IEP:HSI: Family Centered Innovations

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，这个第二轨道项目旨在改善数学入门课程的教学和学习体验。尽管几十年来，以学生为中心的举措旨在提高学生在数学入门课程中的成绩，但这些门户看守课程让拉美裔和其他在STEM领域代表性不足的群体在高等教育中占据了一席之地。数学课程中传统的教学框架和实践通常不能满足学生的需求。以家庭为中心的教学方法将把社区家庭的专业知识整合到课程课程中，将数学概念与学生及其家庭的生活联系起来。目标是验证学生的家庭祖先知识，同时使课程内容更相关。项目团队将与A Vehicle of Engagement （AVE）的Frontera家庭领导人合作，培训数学教师，并为他们提供资源和支持，以便在他们的课程中实施以家庭为中心的课堂项目。家庭领导将访问合作机构的数学教室，以家庭为中心的项目启发、激励和支持学生。拟议的项目将利用一种新颖的以家庭为中心的变革理论，结合交叉性视角，帮助HSI教育领导者重塑他们大学的独特身份，从而反映他们所服务的学生和家庭。该项目得益于高等教育机构和社区组织领导人之间的关系伙伴关系。社区合作伙伴对家庭和教育的关注使他们成为理想的合作伙伴，帮助hsi促进STEM中代表性不足的群体的进步，建立机构-社区变革性伙伴关系，并扩大hsi对STEM的参与。如果增加站点的数量，拟议的项目有可能为西班牙裔学生及其家庭和其他未被充分代表的STEM社区的归属感提供新的线索。研究人员对一年级学生以及他们进入大学二年级和三年级的过渡特别感兴趣。为了评估修订后的数学入门课程的影响，将采用分层随机抽样和重复测量的准实验设计来确定归属感是否存在统计学上显著的正差异。社区合作伙伴将通过创建一个新的支持小组来帮助扩大参与，该小组将为来自代表性不足地区的家庭/团体提供服务。此外，收集的数据将用于制定蓝图，向上级政府建议建立一个以家庭为中心的创新办公室，以支持地方、州和国家各级代表性不足的社区。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to improve teaching and learning experiences in introductory mathematics courses. Despite decades of student-centered initiatives aimed to improve student success in introductory mathematics courses, these gateway keeper courses have kept Hispanics and other groups who are underrepresented in STEM in higher education. Traditional teaching and learning frameworks and practices in mathematics courses are, generally, not responsive to the students’ needs. The family-centered approach to teaching and learning will integrate the expertise of families from the community into the course curriculum to connect mathematical concepts to the life of the students and their families. The goal is to validate the students’ family ancestral knowledge, while making the course’s content more relevant. The project team will partner with A Vehicle of Engagement (AVE) Frontera family leaders to train mathematics faculty and provide them with the resources and support to implement a family-centered class project in their course. The family leaders will visit mathematics classrooms from the partner institution to inspire, motivate, and support students with their family-centered projects. The proposed project will utilize a novel Family-Centered Theory of Change with an intersectionality lens that can help HSI educational leaders reshape their university’s unique identity, so it reflects the students and families they serve. The project benefits from the relational partnership between leaders from an institution of higher education and leaders from a community-based organization. The community partners’ focus on family and education makes them an ideal partner to help HSIs promote the advancement of underrepresented groups in STEM, build institutional-community transformative partnerships, and broaden participation in STEM at HSIs. The proposed project has the potential to shed new light on the sense of belonging among Hispanic students and their families and other underrepresented communities in STEM, if the number of sites is increased. The researchers are particularly interested in first year students and their transition into the second and third years in college. To assess the impact of the revised introductory mathematics courses, a quasi-experimental design with stratified random sampling and repeated measures will be used to determine if there is a statistically significant positive difference in the sense of belonging. The community partner will help broaden participation by creating a new support group that will serve families/groups that come from underrepresented regions. In addition, the data collected will be used to create a blueprint to recommend to upper administration the establishment of an Office for Family-Centered Innovations to support underrepresented communities at the local, state, and national levels. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.