sources and underlying factors governing college students’ success and persistence in STEM and education.Guided by the phenomenological variant of ecological systems and communities of practice theories, which focus on contexts, support, adaptive and maladaptive coping, and the developments of emergent identities undergirding academic performance, the project uses mixed methods (e.g., focus groups, interviews, surveys, type and levels of support, academic records, standardized math scores, attendance records, etc.) to study how African American and underrepresented minority students become proficient math learners, manage biases (including racial, gender, and economic) and persist in STEM disciplines. HBCU college students will be engaged in broadening participation research as field researchers involved in quantitative and qualitative data collection associated with the aforementioned survey research and focus groups. Students will be engaged in both high-impact tutoring practices while being involved in citizen science and action research as they will simultaneously exemplify a form of community engagement representing both their university and the community intervention undergirded by SIAP's design team (i.e., their community and site development team). A robust external evaluation will monitor and assess progress on all objectives, providing both formative and summative assessment of all Center activities.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.