HSI Pilot Project: Improving Online STEM Education for Undergraduate Students at HSIs

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，这个第一轨道试点项目旨在研究加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校多个学科的在线教育。在线教育为学生提供了灵活性和机会，否则他们可能难以参与传统的面对面的大学体验。与此同时，由于跨学科的需求和实践的多样性，理解和加强在线STEM教育可能是一项挑战。在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，了解有效在线教育的必要性被放大了，这需要整个机构迅速转向在线课程。该项目将探索四个学科的在线教学：生物学、计算机科学与工程、心理学和信息决策科学，并将调查和比较在HSI环境中对学生产生积极影响的具体实践。该项目的首要目标是关注如何最好地为广泛和多样化的在线学习者提供服务。在线教学实践的四个方面将被调查：讲座属性、学生实践策略、在线实验室和测试实践。此外，该项目将关注传统上在STEM中代表性不足的群体、低收入群体、第一代大学生和其他群体的学生的关键重叠问题。该项目的一个关键目标是了解诸如网络访问减少、生活条件以及对结构和社区意识的偏好等问题如何影响学生在线课程的成绩。项目研究将使用调查、焦点小组和来自在线课堂的数据来分析四个重点学科的实践。传播将侧重于分享有希望的和潜在有害的教育实践（作为警告），以及有希望改善在线教学实践中每个目标学科或领域的学习的具体方法。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM参与，并在HSI进行能力建设。考虑到hsi的多样化性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区转型，并促进基础研究(i)关于参与式学生学习，（ii）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM参与，以及（iii）提高我们对如何在hsi建立机构能力的理解，这些都是由该计划支持的。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 1 pilot project aims to study online education across several disciplines at California State University, San Bernardino. Online education provides flexibility and access for students that may otherwise struggle to engage in a traditional in-person college experience. At the same time, understanding and strengthening online STEM education can be a challenge due to the variety of needs and practices across disciplines. The need to understand effective online education was magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which necessitated rapid, whole-institution moves to online courses. This project will explore online teaching and learning in four disciplines: biology, computer science and engineering, psychology, and information decision sciences, and will investigate and compare practices that specifically show potential to positively impact students in an HSI setting. An overarching goal of the project is to focus on how best to serve a broad and diverse population of online learners. Four areas of online teaching practice will be investigated: lecture attributes, student practice strategies, online labs, and testing practices. In addition, the project will look at key, overlapping issues for students from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM, low-income individuals, first-generation college students, and other groups. A key aim of the project is to understand how issues such as reduced online access, living conditions, and preference for structure and sense of community might impact student outcomes in online courses. Project research will use surveys, focus groups, and data from online classrooms to analyze practices in each of the four focal disciplines. Dissemination will focus on sharing both promising and potentially harmful educational practices (as cautions), as well as specific approaches that show promise to improve learning in each of the targeted disciplines or areas of online teaching practice. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs are supported by this program.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.