The GREAT (Graduate-Retain-Engage-Advise-Team Learning) Falcon Project

威斯康星大学河瀑河大(研究生、保留、参与、建议、团队学习)猎鹰项目旨在增加生物、化学、地质、环境科学、物理和数学专业的毕业生人数。该项目以头两年的学生为目标，使用经过验证的策略来提高学生的成就率，并提供支持以增加STEM学生的留存率。伟大的猎鹰项目采取了三个方面的方法来提高STEM的保留率、进步率和毕业率。首先，教师正在实施以学生为中心的教学方法，如研究型实验室、工作室物理和面向过程的指导性研究性学习，以增加学生在入门STEM课程中的参与度和成功。其中一些教学策略正在广泛使用一种新的高科技主动学习课堂。第二，在化学和数学的关键瓶颈课程中使用同行主导的团队学习，向学生传授STEM所需的解决问题的技能。最后，混合型咨询系统帮助STEM学生解决学业、社交和/或经济方面的问题。留存专家/导师会联系出现持续留存风险因素的学生，并根据需要安排适当的干预措施。对离开STEM专业和/或大学的学生进行面谈，以评估他们离开的原因。大猎鹰项目每年直接影响到STEM专业的900名学生，旨在到资助期结束时将STEM毕业生的数量增加40人(从目前的每年130人增加到170人)。

The University of Wisconsin, River Falls GREAT (Graduate, Retain, Engage, Advise, Team learning) Falcon Project is designed to increase the number of graduates in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Environmental Science, Physics, and Mathematics. The project targets students in their first two years, using proven strategies to increase student success and support to increase the retention of STEM students. The GREAT Falcon Project takes a three-fold approach to improve STEM retention, progression, and graduation rates. First, faculty are implementing student-centered pedagogies such as research-based laboratories, Studio Physics, and Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning to increase student engagement and success in gateway STEM courses. Several of these teaching strategies are making extensive use of a new high-technology Active Learning Classroom. Second, Peer-Led Team Learning is utilized in key bottleneck courses in Chemistry and Mathematics to teach students the problem-solving skills needed in STEM. Finally, a hybrid advising system helps STEM students with academic, social, and/or financial issues. Students showing risk factors for continued retention are contacted by a retention specialist/mentor, with appropriate interventions scheduled as needed. Students who leave STEM majors and/or the university are interviewed to assess why they are leaving. The GREAT Falcon Project directly impacts 900 students per year in STEM majors and is designed to increase the number of STEM graduates by 40 per year (from the current 130 to 170 students per year) by the end of the grant period.