HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Scaling and Extending Exploratory Reading Groups to Strengthen Computing Pathways

HSI 实施和评估项目：扩大和扩展探索性阅读小组以加强计算途径

• 批准号: 2414332
• 负责人: David Lee
• 金额: $ 107.36万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2414332&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Implementation; Evaluation; Project; Scaling

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2: IEP aims to significantly increase the number and diversity of engineering students at UC Santa Cruz, an R1 Hispanic Serving Institution and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution, and Cabrillo College, a two-year Hispanic Serving Institution. At large universities, opportunities for undergraduate research are ad hoc and limited in number, while at two-year institutions access to these experiences is even more limited or non-existent. Undergraduate research experiences has proved to provide many benefits to participating students, including increased likelihood of pursuing graduate study, improved retention in STEM majors, clarification of career goals, and increased knowledge and technical skills; these benefits are often strongest for underrepresented students. Exploratory Reading Groups (ERGs) where students participate in low time-commitment half-quarter-long reading groups on topics centered on an active research area of a faculty member are socially relevant and thus a motivating factor in increasing student interest in STEM undergraduate research. The project will scale this program to serve 50% of engineering undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz, cumulatively hundreds of transfer-intending students at Cabrillo. This project will understand the impact of large-scale Exploratory Reading Group participation on student success in engineering, on entry into undergraduate research experiences, and on supporting transfer pathways.Specific goals for this project include growing engineering Exploratory Reading Groups (ERGs) at UCSC, performing a summative large-scale and longitudinal evaluation of their impact, and supporting transfer pathways through establishing ERGs at Cabrillo. The project will develop a refined and updated playbook for running ERGs at scale, tailoring them to better serve underrepresented students, and adapting them for two-year institutions and transfer pathways. An associated web platform and supporting scripts for running ERGs will be publicly available. To evaluate effectiveness, the project will perform a large-scale longitudinal analysis of the impact of ERGs on student success in engineering, on entry into undergraduate research experiences, and on transfer pathways, as well as an equity analysis on how experiences and outcomes differ for underrepresented populations. The project will also perform an analysis of barriers to faculty adoption of ERGs and on student participation in ERGs, especially for underrepresented student populations. In addition to scholarly publications at computing and engineering education venues, the project will produce an extended ERG playbook for growth and community college collaborations, perform broad audience dissemination, e.g. via the IUSE Disruptor Blog, or a SIGCSE workshop, and produce open-source materials and digital tools for running ERGs. 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.

在不断改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这条曲目2：IEP旨在显着增加UC Santa Cruz的工程学生的数量和多样性，R1西班牙裔西班牙裔美国人服务机构和美国亚裔美国人美国太平洋岛民学会和Cabrillo Collectity and Cabrillo Collectity and Cabrillo Collectity a Cabrillo Collectity of两年制​​他人，这是两年的Herspanic Inativation，两年的Herspanic serpanity。 在大型大学中，本科研究的机会是临时的，数量有限，而在两年的机构中，获得这些经验的机会更有限或不存在。事实证明，本科研究经验为参与学生提供了许多好处，包括增加研究生学习的可能性，改善了STEM专业的保留，澄清职业目标以及知识和技术技能；对于代表性不足的学生来说，这些好处通常是最强大的。探索性阅读小组（ERGS），学生参与以教师的活跃研究领域的主题为中心的低时间承诺，这是社会上相关的，因此是增加学生对STEM研究生研究的兴趣的激励因素。该项目将扩展该计划，以服务于加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的50％的工程本科生，累计在卡布里洛（Cabrillo）累计转会前进的学生。该项目将了解大规模探索性阅读小组参与工程学的成功，进入本科研究经验以及支持转移途径的影响。该项目的特定目标包括UCSC上的工程探索性阅读小组（ERGS），通过对他们的影响进行汇总的大规模评估，并通过建立ERG进行跑步的转移路径，并延长其影响。该项目将开发一本用于大规模运行ERGS的精致和更新的剧本，对其进行调整以更好地为代表性不足的学生提供服务，并将其适应为期两年的机构和转会途径。关联的Web平台和支持运行ERG的脚本将公开可用。为了评估有效性，该项目将对ERG对学生在工程方面的成功，进入本科研究经验以及转移途径的影响以及对体验和成果在代表性不足的人群有何不同的公平分析进行大规模的纵向分析。该项目还将对教师采用ERG和学生参与ERG的障碍进行分析，特别是对于代表性不足的学生人数。除了在计算和工程教育场所的学术出版物外，该项目还将制作一本扩展的ERG剧本，用于增长和社区大学合作，进行广泛的受众传播，例如通过IUSE DISPROUTE博客或SIGCSE研讨会，并生产用于运行ERGS的开源材料和数字工具。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被视为值得通过评估来获得支持。