Conference: Eliminating the Mathematics Barrier for All Students: Bringing Innovation to Scale in Higher Education Mathematics

会议：消除所有学生的数学障碍：在高等教育数学中实现规模化创新

• 批准号: 2333132
• 负责人: David Kung
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Mathematical Association of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333132&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Eliminating; Mathematics; Barrier; Students

This project aims to serve the national interest by developing ways that undergraduate instructional reform in introductory mathematics courses could be scaled to expand efforts aimed at student success in undergraduate mathematics and increase STEM participation for students that represent the full spectrum of diverse talent at US institutions. Over the past decade, several significant innovations have emerged to address particular challenges in undergraduate mathematics, which contribute to helping students develop the basic mathematics proficiency they need to be successful in STEM. Concurrently, there has been a rise of teaching-focused faculty at research-intensive institutions who are uniquely positioned to influence introductory mathematics coursework. With a goal to help the nation meet its STEM workforce needs, this convening will explore how these teaching-focused faculty can leverage effective innovations to create a nationally scalable structure for improving student experiences and success in introductory mathematics courses.Reforms in undergraduate mathematics education that address college completion and equity in higher education are essential to meeting the nation’s STEM workforce and national security needs. There are many innovative efforts addressing the improvement of entry-level mathematics courses, and numerous projects and institutions have created, piloted, and occasionally replicated effective reform efforts that overcame particular challenges, like the need to reform pedagogy or attend to gender equity. This convening aims to address structural barriers to systemic reform that prevent implementation of many of these research-backed innovations at scale. The project aspires to leverage current practices, that distribute much of the entry-level mathematics course teaching and coordination to teaching-focused faculty, as an opportunity for new pathways to reform. As such, the convening will bring together more than 40 stakeholders, including teaching-focused faculty, to produce a concept paper articulating the needs of the community to develop new solutions to recognized obstacles for student success in introductory mathematics courses and to understand ways in which to scale research-based efforts and innovations that have shown promise in increasing student success in these courses. In addition, the convening will draft structures for change and will lay the groundwork, centered on building networked communities of teaching-focused mathematics faculty at research-intensive universities, for future efforts that could accelerate the uptake of research-based solutions to meet the challenges of introductory mathematics courses. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary 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.

该项目旨在通过开发方法来服务于国家利益，该方法可以扩展数学导论课程的本科教学改革，以扩大旨在学生在本科数学方面取得成功的努力，并增加代表美国机构各种人才的学生的STEM参与。在过去的十年里，出现了几项重大创新来解决本科数学中的特定挑战，这有助于帮助学生培养在STEM中取得成功所需的基本数学能力。与此同时，在研究密集型机构中，以教学为中心的教师队伍正在崛起，他们处于独特的地位，可以影响数学导论课程。为了帮助国家满足其STEM劳动力需求，本次会议将探讨这些以教学为中心的教师如何利用有效的创新来创建一个全国可扩展的结构，以改善学生的体验和在入门数学课程中的成功。本科数学教育改革，解决大学完成和高等教育公平问题，对于满足国家的STEM劳动力和国家安全需求至关重要。有许多创新的努力来改善入门级数学课程，许多项目和机构已经创建、试行并偶尔复制了有效的改革努力，这些努力克服了特定的挑战，如需要改革教学法或关注性别平等。这次会议旨在解决阻碍大规模实施这些研究支持的创新的系统性改革的结构性障碍。该项目希望利用目前的做法，将大部分入门级数学课程的教学和协调分配给以教学为重点的教师，作为改革新途径的机会。因此，这次会议将汇集40多个利益相关者，包括以教学为重点的教师，以产生一个概念文件，阐明社会的需求，以开发新的解决方案，以认识到学生在数学入门课程中取得成功的障碍，并了解如何扩大以研究为基础的努力和创新，这些努力和创新已经显示出在这些课程中增加学生成功的希望。此外，会议将起草变革结构，并将奠定基础，重点是在研究密集型大学建立以教学为中心的数学教师网络社区，为未来的努力，可以加速采用基于研究的解决方案，以应对入门数学课程的挑战。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持的努力，以改变和改善高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育.这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是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支持.