Supporting HSI STEM Departments to Achieve Transformative Inclusion in Undergraduate STEM Education

在改进的本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这个Track 1项目旨在通过转变STEM系文化，增加STEM学生，特别是拉美裔学生的参与度和成就率。通过这种方式，该项目计划解决西班牙裔学生在STEM中长期代表性不足的问题。为了实现这些目标，该项目将开发、测试和发布为期两年的部门股权转换路径。这条道路将包括研讨会和探索导致西班牙裔在STEM中代表性不足的因素，如刻板印象威胁和隐性偏见。这条途径将向教师介绍具有文化响应性的教学法。该项目将支持在入门STEM课程中合作实施高影响力的实践，以增加学生在STEM领域的归属感。合作将包括团队合作和迭代课程改进，通过课堂研究，教师主导的研究和观察协议，以改善学生的学习。这项工作将包括审查制度障碍和机会，以增加STEM学生与校园资源的联系。该项目的目的是制定方案，以帮助HSI STEM部门改善学生在STEM中的体验和结果，并促进对部门层面工作的影响的了解，以增加所有学生的公平性和包容性。该项目将支持实施已知的做法，以减少被边缘化的经历，特别是西班牙裔学生的经历，并将审查全部门实施响应文化的教学法对学生在STEM中的坚持性、成功和归属感的影响。研究方法包括访谈、学生和教师焦点小组、学生调查，以及收集/分析学生成功数据，如坚持和毕业。预期结果包括实施部门层面的干预措施，以提高学生在STEM中的成功，并加深对如何支持西班牙裔学生在STEM中取得成功的理解。该项目将直接改善索诺马州立大学每年至少2000名学生的STEM学习体验。此外，它还有可能对实施已公布途径的其他机构产生更广泛的影响。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 Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 1 project aims to increase the participation and success of STEM students, particularly Hispanic students, by transforming STEM department cultures. In this way, the project plans to address the persistent under-representation of Hispanic students in STEM. To accomplish these goals, the project will develop, test, and publish a two-year departmental equity transformation pathway. This pathway will include workshops and exploration of factors that contribute to Hispanic under-representation in STEM, such as stereotype threat and implicit bias. The pathway will introduce faculty to culturally responsive pedagogies. The project will support the collaborative implementation of high impact practices in gateway STEM courses to increase students' sense of belonging in STEM fields. The collaboration will include teamwork and iterative course improvements through Lesson Study, a teacher-led research and observation protocol to improve student learning. The work will include a review of institutional barriers and opportunities to increase STEM students' connections to campus resources. The aims of the project are to develop programming that will assist HSI STEM departments to improve student experiences and outcomes in STEM, and to advance understanding of the effects of department-level work to increase equity and inclusion of all students. The project will support implementation of practices known to reduce experiences of marginalization, especially of Hispanic students, and will examine the impacts of department-wide implementation of culturally responsive pedagogy on students' persistence, success, and sense of belonging in STEM. Research methods include interviews, student and faculty focus groups, student surveys, and collection/analysis of student success data such as persistence and graduation. Anticipated results include implementation of department-level interventions that improve students’ success in STEM and development of a greater understanding about how to support the success of Hispanic students in STEM. The project will directly improve the STEM learning experience of at least 2000 students per year at Sonoma State University. In addition, it has the potential for broader impact at other institutions that implement the published pathway. 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 aims.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.