HSI Institutional Transformation Project: STEM Undergraduate Education through a Hispanic Student Success Framework

在“改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）”的支持下，本项目旨在通过循证教学方法，结合增强的学生同伴指导和研究生和教师的专业发展，开发一个专注于教学法发展的HSI学生成功服务框架，旨在改善学生的学习，学生的归属感和整体成功。需要对STEM学科给予更多关注，通过开展一系列课程和指导改革来提高学生的毕业率和保留率，这些改革将导致支持西班牙裔学生的系统性变化。拟议的项目建立在我们致力于增加STEM劳动力多样性的基础上，特别是西班牙裔学生。该计划是一种综合方法，旨在增加从UTSA工程学院和综合设计与科学学院毕业的未被充分代表的少数民族本科生人数。UTSA有机会利用我们第一代和西班牙裔学生的经验，并将这些经验作为资源，这可能会导致STEM领域的创新和发现企业。预计该计划将通过使用对服务的新理解来发展组织变革，从而为HSI和非HSI机构的西班牙裔学生提供最好的服务，从而使STEM教育受益。该项目将成功完成以下任务：1)HSI学生服务框架的开发；2)以计算素养为重点的工程课程教学发展，包括研究生和教师的专业发展；3)回顾当前本科生的政策、实践和结构，重点关注多样性、公平性和包容性；4)发展和后续扩展同伴指导计划和助教教学学院。我们在STEM和教育教师之间的创新跨学科合作伙伴关系将通过(1)开发新的教学方法和(2)通过循证教学方法和STEM教师指导实施以计算素养为重点的相关课程改革，提高学生的学习和自我效能感。HSI学生服务框架将允许通过课程变更、政策审查、扩大同伴指导和其他活动进行制度变革。采用所提出的多方面方法的预期结果是：1)提高学生的留校率、毕业率和坚持率；2)提高学生的自我效能感和归属感；3)让教师有机会开发创新的、以公平为中心的循证最佳实践教学方法，以增强学生的学习和课堂公平；4)为学生提供在专业领域取得成功的市场技能。研究结果将通过网站、会议报告和同行评议出版物以及大学讲习班进行传播。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 3 ITP aims to develop an HSI Student Success Servingness Framework that focuses on pedagogy development, through evidence-based teaching approaches, combined with enhanced student peer mentoring and professional development of graduate students and faculty with the aim of improving student learning, student sense of belongingness and overall success. Additional attention is needed in STEM disciplines to improve graduation and retention rates of students by undertaking a range of curricular and mentoring reforms which will result in systemic changes that support Hispanic students. The proposed project builds on our dedication to increasing diversity in the STEM workforce particularly Hispanic students. This plan is an integrated approach to increase the number of undergraduate underrepresented minorities who graduate from the UTSA Colleges of Engineering and Integrated Design and Sciences. The opportunity for UTSA to harness the assets of our first generation and Hispanic students’ experiences and employ these experiences as resources could lead to innovation and discovery enterprises in STEM. It is expected that the program will benefit STEM education by using the new understandings of servingness to develop organizational change that best serves Hispanic students at HSI and non-HSI institutions.The project will successfully complete the following tasks: 1) Development of an HSI Student Servingness Framework; 2) Pedagogical development of engineering courses focused on Computational Literacy which includes professional development of graduate students and faculty; 3) Review of current policies, practices, and structures for undergraduate students with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion and 4) Development and subsequent expansion of Peer Mentoring Program and TA Teaching Academy. Our innovative cross-disciplinary partnership between STEM and Education faculty will improve student learning and self-efficacy by (1) developing new methods of instruction and (2) implementing associated curricular changes focused on computational literacy through evidence-based teaching approaches and STEM faculty coaching. The HSI Student Servingness Framework will allow for institutional change through curriculum changes, policy review, and expanding peer mentoring and other activities. Expected outcomes using the proposed multi-faceted approach are 1) increase the retention, graduation and persistence rates of the students; 2) improve the students’ self-efficacy and sense of belongingness; 3) give faculty opportunities to develop innovative, equity-centered evidence-based best practice teaching approaches that enhance student learning and equity in the classroom; and 4) provide students with marketable skills to be successful in the professional world. The results will be disseminated through a website, conference presentations and peer reviewed publications, and university workshops. 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.