Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE)

社区学院是美国高等教育不可或缺的一部分，招收了很大比例的本科生，包括一半的大一和大二学生。社区和技术学院的低收入家庭学生、有色人种学生和第一代大学生的比例高于四年制大学。由于历史、使命、组织结构和学生人数的不同，社区学院的教师比四年制大学的教师花更多的时间在教学上，花更少的时间在研究和奖学金上。然而，在整个高等教育中，发表在同行评议期刊上的文章仍然是评估大学教师生产力和工作量的主要方式。在一个教师能力通常以出版物而不是教学经验来衡量的世界里，社区和技术学院的教师提交发表的文章数量较少，导致人们认为社区和技术学院的声誉较低，并对社区和技术学院提供的教育质量产生误解。随着《先进技术教育杂志》（J ATE）的出现，这些高价值的、鲜为人知的创新思想的来源可以被带到更多的读者面前。J ATE不仅为社区学院提供了一个机会，也为各级教育工作者提供了一个机会，让他们了解正在为全国最多样化的本科生开发的技术教育和本科研究的研究和最佳实践。该项目将支持J ATE制定期刊的可持续发展计划，同时也支持教师和学生磨练他们撰写文章的技能，以提交给同行评审的期刊。J ATE的目标是通过建立一个由来自社区和技术学院的同行评议的出版作者组成的社区，促进和推进全国的技术教育。通过发表技术教育方面的创新成果，该项目将促进美国日益多样化的本科生教学的最佳实践，并增加社区学院教师和学生的影响力和认可度。该目标将通过项目团队成员、社区学院教师和学生的专业发展来实现；为ATE项目负责人、合作项目负责人、评估人员和社区学院教师广泛传播资源和信息；还有一份商业计划，以维持唯一一份致力于技术人员培训的同行评议期刊。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。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。

Community colleges are integral to the higher education landscape in the United States, enrolling a large percentage of all undergraduate students, including half of all freshman and sophomores. Community and technical colleges teach a higher proportion of low-income students, students of color, and first-generation college students than their counterparts at four-year institutions. Because of differences in the history, mission, organizational structures, and student populations, community college faculty spend more time teaching and fewer hours engaged in research and scholarship than four-year college faculty. Yet within higher education as a whole, publication in peer-reviewed journals remains a primary way of evaluating the productivity and workload of college faculty. In a world where faculty competence is often measured in terms of publications rather than teaching experience, the lower number of articles submitted for publication by faculty at community and technical colleges contributes to perceptions of lower prestige, and misperceptions of the quality of education provided by community and technical colleges. With the emergence of the Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE), these highly-valuable, little-known sources of innovative ideas can be brought to a larger audience. J ATE represents an opportunity not only for community colleges, but for educators at all levels to learn about research and best practices in technician education and undergraduate research that are being developed for the most diverse population of undergraduates in the country. This project will support the J ATE in developing a sustainability plan for the journal while also supporting both faculty and students in honing their skills on crafting articles for submission to peer-reviewed journals.The goal of J ATE is to promote and advance technician education nationwide by building a community of peer-reviewed published authors from community and technical colleges. By publishing innovations in technician education, this project will promote best practices for teaching America’s increasingly diverse undergraduate student population and increase the reach and recognition of community college faculty and students. The goal will be achieved through professional development of project team members, community college faculty and students; broad dissemination of resources and information for ATE PIs, Co-PIs, Evaluators, and community college faculty; and a business plan for sustaining the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to technician training. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the Nation's economy.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.