POWRE: The Human Origin Link

我最初的工作是为了更好地了解在所有类型的机构中，科学，数学，工程或技术（SMET）专业的非裔美国本科生的持久性和成功的影响。 这项工作发现的证据表明，这些学生中有许多人认为自己是“外部”的小型和微型企业社区。 这种看法是紧张的，并与未能坚持这些学科。 这项原创性研究还发现，机构行为的改变只是解决方案的一部分。 有证据表明，要超越对局外人地位的看法，可能需要改变个人（即，个别学生）的理解，想法，和种族多样性的特点和起源的信念。 该项目将为大学前非裔美国学生设计机会，在实验室环境中以调查模式学习科学。 这些将被精心设计，以实现两个目标。 一个是提高学生对科学（人类学）和数学的学习。 另一个是协助学生在一系列的“工作站”中探索种族多样性的因素，以帮助他们了解我们共同的人类起源，并引导他们看到他们自然是中小型企业社区的一部分。 该项目得到了人类起源和文化发展中心以及密苏里州-圣刘易斯大学教育学院教学司的全力支持。

My original work sought better understanding of influences on the persistence and success of African American undergraduates in science, mathematics, engineering, or technology (SMET) majors in all types of institutions. This work found evidence that many of these students identified themselves as being "outside" the SMET community. This perception was stressful, and was associated with a failure to persist within these disciplines. This original research also found that changes in institutional behavior are only a part of the solution. Evidence suggests that surmounting the perception of outsider status may require changing personal (i.e., individual student's) understanding, ideas, and beliefs about the characteristics and origins of racial diversity. This project will design opportunities for pre-college African American students for learning science in an investigative mode in a laboratory setting. These will be deliberately designed to achieve two goals. One is to improve student learning of science (anthropology) and mathematics. The other is to facilitate students to explore factors identified with racial diversity in a series of "workstations" that facilitate their understanding of our common human origins and lead them to see that they are naturally part of the SMET community. This project has the full support of the Center for Human Origin and Cultural Development and the Division of Teaching and Learning of the School of Education at the University of Missouri - Saint Louis.