HSI Pilot Project: Institutionalizing a Teaching and Learning Excellence Community of Practice focused on First-Year Student Success in STEM

HSI 试点项目：将卓越教学和学习实践社区制度化，重点关注一年级学生在 STEM 方面的成功

• 批准号: 2345247
• 负责人: Marcy Kelly
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Manhattan College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345247&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Institutionalizing; Teaching

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to develop a new Teaching and Learning Center in Manhattan College’s (MC) Kakos School of Arts and Sciences called the Center for the Engagement of the Manhattan College Community in Scientific Inclusive Teaching (e=mc2:SIT). The goal of the Center is to build and institutionalize a sustained faculty community of teaching and learning excellence within the science faculty focused on the success of all MC's first-year STEM majors, including those from Hispanic and other groups underrepresented in STEM. The impact of the Center programming will be measured by faculty adoption of best-practices in classrooms and changes to success, retention, and persistence to graduation student outcomes.The professional development opportunities provided by e=mc2:SIT will include: (1) A year-long program to engage faculty teaching first-year, STEM gateway courses in professional development to learn about, implement, and assess scientific and inclusive teaching practices in their classrooms, (2) Supplemental Instruction (SI) peer-to-peer facilitated content review in all first-year, gateway courses, and (3) professional development opportunities to work with first-year students. The First-Year Experience (FYE) course is designed to provide first-year students with skills to enhance their academic success. Data collection for evaluation of the faculty adoption of best-practices and the impact on student success will occur through the tracking of enrollment/withdrawal data, student grades, individual faculty interviews, survey responses, classroom observations, and annual site visits to assess fidelity of program implementation and to identify opportunities for continuous improvement. It has been well established in the literature on retention that there is a major attrition point for students immediately following their enrollment in undergraduate gateway STEM courses. MC's e=mc2:SIT program will engage faculty in professional development that will ultimately result in enhanced student success as measured by a decrease in STEM gateway course drop/fail/withdraw rates, enhanced first-year student retention rates, and persistence to graduation in four to six years. The aim of this project is to broaden participation within the professional STEM workforce.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.

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，该轨道1项目旨在在曼哈顿学院（MC）的Kakos艺术与科学学院建立一个新的教学中心，称为曼哈顿学院社区参与科学包容性教学中心（e= mc 2：SIT）。该中心的目标是建立和制度化的教学和学习卓越的持续教师社区内的科学教师专注于所有MC的第一年干专业的成功，包括那些从西班牙裔和其他群体在干代表性不足。中心规划的影响将通过教师在课堂上采用最佳实践以及对成功的改变来衡量，保留，并坚持毕业学生的成果。e= mc 2：SIT提供的专业发展机会将包括：（1）一个为期一年的计划，从事教师教学的第一年，STEM网关课程的专业发展，以了解，实施，和评估科学和包容性的教学实践在他们的教室，（2）补充说明（SI）点对点促进内容审查在所有第一年，网关课程，和（3）专业发展机会，与一年级学生一起工作。第一年经验（FYE）课程旨在为一年级学生提供技能，以提高他们的学术成就。通过跟踪招生/退学数据、学生成绩、个别教师访谈、调查问卷、课堂观察和年度现场访问，评估教师采用最佳实践的数据收集以及对学生成功的影响，以评估计划实施的保真度，并确定持续改进的机会。它已在文献中确立的保留，有一个主要的流失点，学生立即在本科网关STEM课程入学后。MC的e= mc 2：SIT计划将使教师参与专业发展，最终将提高学生的成功率，这是通过降低STEM网关课程的下降/失败/退出率，提高第一年的学生保留率以及坚持四到六年毕业来衡量的。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。