Building Capacity: Collaboration for Inclusive and Engaging Curriculum, Instruction, and Achievement

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。加州州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯分校（Stanislaus State）的这个项目将通过发展以证据为基础的教学和以学生为中心的学习环境的STEM教师文化，提高STEM学生的保留率、毕业率和成功率，从而推进HSI项目的目标。在四年的时间里，教师队伍将参加暑期教学机构、学年研讨会和同伴支持小组。据预测，这个由教师主导的专业发展计划将改变斯坦尼斯劳斯州立大学所有STEM学科的教学和提高学生的成功。如果成功，该项目可以作为其他大学改善STEM教育的制度变革努力的典范。该项目的总体目标是通过增加基于证据和文化参与的教学实践的使用，改变斯坦尼斯劳斯州立大学的STEM教学文化。该项目旨在产生以下方面的新知识：(1)教师驱动的专业发展计划对STEM教学实践产生广泛影响的有效性；(2)在教师中实施“文化参与型校园环境模型”是否能显著改善HSI学生成功的社会心理指标；(3)持续的大学专业发展活动如何对大学教师的教学文化产生有意义的变化。将收集和分析定性和定量数据。项目影响将通过衡量所服务的学生所实现的利益来评估。该项目还将评估教师，并将跟踪用于开发、实施和维持项目活动的过程，以促进其他机构采用类似的计划。通过一个全面的专业发展计划，在斯坦尼斯劳斯州立大学的教学文化中产生广泛的变化，该项目计划将循证教学实践的使用增加一倍，并降低所有STEM门户课程的不通过率。反过来，这些改进有望支持提高学生在STEM课程中的表现，增强STEM专业学生的归属感和更高的保留率。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。

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 at the California State University-Stanislaus (Stanislaus State), will advance the aims of the HSI Program by improving STEM student retention, graduation, and success by developing a STEM faculty culture of evidence-based teaching and student-centered learning environments. Over a four-year period, cohorts of faculty will attend summer teaching institutes, academic year workshops, and peer support groups. It is predicted that this faculty-led professional development program will transform teaching and improve student success across all STEM disciplines at Stanislaus State. If successful, this project could serve as a model for institutional change efforts to improve STEM education at other universities. The overall goal of this project is to transform the culture of STEM teaching and learning at Stanislaus State by increasing the use of evidence-based and culturally-engaging teaching practices. The project aims to generate new knowledge about: (1) the effectiveness of a faculty-driven professional development program to broadly influence STEM teaching practices; (2) whether implementation of the Culturally Engaging Campus Environments Model among faculty results in measurable improvements in psychosocial indicators of student success at an HSI; and (3) the ways that sustained and collegial professional development activities can produce meaningful changes in the teaching culture of college faculty. Both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and analyzed. Project impact will be evaluated by measuring the benefits realized by the students it serves. The project will also assess faculty, and will track the processes used to develop, implement, and sustain project activities, to facilitate the adoption of similar programs at other institutions. Through a holistic professional development program that produces widespread changes in the culture of teaching and learning at Stanislaus State, this project plans to double the use of evidence-based teaching practices and decrease the non-pass rate in all STEM gateway courses. In turn, these improvements are expected to support increased performance of students in STEM courses, and increased sense of belonging and higher retention rates among STEM majors.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.