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

扩大参与研究中心：HBCU 数学教育与研究中心

• 批准号: 2309090
• 负责人: Reginald Hopkins
• 金额: $ 299.91万
• 依托单位: Virginia State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Center; HBCU

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.

扩大参与研究中心支持历史上一直是黑人的学院和大学(HBCU)开展更广泛的参与研究，并成为严格研究和广泛传播关键理论、结构和教学方法以及对文化敏感的干预措施的国家中心，有助于HBCU成功地培养非裔美国STEM本科生。该项目旨在通过扩大参与研究，并为STEM和教育学科专业的学生提供有影响力的数学辅导实践，增加STEM和数学教师队伍中非裔美国人和代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量。利用代数项目和南方倡议代数项目(亚太统计所)的教学方法，在职数学教师、职前教师和STEM大学生将在美国三个地区的几个K-12公立学区实施亚太统计所的PK-16模式。在学生参与发展研究时，他们会得到指导，了解学生如何发展和保持数学熟练程度，如何管理与数学和科学领域的少数群体相关的偏见，以及尽管存在这些偏见，但仍坚持STEM学科。主要的研究重点将集中在大学生在STEM和教育中成功和坚持的来源和潜在因素。该项目以生态系统和实践社区理论的现象学变体为指导，重点关注情境、支持、适应性和非适应性应对，以及支持学业成绩的紧急身份的发展，使用混合方法(例如，焦点小组、访谈、调查、支持的类型和程度、学业成绩、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的大学生将作为实地研究人员，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，从而扩大参与研究。学生将在参与公民科学和行动研究的同时，参与高影响力的辅导实践，因为他们将同时展示一种社区参与形式，既代表他们的大学，也代表亚太统计所设计团队(即他们的社区和网站开发团队)所支持的社区干预。强有力的外部评估将监控和评估所有目标的进展，对所有中心活动提供形成性和终结性评估。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。