Mathematics Persistence through Inquiry and Equity: Redeveloping Gateway Mathematics in a Two-year HSI to Promote Success in STEM

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这个Track 1项目将研究旨在提高两年制HSI学生在入门数学方面的成功的主要改革努力，并开发基于探究和公平驱动的干预措施，以支持STEM的成就。入门数学课程是大多数打算攻读STEM专业的学生选择的第一门转学级别的数学课程。传统上，这些课程的失败率很高，对于来自历史上服务不足的社区的STEM学生来说，这是一个常见的障碍。此外，这些课程正在发生转变，因为州法律正在影响与学生安置相关的政策。通过这个项目，一个由两年制院校和四年制院校组成的合作团队将分析学生成功的趋势，为Gateway数学课程的教师制定基于课堂的干预措施和专业发展，研究干预措施的影响，并审查变革努力的可持续性。这项工作将在当地产生影响，通过改造门户数学课程，在该项目的整个生命周期内招收多达10,000名学生。通过改进Gateway数学课程，该项目将为扩大STEM专业和职业参与的社会效益做出贡献。这一努力还将在为期两年的HSIS中产生关于STEM部门机构变化的一般性知识，并将通过研究出版物、讲习班、网络改进社区和专业发展会议传播结果。项目将分三个阶段进行。在第一阶段，研究人员将收集和分析机构和课堂层面的数据，为变革努力提供信息。分析将使用描述性和推断性统计、案例研究分析，并通过探究性学习和体制变革框架提供信息。在第二阶段，研究人员将进行设计研究和专业发展周期，以建立数学教师利用以探究和公平为导向的教学实践的能力，以扩大学生在门户数学课程中的成功。在第三阶段，研究团队将逐步减少积极干预，并研究第二阶段实施的变化的可持续性。这项工作的结果将成为两年制高等专科学校门户STEM课程改革和重新设计的典范。这些成果将通过研究出版物、讲习班、网络改进社区和专业发展会议传播。该项目将通过改善两年制学校拉丁裔学生的STEM教育，以及更广泛地通过我们的传播努力，为社会做出有益的贡献。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 will study the major reform efforts designed to improve student success in gateway mathematics at a two-year HSI and develop inquiry-based and equity-driven interventions to support STEM achievement. Gateway mathematics courses are the first transfer-level mathematics course taken by most students intending to pursue a STEM major. These courses traditionally have a high failure rate, and are a common barrier for STEM-intending students from historically underserved communities. In addition, these courses are undergoing a shift as state law is impacting policies related to student placement. With this project, a collaborative team from a two-year institution and a four-year institution will analyze trends in student success, develop classroom-based interventions and professional development for instructors of gateway mathematics courses, study the impacts of the interventions, and examine the sustainability of change efforts. This work will have an impact locally by transforming gateway mathematics courses enrolling up to 10,000 students across the life of the project. By improving gateway mathematics courses, this project will contribute to the societal benefit of broadening participation in STEM majors and careers. This effort will also result in generalizable knowledge about institutional change in STEM departments at two-year HSIs, and the results will be disseminated through research publications, workshops, network improvement communities, and professional development conferences.The project will proceed in three phases. In Phase 1 the researchers will collect and analyze institutional and classroom-level data to inform a change effort. Analyses will use descriptive and inferential statistics, case study analysis, and be informed by inquiry learning and institutional change frameworks. In Phase 2, the researchers will engage in cycles of design research and professional development to build the capacity of mathematics instructors to leverage inquiry- and equity-oriented teaching practices in order to expand student success in gateway mathematics courses. In Phase 3, the research team will gradually reduce the active intervention, and study the sustainability of the changes enacted in Phase 2. The results of this work will be a model for the reform and redesign of gateway STEM courses in two-year HSIs. These results will be disseminated through research publications, workshops, network improvement communities, and professional development conferences. This project will make a beneficial contribution to society by improving the STEM education of Latinx students at a two-year institution, and more broadly through our dissemination efforts. 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.