H.S.I. Institutional Transformation Project: NMSU-MAS, Mejorando las Aulas en STEM/Improving STEM Classrooms

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，该Track 3项目旨在通过专注于公平和包容性教学实践的教师专业发展，提高不同学生群体的成功。这将增加完成STEM学位并准备成功进入劳动力大军或接受高级培训的西班牙裔、第一代和低收入学生的数量。这一点很重要，因为它将有助于培养一支更多样化、更具创新性和生产力的STEM劳动力队伍，并为未来几代学生树立榜样。这个项目将调查一种特定的教师专业发展模式对教师教学的影响，以及多样化的STEM学生群体的成功，包括西班牙裔和在一家土地赠与拉美裔服务机构的第一代学生。本项目的结果将有助于理解(I)教师如何根据院校公平、多样性和包容性(EID)和研究优先事项做出教学策略的决策；(Ii)专注于积极的、与文化相关的和受欢迎的实践的教师专业发展如何影响教师及其教学；(Iii)教师参与积极的、与文化相关的和受欢迎的实践如何影响多样化的STEM学生群体的成功。通过监测项目活动对西班牙裔、第一代和/或低收入学生的成功衡量标准的影响，该项目将使研究人员能够确定在HSI和土地赠款机构的背景下，具体干预措施对学生产生预期影响的程度。这项工作有可能对进入和加强STEM劳动力的学生的数量和多样性产生重大影响。这将创建一个可推广和可移植的教师专业发展和STEM学生成功的模式，将影响我们学校以外的教师和学生。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 3 project aims to enhance the success of a diverse population of students through faculty professional development focused on equitable and inclusive teaching practices. This will increase the number of Hispanic, first-generation, and low-income students who complete STEM degrees and are prepared to successfully enter the workforce or pursue advanced training. This is important as it will contribute to a more diverse, and therefore more innovative and productive, STEM workforce and develop role models for future generations of students. This project will investigate the impact of a specific model of faculty professional development on faculty teaching and the success of a diverse STEM student population, including Hispanic and first-generation students at a land-grant Hispanic-Serving Institution. The results of this project will contribute to the understanding of (i) How faculty make decisions about teaching strategies, particularly in light of institutional equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EID) and research priorities (ii) How faculty professional development focusing on active, culturally-relevant and welcoming practices impacts faculty and their teaching and (iii) How faculty engagement with active, culturally-relevant and welcoming practices impacts the success of a diverse STEM student population. By monitoring the impact of project activities on measures of success of students who are Hispanic, first-generation and/or low income, the project will enable the researchers to determine the extent to which specific interventions have the intended impact on students in the context of an HSI and land grant institution. This work has the potential to make substantial impacts on the number and diversity of students entering and strengthening the STEM workforce. This will create a generalizable and transferable model of faculty professional development and STEM student success that will impact faculty and students beyond our institution. 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.