Broadening Participation and Increasing the Success of Low-Income Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: A Knowledge Exchange Workshop

这个多学科的学术中介研讨会汇集了科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的教职员工、管理人员和研究人员，他们研究高等教育，以解决经济、学术和学生支持问题，扩大低收入学生在STEM攻读学位和职业的参与和成功。知识交流的中心目的是制定共同的方法来产生知识，衡量和描述成功的循证战略，以加速知识的产生，以及在中学后教育水平上对STEM教育进行系统和可持续的变革。该项目利用并建立了美国学院和大学协会两个组织活动的努力和基础设施：万花筒计划(AAC&Amp；U PKAL)和STEM Central，这两个活动的共同重点是改善高等教育中的STEM教育。讲习班的预期成果是促进和加强教育/社会科学研究人员、以学科为基础的研究人员以及STEM教职员工和管理人员之间的合作和社区的形成--致力于审查和解决与扩大参与和提高低收入学生的成功相关的问题，这些学生正在追求STEM的副学士学位、学士学位和研究生学位，并寻求进入STEM劳动力大军。对工作的评估有两个目标：第一个目标是检查不同受邀参与者之间进行知识交流的程度；第二个目标是考虑向更广泛的STEM教育界提供的信息的质量及其影响STEM教学行为的能力。基于结果的混合方法评估是以先前对跨学科小组内部如何交流知识的研究为指导的。为此，对知识交流的评价将评估该项目在多大程度上能够促进交流与低收入STEM学生的本科教育有关的成功战略以及随后这些战略的实施。

This multi-disciplinary academic brokering workshop brings together Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty and administrators and researchers who study higher education to address issues of financial, academic, and student support that broaden the participation and success of low-income students pursuing degrees and careers in STEM. The central purpose of the Knowledge Exchange is to develop shared approaches to generating knowledge, measuring, and describing successful evidence-based strategies to accelerate knowledge generation, and systemic and sustainable change in STEM education at the post-secondary education level. The project leverages and builds upon the efforts and infrastructures of two organizational activities of the Association of American Colleges & Universities: Project Kaleidoscope (AAC&U PKAL) and STEM Central, whose combined emphasis is on improving STEM education in higher education. The expected outcome of the workshop is to increase and strengthen the development of collaborations and formation of a community among educational/social science researchers, discipline-based researchers, and STEM faculty and administrators - committed to examining and addressing the issues associated with broadening participation and increasing the success of low income students, who are pursing associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees in STEM and seeking entry into the STEM workforce. The evaluation of the effort has two aims: the first examines the extent of knowledge exchange that occurs between a diverse group of invited participants; and the second considers the quality of the information being made available to the wider STEM education community and its capacity to impact STEM teaching behavior. The mixed method outcomes-based evaluation is guided by prior research into how knowledge is exchanged within interdisciplinary groups. To that end, the evaluation of the Knowledge Exchange will assess the degree to which the project is able to facilitate the exchange of successful strategies relevant to the undergraduate education of low-income STEM students and the subsequent implementation of those strategies.