Fort Peck Community College Eci Project

部落学院和大学方案(TCUP)的一个目标是扩大为国家土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的STEM教学和研究能力。在这些机构扩大STEM课程的范围，可以扩大学生在STEM领域追求富有挑战性和回报的职业的机会，提供在可能具有文化意义的领域进行研究的机会，并鼓励社区和世代对科学和数学教育的欣赏。这个项目直接与这一目标相一致，而且将向知识主体介绍吸引、留住和毕业于工程专业的美国印第安人学生的战略。派克堡社区学院(FPCC)将开发一个工程预科(AS)学位课程，该学位课程可以转到工程学或相关STEM领域的学士学位课程。这项工作的总体目的是增加追求STEM职业道路并在FPCC获得STEM学位的美国印第安人学生的数量。该项目解决了该地区对工程师日益增长的需求，其中一些可归因于该地区的化石燃料和可再生能源活动。重要的是增加FPCC的STEM专业和毕业生的数量，作为一种手段，帮助阿西尼博因和苏族部落成员进入这些高增长的劳动力部门。该项目扩展了FPCC的学位项目，包括一个新的高级工程预科学位，以满足该地区对工程师日益增长的需求，利用社区学院新兴研究的有前途的策略来改善教学和学生在数学方面的成就，建立创新的支持，帮助学生完成FPCC的STEM副学位并进入STEM学士学位，并扩大学院在STEM领域的本科生研究能力。该项目建立在新兴社区学院研究的有前途的实践的基础上并推进研究，通过早期评估、课程重新设计和有针对性的辅导、扩大获得学习支持的机会、教师发展、从两年制学位过渡到四年制学位的支持，以及真实的研究经验。该项目将解决有关这些有希望的策略对攻读STEM学位的美国印度学生的影响的研究问题。该项目采用多维方法进行评估，该方法利用定性和定量方法收集数据。评价计划的依据是专门为技术合作单位设计的投资回报模式的原则，并以菲利普斯和菲利普斯的工作为基础。这些衡量标准和数据元素将用于评估项目实现其目标的情况，以帮助项目领导层就项目实施作出以数据为导向的决策，并以研究为基础了解拟议战略的影响。每学期将收集形成性数据，为项目正在进行的活动提供信息，并将使用总结性数据来确定项目的成功、优势、挑战和下一步的建议。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to expand the STEM instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricula offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will inform the body of knowledge about strategies that attract, retain and graduate American Indian students in engineering. The Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) will develop a Pre-Engineering Associate of Science (AS) degree program that is transferrable to a bachelor-degree program in Engineering or a related STEM field. The overall purpose of this work is to increase the number of American Indian students pursuing STEM career pathways and achieving STEM degrees at FPCC. The project addresses a growing need for engineers in the region, some of which can be attributed to region's fossil fuel and renewable energy activities. It is important to increase the number of STEM majors and graduates at FPCC as a means to assist Assiniboine and Sioux tribal members to enter these high-growth sectors of the workforce. The project expands FPCC's degree offerings to include a new AS degree in Pre-Engineering to meet the growing need for engineers in the region, use promising strategies from emerging research on community colleges to improve instruction and student achievement in mathematics, build innovative supports to help students complete STEM associate degrees at FPCC and matriculate to STEM bachelor degrees, and expand the college's undergraduate research capacity in STEM fields.The project builds on and advances research on promising practices from emerging community college research to promote increased student math proficiency and success in STEM fields through early assessment, curriculum redesign and targeted tutoring, expanded access to learning supports, faculty development, transition support from two-year to four-year degrees, and authentic research experiences. The project will address research questions regarding the effect of these promising strategies with American Indian students pursuing STEM degrees. The project is evaluated using a multi-dimensional approach that utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods for collecting data. The evaluation plan is based on the tenets of a model for return on investment specifically designed for TCUs and based on the work of Phillips and Phillips. These measures and data elements will be used to evaluate how well the project is meeting its objectives to help the project leadership make data-driven decisions regarding project implementation and to derive research-based understanding of the impact of the strategies proposed. Formative data will be collected each semester to inform ongoing activities of the project and summative data will be used to make determinations regarding project successes, strengths, challenges, and recommendations for next steps.