Targeted Infusion Project: Engaging Students for Higher Retention and Building Stronger Foundations in Pre-Calculus Using the Flipped Model

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和基于证据的创新模式和方法的研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求STEM研究生课程和/或职业。诺福克州立大学的这个项目旨在通过实施翻转课堂积极吸引学生，提高微积分预科的通过率。由于HBCUs产生了绝大多数进入STEM劳动力的非洲裔美国人，这些努力不仅有助于这一趋势，而且还产生了准备更充分的STEM毕业生。这些努力将对支持学生完成STEM学位产生重大影响，从而增加进入研究生院和工作场所的STEM专业人数。此外，该课程结构还将在社区研讨会上向中学教育专业人员介绍。该项目的总体目标是提高STEM微积分预科课程的成功率，并加深数学联系，促进学生学习。具体目标是：1）提高预演算的通过率; 2）提供预演算的坚实基础，以支持STEM主要保留的增加。通过翻转模型的更多实践方法，该项目将努力加强定量能力，推理和批判性思维能力。STEM教育和NSU在实现这些目标方面的好处包括更多地保留STEM领域的本科专业，在STEM主题和自主学习者的发展方面有更强的基础，这导致学生获得学位和进入劳动力市场的比例更高。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. The project at Norfolk State University seeks to raise the passing rate of pre-calculus by actively engaging students through implementation of the flipped classroom. As HBCUs produce the vast majority of African Americans entering the STEM workforce, these efforts will not only help this trend but also produce STEM graduates who are better prepared. These efforts will have a big impact on bolstering students' completion of STEM degrees, thus increasing the number of STEM majors entering graduate schools and the work place. In addition, this course structure will also be presented to secondary education professionals in workshops in the community.The overall goals of the project are to increase the success rate in the STEM pre-calculus course and to deepen math connections to boost student learning. The specific goals are to: 1) increase the passing rate in pre-calculus; and 2) to provide a strong foundation in pre-calculus to bolster an increase in STEM major retention. Through the more hands-on approach via the flipped model, this project will strive to strengthen quantitative abilities, reasoning and critical thinking skills. The benefits to STEM education and NSU in achieving these goals include greater retention of undergraduate majors in STEM fields with a stronger foundation in STEM topics and development of autonomous learners which leads to a higher rate of students obtaining degrees and entering the workforce.