ACE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT – Toward Equity in STEM (ProjecTEST): Linking Faculty and Student Perceptions of Success Through Novel, Continuous, Evidence-based Assessment

传统黑人学院和大学的实施项目-本科计划（HBCU-UP）为设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。杰克逊州立大学（JSU）的这个实施项目提供了一种创新的方法来扩大STEM学生的成果。该项目将通过对实践和成果的创新评估，探索STEM教师和学生对人才和STEM成功潜力的看法之间的联系。该项目的重点是将基于证据的教学和学习策略与学生的成果和经验联系起来，以帮助评估和改进化学、物理和大气科学系的课程活动。JSU的project test旨在通过建立专业发展机会和提供新的评估工具来改善教师对教学法和指导策略的实施，这些工具可以扩展教师对影响学生对STEM领域兴趣和参与的种族、文化、社会和历史因素的了解。师生团队共同制定评估指标，以检查学生在课程活动中的体验。该项目的目标是改善对新颖、精细的评估工具的使用，提高STEM学生的学习成果、自我效能感和归属感，提供支持STEM劳动力技能发展的研究机会，并将教师和学生参与的模式传播给更广泛的受众。一个名为Cave Scientia的探索性研究项目将研究入学和安置标准化评估之间的潜在联系，以及这些评估如何影响教师对自己在STEM中的地位和有效性的看法，以及它们如何影响学生对自己在STEM学科中贡献和进步潜力的看法。该项目有望在该机构和更大的HBCU社区产生更广泛的影响。该项目由正在进行的评价以及内部和外部咨询委员会指导和提供信息。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。

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provide support to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at Jackson State University (JSU) provides an innovative approach to broaden outcomes for STEM students. The project will explore the links between STEM faculty and student perceptions of talent and potential for STEM success through innovative assessment of practices and outcomes. The project focuses on linking evidence-based teaching and learning strategies with student outcomes and experiences to help assess and refine course activities in the Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Atmospheric Sciences.JSU’s ProjecTEST is designed to improve faculty implementation of pedagogy and mentoring strategies by establishing professional development opportunities and providing access to new assessment tools that extend faculty knowledge of race, culture, social, and historical factors that impact student interest and engagement in STEM fields. Faculty-student teams work together on assessment metrics to examine student experiences with course activities. The goal of the project is to improve the use of novel, fine-grained assessment tools, increase STEM learning outcomes, self-efficacy, and sense of belonging among STEM students, offer research opportunities that support the development of STEM workforce skills, and disseminate models of faculty and student engagement to a broader audience. An exploratory research project called Cave Scientia will examine the potential links between standardized assessments in admissions and placement and how those assessments impact faculty perceptions of their own standing and effectiveness in STEM and how they impact student perceptions of their potential to contribute and advance within a STEM discipline. This project promises to have wide-reaching broader impacts at the institution and larger HBCU community. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation, as well as by internal and external advisory committees.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.