Culturally Responsive Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

在NSF改善本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这一Track 1项目“科学、技术、工程和数学方面的文化响应教育(新月)”旨在加强机构能力，以增加未被充分代表的少数族裔学生(URM)的招生、保留和毕业。该项目的目标是为URM学生提供创新的机会，以改善他们的教育，提高可转移的技能，并为地区和国家对多样化和能干的STEM劳动力的需求做出贡献，以应对21世纪的社会挑战。新月会是建立在传统大学与华盛顿州中南部农村地区的K-12学校、社区学院和研究密集型机构的长期合作的基础上，以增加URM的参与，特别是针对亚基马山谷的西班牙裔和美洲原住民学生。新月项目的活动包括：通过Escala计划为STEM教师的专业发展制定创新战略；通过院校伙伴关系改进STEM课程；通过实践研究经验和社区拓展向学生提供体验式学习；以及开发密集的文化响应学生支持服务，以增加在STEM学科接受高等教育的学生数量和多样性。新月计划活动将赋予教师创新和持续的教学策略，教授URM学生，并培养拥有广博知识和基本生活技能的下一代全球公民，以在21世纪快速变化的环境中取得成功。新月网络将探索影响STEM课程成功的因素，以及在最有影响力和关键的教育转型中守门人，这些转变限制了URM学生的参与度和进入STEM职业生涯，测试将这些看门人转化为积极力量的创新模式。新月计划是一个教师发展、课程改进、扩大教育机构多样性和实施以学生为中心的活动的能力建设计划，重点关注URM学生从1)中学到大学，2)大学第一学期和第二学期之间，3)从低级到高级课程，以及4)STEM学科本科生和研究生院之间的关键过渡。新月将测试在STEM教学和学生支持服务中应用文化响应型主动学习模式是否会改善学生在STEM学科的表现以及学术和职业生涯发展。新月项目旨在扩大与地区高中的可持续合作网络，以增加URM STEM准备的第一代新生本科生的数量，增加URM学生申请对STEM学科感兴趣的数量，并在项目期间增加STEM专业的申报数量，改善URM STEM学生的表现和留存，并增加URM学生在完成本科学位后继续攻读STEM学科的研究生数量。项目成果将与其他寻求改善留存和毕业的HSI分享，从而对全国STEM URM队列产生乘数影响。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 1 project 'Culturally Responsive Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CRESCENT) ' aims to strengthen the institutional capacity for increasing the enrollment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented minority students (URM). The goal of the project is to provide innovative opportunities for URM students to improve their education, enhance transferable skills, and contribute to the regional and national need for a diverse and competent STEM workforce to address societal challenges of the 21st Century. CRESCENT is built on the longstanding collaboration of Heritage University with K-12 schools, community colleges and research-intensive institutions in rural south-central Washington State for increased URM participation, targeting in particular Hispanic and Native American students in the Yakima Valley. The CRESCENT project activities include innovative strategies for professional development of STEM faculty through the ESCALA program, STEM curriculum enhancement through institutional partnerships, offering experiential learning to students through hands-on research experiences and community outreach, and development of intensive culturally-responsive student support services to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing higher education in STEM disciplines. CRESCENT program activities will empower faculty with innovative and sustained pedagogical strategies for teaching URM students and prepare the next generation of global citizens with a breadth of knowledge and essential life skills to succeed in the rapidly changing milieu of the 21st Century.The CRESCENT network will explore factors influencing the success of STEM gatekeeper classes and gatekeepers at the most influential and critical educational transitions that are limiting URM student engagement and advancement into STEM careers, testing innovative models transforming these gatekeepers into positive forces. CRESCENT is a capacity building program for faculty development, curriculum enhancement, expanding diversity in educational institutions, and implementing student-centered activities focusing on critical transition of URM students from 1) secondary school to college, 2) between the first and second semester of college, 3) from lower division to upper division coursework, and 4) between undergraduate and graduate institutions in STEM disciplines. CRESCENT will test if applied culturally responsive active learning models for STEM teaching and student support services will improve student performance in STEM disciplines and academic and professional career advancement. The CRESCENT project aims to expand a sustainable collaborative network with regional high schools to increase the pool of URM STEM-prepared first-generation freshmen undergraduate students, increase the number of URM student applications indicating interest in STEM disciplines and increase in declarations of STEM majors during the project period, improve the performance and retention of URM STEM students, and increase the number of URM students who pursue graduate studies in STEM disciplines after completion of their undergraduate degrees. The project outcomes will be shared with other HSIs seeking to improve retention and graduation, resulting in multiplier impacts on STEM URM cohorts across the nation. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these goals.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.