ISU's Noyce Scholarships for STEM Teachers of Under-Represented Groups

在美国国家科学基金会的罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金项目的资助下，ISU为代表性不足群体的STEM教师设立的诺伊斯奖学金正在招募农业、生物、化学、地球与空间科学、数学、物理、技术与工程等STEM专业的本科生，并将他们培养成6-12年级的科学或数学教师。该项目将在5年内资助40名学者，在他们的大三和大四获得10,000美元的奖学金，并有机会在他们的大三获得3000美元的研究实习（作为大学研究实验室之一的带薪实习生），并在夏季获得1560美元的教学实习（共同教授来自谷景学区的6-8年级学生的STEM夏令营）。伊利诺伊州立大学（ILU）正在与Joliet初级学院（JJC）和芝加哥联合学区的Valley View学区合作，从初级学院和ISU招募大二STEM专业的学生成为NOYCE学者（获得STEM专业学位和中学教学证书），并吸引初中学生将STEM教学作为职业。该项目的主要目标是：增加来自代表性不足群体的学生寻求STEM专业和二级证书的人数，增加从JJC到ISU的学生转学率，以寻求STEM二级证书，发展Noyce学者对STEM的概念知识，以便有效实施下一代科学标准，发展学者教授不同学生群体的技能，发展学者对科学本质的理解，培养学者对STEM教学的自我效能感，提高中学生上大学和从事STEM职业的兴趣。前ISU Noyce项目（集中在芝加哥市的城市高需求学校）的50名毕业生中，94%仍在这些高需求的城市学校任教。目前的项目将使ISU能够利用从城市项目中吸取的经验教训，扩大他们的努力，服务于郊区的高需求地区，并使学生群体受益，他们的重要性刚刚开始意识到，这些学生来自目前在STEM教学领域代表性不足的群体，他们可能不会考虑参加ISU和/或寻求二级教学证书来教授STEM学科。此外，它将支持两个新的合作伙伴关系：一个是在ISU和一个多样化的、高需求的学区之间，这个学区以前很少与ISU互动；另一个是在ISU和Joliet初级学院之间，这应该会增加从伊利诺伊州最大的社区学院之一到ISU的转学率。评估活动将采用准实验设计。实验组由国际滑联诺伊斯学者和夏令营参与者组成，对照组由国际滑联非诺伊斯学者和非夏令营参与者组成。ISU非noyce学者将从STEM学科的教师教育项目中招募。夏令营对比组将从未参加夏令营的中学生中招募。将采用混合方法（定量和定性数据收集）对项目的有效性进行全面分析，并对总体结果进行深入解释。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, ISU's Noyce Scholarships for STEM Teachers of Under-Represented Groups is recruiting undergraduate STEM majors in agriculture, biology, chemistry, earth and space science, mathematics, physics, technology & engineering and preparing them to become grades 6-12 Science or Math teachers. The project will fund 40 Scholars over 5 years, with $10,000 scholarships in their junior and senior year as Noyce Scholars along with the opportunity to earn a $3000 research internship during their junior year (as a paid intern in one of the university's research laboratories) and a $1560 teaching internship during the summer (co-teaching a STEM summer camp to 6-8th graders from the Valley View School District). Illinois State University (ILU) is partnering with Joliet Junior College (JJC) and Valley View School District of the Chicago Unified School District to both recruit sophomore STEM majors from the junior college and ISU to become NOYCE Scholars (earning both a degree as a STEM major and a secondary teaching credential) and to interest junior high students in STEM teaching as a career. The primary objectives of this project are to: increase the number of students from under-represented groups seeking a STEM major and a secondary credential, increase the transfer rate of students from JJC to ISU to seek a STEM secondary credential, develop Noyce Scholars' conceptual knowledge of STEM in order to effectively implement the Next Generation Science Standards, develop Scholars' skills in teaching a diverse student body, develop Scholars' understanding of the nature of science, develop Scholars' self-efficacy toward STEM teaching, and increase middle school students' interest in attending college and pursuing a STEM career. Ninety-four percent (94%) of the 50 graduates from a previous ISU Noyce program (centered on urban high needs schools in the city of Chicago) are still teaching in these high-needs urban schools. The current project will enable ISU to use the lessons learned from that urban based project to expand their efforts to serve a suburban high-needs district and to benefit a student population whose importance is just beginning to be realized, students from groups currently underrepresented in the STEM teaching field who might not have otherwise considered attending ISU and/or seeking a secondary teaching credential to teach a STEM discipline. Furthermore, it will support two new partnerships: one between ISU and a diverse, high-need school district that previously had few interactions with ISU and another between ISU and Joliet Junior College, which should increase the transfer rate from one of Illinois's largest community colleges to ISU. Assessment activities will feature a quasi-experimental design. Experimental groups will comprise ISU Noyce Scholars and summer camp participants while comparison group will comprise ISU non-Noyce scholars and non-summer camp participants, respectively. ISU non-Noyce Scholars will be recruited from their teacher education programs in STEM disciplines. The summer camp comparison group will be recruited from middle school students who did not attend the camp. A mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative data collection) approach will be used to provide a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of the project, and provide an in-depth interpretation of the overall results.