Collaborative Research: Evaluating Access: How a Multi-Institutional Network Promotes Equity and Cultural Change through Expanding Student Voice

合作研究：评估访问：多机构网络如何通过扩大学生的声音来促进公平和文化变革

• 批准号: 2309308
• 负责人: Gina Quan
• 金额: $ 5.73万
• 依托单位: San Jose State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Evaluating; Access; How

Addressing the critical issue of representation and equity in the physical sciences requires meaningful cultural change. The Access Network, founded in 2015, directly addresses this national priority by connecting institutions with student-led, equity-oriented programs to share and disseminate research-based strategies and provide support for overcoming common barriers. Through mentored intersite student cohorts and an annual Assembly, Access fosters community, develops student leaders, reinforces institutional memory, and provides a national context, all important factors for sustainability and scalability. At the Network’s core is a unique philosophy that recognizes and elevates students as drivers of change, recognizing them as powerful members of the STEM community and the future leaders of physics. An innovative evaluation partnership among external evaluators, educational research faculty within the network, and internal student evaluation fellows will document the network’s impacts on student leaders, local sites and individual departments. These activities combine a student-driven, community-based approach with the expertise of external evaluators, resulting in a more complete picture of the model.This work will directly support students in the Network, at individual institutions, and beyond by: (i) continuously improving Network activities that support the professional development and retention of junior scientists from diverse backgrounds, (ii) cultivating new student leaders, and (iii) growing a repository of materials and best practices that will increase the efficacy of local sites. It will advance knowledge of equity-focused change in the physical sciences and develop infrastructure for robust evaluation to document, understand, and promote Network aspects crucial to success. The novel evaluation partnership proposed among external evaluators, internal evaluation mentors, and student evaluation advance the conception of participatory evaluation and sets a model for programmatic evaluation. More effectively supporting sites in local evaluation enables their sustainability, as they can better understand and communicate their impacts to local stakeholders. Insights from evaluation activities not only result in a more complete picture of the Access Network model, informing improvements to the network, but also benefit others wishing to enact equity-focused cultural change in STEM. The knowledge about effective programs will be especially helpful for those enacting shared leadership models, expanding the critical role students can play in transforming communities.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.

解决物理科学中的代表性和公平性这一关键问题需要有意义的文化变革。接入网络，成立于2015年，通过连接机构与学生主导的，以公平为导向的计划，分享和传播基于研究的战略，并为克服共同的障碍提供支持，直接解决这一国家优先事项。通过指导站点间的学生群体和年度大会，Access培养社区，培养学生领袖，加强机构记忆，并提供国家背景，所有这些都是可持续性和可扩展性的重要因素。在网络的核心是一个独特的理念，承认和提升学生作为变革的驱动力，承认他们作为STEM社区的强大成员和物理学的未来领导者。 外部评估人员、网络内的教育研究人员和内部学生评估研究员之间的创新评估伙伴关系将记录网络对学生领袖、地方网站和个别部门的影响。这些活动将联合收割机结合学生驱动的、以社区为基础的方法和外部评估人员的专门知识，从而更全面地了解这一模式。（i）不断改进网络活动，支持来自不同背景的年轻科学家的专业发展和留用，（ii）培养新的学生领袖，以及（iii）建立一个资料库和最佳做法库，以提高当地网站的效率。它将促进对物理科学中以公平为中心的变革的认识，并为强有力的评估开发基础设施，以记录，理解和促进对成功至关重要的网络方面。外部评价者、内部评价指导者和学生评价之间的新型评价伙伴关系提出了参与式评价的概念，为项目评价提供了一种模式。在地方评估中更有效地支持网站，可使其具有可持续性，因为它们可以更好地了解并向当地利益攸关方传达其影响。从评估活动中获得的见解不仅可以更全面地了解接入网络模型，为网络的改进提供信息，而且还可以使希望在STEM中实施以公平为重点的文化变革的其他人受益。有关有效计划的知识将特别有助于那些制定共同领导模式的人，扩大学生在转变社区中发挥的关键作用。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。