Broadening Participation Research Grant: Applying the Performance Pyramid to STEM Education

林肯大学HBCU-UP扩大STEM教育参与研究项目题为将绩效金字塔应用于STEM教育。这项研究建议使用一个从商业环境中的绩效评估中衍生出来的综合理论模型来考察代表人数不足的少数族裔STEM学生的支持需求。该理论模型旨在解释课程创新可能有效或可能无效的原因。它还将通过给予创新者灵活性来指导课程设计，以开发看起来不同于现有课程但仍具有相同的绩效成功基本原则的课程。拟议项目的总体目标是：(1)提高非洲裔美国学生在STEM学科中的参与度和成功程度；(2)采用绩效模型来创建衡量STEM项目中少数族裔学生支持情况的措施；以及(3)通过与当地和国家利益攸关方的沟通，广泛传播绩效模型、衡量标准和研究结果。该提案概述了三项测试评估STEM学科中种族群体差异参与基础的绩效金字塔模型的研究。第一项研究将是一项需求评估，以确定非裔美国STEM专业学生可获得的感知支持水平。第二和第三项研究将使用需求评估数据来设计两个创新计划(Math2和STEM Alliance)，以增加对非裔美国STEM专业的支持、学习和坚持。这项研究将应用绩效金字塔支持系统作为框架，以确定非裔美国学生在STEM学科中取得成功的根本原因。这最终可以为评估少数族裔STEM学生的学术支持系统提供一个可行的模式，并增加保留率。

The Lincoln University HBCU-UP Broadening participation Research in STEM Education project is entitled Applying the Performance Pyramid to STEM Education. The study proposes the use of a comprehensive theoretical model derived from performance evaluation in business settings to examine the support needs of underrepresented minority STEM students. The theoretical model is intended to explain the reasons why curricular innovations may or may not be effective. It will also guide curricular design by giving innovators the flexibility to develop programs that appear different from established programs but still bear the same foundational principles of performance success. The broad goals of the proposed project are to (1) improve the participation and success of African American students in STEM disciplines; (2) adapt a performance model to create measures to examine minority student support in STEM programs; and (3) broadly communicate the performance model, measures, and research findings through communication with local and national stakeholders.The proposal outlines three studies that test the Performance Pyramid model of evaluating the foundations of differential engagement of ethnic groups in STEM disciplines. The first study will be a needs assessment to identify the level of perceived support available to African American STEM majors. The second and third studies will use the needs assessment data to design two innovative programs (Math2 and STEM Alliance) to increase support, learning, and persistence of African American STEM majors. The study will apply the Performance Pyramid support systems as a framework to determine the foundational reasons why African American students succeed in STEM disciplines. This can ultimately produce a viable model for assessing academic support systems for minority STEM students and increase retention.