HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: SedimentSketch, teaching tool in and beyond the sedimentology classroom to provide equitable and inclusive learning for Hispanic students

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该轨道2项目旨在通过提高德克萨斯州A M大学HSI的本科地球科学教育的有效性来服务于国家利益。该项目旨在通过开发和课堂实施一种新颖的智能草图为基础的辅导系统，加强学生的学术经验。SedimentSketch是一个可视化的、个性化的、双语言的工具，它将联合收割机结合新的课程材料和草图识别算法，通过草图练习和自动、即时的反馈来改善学生的学习。西班牙裔学生的成绩指标与其他种族的学生明显不同，西班牙裔学生在毕业时的GPA一直较低。目标是提高西班牙裔学生的GPA和毕业时间。建议沉积素描工具可以改变高等教育地球科学课程的HSIs，使地球科学的学生互动的材料，并立即收到有用的反馈课堂外，并通过培养一个更具包容性的学习环境。SedimentSketch应用程序的结果将有助于缩小西班牙裔和非西班牙裔学生的GPA之间的差距，并提高地球科学课程的保留率。SedimentSketch将成为沉积学的第一个教学工具，为学生提供新颖的学习体验以及远程访问实验室材料的灵活性。教育材料将基于PI的沉积岩收藏和公共来源的材料，例如，国际海洋发现计划（IODP），并将包括视频，游戏和互动练习。总的来说，该项目将通过提高他们的学习，并让他们接触到一个创新的工具，为沉积学的现实生活中的科学和工业应用的动手学习活动，改善西班牙裔学生的职业轨迹。此外，SedimentSketch将是HSI环境之外的一个很好的工具，以适应有特殊需要的学生，改善学习和可访问性，并可用于外展。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to serve the national interest by enhancing the effectiveness of undergraduate geoscience education at an HSI, Texas A&M University. The project aims to strengthen student academic experiences through the development and classroom implementation of a novel intelligent sketch-based tutoring system. SedimentSketch, a visual, personalized, and dual language tool, will combine new curricular materials and sketch recognition algorithms to improve student learning through sketching exercises and automatic, instantaneous feedback. Hispanic student performance indicators are markedly different from students of other ethnicities, with Hispanic students consistently having lower GPAs at graduation. The goal is to improve Hispanic students' GPAs and time to graduation. The proposed SedimentSketch tool can transform the higher-education geoscience curriculum for HSIs by enabling geoscience students to interact with the material and receive helpful feedback instantaneously outside of class and by cultivating a more inclusive learning environment. An outcome of the SedimentSketch application will be to help close the gap between Hispanic and non-Hispanic students' GPAs and improve retention in geoscience courses.SedimentSketch will be the first teaching tool in sedimentology that provides novel learning experiences to students as well as the flexibility of remote access to lab materials. The educational materials will be based on the PI’s sedimentary rock collections and materials from public sources, e.g., the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), and will include videos, games and interactive exercises. Overall, the project will improve career trajectories for Hispanic students by enhancing their learning and exposing them to an innovative tool for hands-on learning activities for real-life scientific and industry applications of sedimentology. Additionally, SedimentSketch will be a great tool outside of the HSI environment to accommodate students with special needs, improve learning and accessibility, and can be used for outreach. 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.