Building Capacity: STEM Student Success from Two-year to Four-year Institutions through Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。 该项目将通过将基于课程的本科研究经验（CURES）添加到介绍性代数，生物和化学课程中来推进HSI计划的目标，这些课程作为进入STEM专业的门户。 这个项目是迈阿密戴德学院，全国最大的两年制HSI，佛罗里达大学和迈阿密大学之间的合作。 该项目预测，增加CURES将增强本科学习体验，从而支持增加获得STEM学科副学士学位的学生人数，以及学生成功转入四年制院校。该项目将确定提高本科生STEM学位课程保留率和完成率的因素，包括西班牙裔和服务不足的学生。该项目旨在通过增加受过培训的STEM专业人员的数量来丰富STEM劳动力。该项目的目标是通过采用注入CURE的STEM网关活动来提高本科生对STEM学位的坚持和完成。该项目旨在提高对在入门课程中整合CURE和其他教育支持将如何影响本科生的保留率和完成率的理解。教师将参加专业发展活动，将CURE纳入数学，生物学和化学的STEM网关课程。网关课程中的CURE将通过让学生参与具有真实的世界经验的情境化学习来增强学生的体验。在治愈注入STEM课程的学生将设计自己的调查，写一篇科学研究论文，并在公开海报会议上展示他们的发现。来自佛罗里达大学和迈阿密大学的高年级本科生和研究生，沿着来自迈阿密戴德学院的教授，将在迈阿密戴德学院领导真实的研究实验室。通过课程优化，以及教师的专业发展，该项目旨在：1）增加STEM学生在数学，生物学和化学学科的CURE注入STEM网关课程中的入学比例; 2）增加从第一个连续STEM课程到第二个连续STEM课程的本科生人数; 3）增加在三年内完成STEM副学士学位的本科生人数; 4）增加成功转入STEM学士学位课程的学生比例; 5）增加STEM教师教授CURE注入STEM课程的人数; 6）增加参加CURE注入STEM课程的学生人数。通过收集和分析定量和定性数据，该项目可以产生有关刺激学生在社区学院一级坚持和完成STEM的因素的新知识。该项目旨在开发一种将CURE整合到STEM课程中的模式，该模式可能对其他机构，特别是西班牙裔服务社区学院有用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI program will also generate new knowledge about how to achieve these aims. This project will advance the aims of the HSI Program by adding course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) to introductory algebra, biology, and chemistry courses, which serve as gateways into STEM majors. This project is a collaboration between Miami Dade College, the largest two-year HSI in the nation, the University of Florida, and the University of Miami. The project predicts that the addition of CURES will enhance the undergraduate learning experience, thus supporting increases in the number of students obtaining associate degrees in STEM disciplines and in the success of students in transferring to four-year institutions. The project will identify factors for increasing retention and completion rates in STEM degree programs for undergraduates, including Hispanic and underserved students. The project seeks to enrich the STEM workforce by increasing the number of trained STEM professionals.The goal of the project is to increase undergraduate persistence and completion in the STEM degrees through the adoption of CURE-infused STEM gateway activities. This project aims to improve understanding of how integration of CUREs and other educational supports in gateway courses will affect retention and completion rates of undergraduate students. Faculty will participate in professional development activities to incorporate CUREs into STEM gateway courses in mathematics, biology, and chemistry. The CUREs in gateway courses will be designed to enhance the student experience by engaging students in contextualized learning with real world experiences. The students in the CURE-infused STEM courses will devise their own investigations, write a scientific research paper, and present their findings at a public poster session. The senior undergraduate students and graduate students from the University of Florida and the University of Miami, along with the faculty from Miami Dade College teaching the gateway courses, will lead authentic research laboratories at Miami Dade College. Through curricular enhancement, together with faculty professional development, this project seeks to 1) increase the percentage of STEM students enrolled in CURE-infused STEM gateway courses in the disciplines of mathematics, biology, and chemistry; 2) increase the number of undergraduates continuing from a first to a second sequential STEM course; 3) increase the number of undergraduates completing a STEM associate degree in three years; 4) increase the percentage of students successfully transferring into STEM baccalaureate programs; 5) increase the number of STEM faculty teaching CURE-infused STEM courses; and 6) increase the number of students participating in CURE-infused STEM courses. By collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, the project can generate new knowledge about the factors that stimulate student persistence and completion in STEM at the Community College level. The project seeks to develop a model for integrating CUREs into the STEM curriculum that could be useful to other institutions, especially Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges.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.