NSF INCLUDES Launch Pilot: STEPs to STEM

一般摘要：这个NSF包括启动试点项目，步骤干，将创建一个全州干管道内的社区大学教育的综合计划在整个新泽西州监狱。试点项目利用了教育、政府和志愿者部门之间的长期合作，包括新泽西州奖学金和监狱变革教育（STEP），所有这些部门都承诺共同努力，认证和确保所需STEM课程的衔接（可转移性）。扩大参与的挑战，将解决这个试点是扩大大学水平的STEM教育，以监禁的人，谁是绝大多数来自美国社会的最低社会经济水平的少数民族。 一般教育和STEM教育，特别是装备学生的高水平劳动力准备，提供改善生活质量的前监禁人员和他们的家庭，并有助于美国的经济成功。技术摘要：试点的四个主要目标是：1.巩固和确保STEM的清晰度课程在新泽西州监狱与一个无缝的路径到B.A.就读于罗格斯大学，新泽西的州立大学; 2.开始教授新的经认证的STEM课程，并为释放的学生提供REU和实习机会; 3.在STEM课程中对被监禁及监禁后的学生进行跟踪，使补充研究目标能够与主流教育环境相比评估学生和教师的表现; 4.与商业，政府，非营利组织，发展和公共部门的合作伙伴合作，建立一个完整的STEM管道，其长期目标是使以前被监禁的学生通过教育和劳动力参与STEM来清除他们的记录。将按以下方式执行这些目标。来自每个合作机构的高级人员和联合监督的博士后实习生将与我们的合作伙伴，领先的认证机构，拉里坦山谷社区学院谈判整个国家系统的认证和衔接条款。STEM课程的教学将由我们建立的志愿者团队开始，因为每个课程都是经过认证的。我们的行业和研究合作伙伴将开始提供REU和培训实习在第一个夏天。团队中的教育研究专业人员将指导学生和教师绩效的设计，实施和分析。新的合作伙伴将从非营利组织，企业和公共部门引入集体，以扩大这一倡议的范围和影响。

General Abstract:This NSF INCLUDES Launch Pilot project, STEPs to STEM, will create a statewide STEM pipeline within an integrated program of community college education throughout the state prisons of New Jersey. The Pilot leverages a long-standing collaboration among education,government, and volunteer sectors including NJ-Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (STEP), all of whom commit to work together to accredit and ensure articulation (transferability) of the required STEM courses. The broadening participation challenge that will be addressed by this Pilot is to extend college-level STEM education to incarcerated persons, who are overwhelmingly minorities from the lowest socioeconomic levels of American society. Education in general and STEM education in particular equips students for high-level workforce readiness, offering improved quality of life for formerly incarcerated persons and their families and contributing to American economic success.Technical Abstract:Four major goals of the Pilot are: 1. consolidate and ensure articulation of STEM A.A. courses in NJ state prisons with a seamless path to B.A. study at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; 2. begin teaching new accredited STEM courses and offering REU andinternship opportunities to released students; 3. implement tracking of students in STEM courses while incarcerated and beyond, enabling a supplementary research goal to evaluate student and teacher performance in comparison with mainstream educational settings; 4. workwith partners in business, government, non-profit, development, and public sectors to build a complete STEM pipeline with a long-term goal of enabling formerly incarcerated students to clear their records through education and workforce participation in STEM. Implementation of the goals will proceed as follows. Senior personnel from each of the cooperating institutions and a jointly-supervised postdoctoral trainee will negotiate the terms of accreditation and articulation across the state system with our partner, the lead accreditation institution, Raritan Valley Community College. Teaching of STEM courses by our established team of volunteers willcommence as each course is accredited. Our industry and research partners will begin offering REU and training internships in the first summer. Educational research professional on the team will guide the design, implementation, and analysis of student and teacher performance. New partners will be brought in to the collective from the non-profit, business, and public sectors to extend the reach and impact of this initiative.