Implementation Project: The DREAM STEM Project: Enhancing Academics, Entrepreneurship, and STEM Career Pathways

实施项目为传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）提供支持，以设计、实施、研究和评估全面的机构努力，以增加获得科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）本科学位的学生人数，并通过加强教育和研究来提高他们的准备质量。北卡罗来纳中央大学的这个项目旨在建立在以前成功的努力基础上，以增加非裔美国学生在STEM学科的参与。该项目的目标是培养具有批判性思维的问题解决者、知识创造者、熟练的创新者和企业家精神的STEM学生。该项目将影响该机构的所有STEM专业，但每年直接支持200多名学生作为研究人员、同伴导师、暑期研究所或会议参与者。该项目的目标是：增加STEM学位课程的入学率和保留率；提高STEM学位课程的坚持度和毕业率；培养具有创造和创新能力的高技能STEM毕业生。每个目标都由一套基于证据的战略和活动支持，例如主动咨询和指导、主动学习和基于探究的教学策略、科学家身份和科学教育中的创业精神。该项目预计将对学生的动机、自我效能感和对STEM的承诺产生强烈影响，从而为学生带来更高的学术和专业成果。本研究将调查STEM课程中主动学习教学方法对学生学习动机和学习成绩的影响。项目的有效性将由内部和外部咨询委员会以及一个评估小组提供建议和评估。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Implementation Projects provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthen education and research. The project at North Carolina Central University seeks to build on previous successful efforts to increase participation of African-American students in STEM disciplines. The goal of the project is to educate STEM students who are critical thinking problem solvers, knowledge creators, skilled innovators, and are entrepreneurial. The project will impact all STEM majors at the institution, but directly supports over 200 students annually as researchers, peer tutors, summer institute or conference participants.The project has the objectives to: increase enrollment and retention in STEM degree programs; increase persistence and graduation rates in STEM degree programs; and produce highly-skilled STEM graduates who can create and innovate. Each objective is supported by a set of evidence-based strategies and activities, such as proactive advising and mentoring, active-learning and inquiry-based teaching strategies, identity as a scientist, and entrepreneurship in science education. The project expects to produce strong effects on students' motivation, self-efficacy, and commitment to STEM that will lead to higher academic and professional outcomes for the students. A research study will be conducted to investigate the effects of active-learning instructional approaches in STEM courses on student motivation for learning and their academic performance. The project will be advised and evaluated for effectiveness by internal and external advisory boards and by a team of evaluators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.