Conference: Measuring the Success of Institutional Efforts at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），本次会议旨在制定和测试一系列措施，以评估HSI如何在努力为多样化的学生提供服务并改善STEM学习方面取得成功。虽然许多指标评估个别学生的保留和毕业情况，但在如何衡量改善学生学习和毕业率所需的系统性变化方面，共识较少。通过汇集来自HSIs和学者的从业人员共同制定HSIs的制度变革措施，我们希望制定和测试一系列措施，以支持不同HSIs的工作，包括社区学院，私立本科院校，和研究-该项目的具体目标是实施一个服务框架，以概念化必要的体制变革，在HSIs的不同学生群体的教育程度。会议将专门制定和测试的变化措施：研究开发和成功;教师参与STEM课程变化和学生;教师成功措施; STEM本科生成功措施;社区参与;和多元文化参与和认可。我们预计，确定和使用变革措施将有助于大学提高学生在HSIs获得STEM学位的可能性。这项工作将通过参加会议，出版物和在美国各地的HSI的不同群体中使用这些措施来广泛传播。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育和建立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。该奖项反映了NSF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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference aims to develop and test a series of measures to assess how HSIs achieve success in their efforts to serve their diverse students and improve STEM learning. While many indicators assess individual student retention and graduation, there is less consensus on how to measure the systemic changes needed to improve student learning and graduation rates. By bringing together practitioners from HSIs and scholars to co-develop measures of institutional change at HSIs, we expect to develop and test a series of measures to support work at a diverse set of HSIs, including community colleges, Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, and research-intensive universities.The specific aims of the project are to operationalize a framework for servingness developed to conceptualize institutional changes necessary to improve educational attainment for the diverse student population at HSIs. The conference will specifically develop and test measures of change for: research development and success; faculty engagement with STEM curricular change and students; faculty success measures; STEM undergraduate student success measures; community engagement; and diverse cultural engagement and recognition. We expect that the identification and use of change measures will assist universities in improving the likelihood of student STEM degree attainment at HSIs. The work will be disseminated broadly through conference participation, publications, and the use of the measures at a diverse group of HSIs around the U.S. 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.