Twenty-eighth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

This poster will present STEM materials developed for integration into selected undergraduate courses at California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) and Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC), and other Western States universities, and community and Tribal colleges which are based in the cultural traditions of Indigenous American Peoples. Building on the research team’s efforts from an award granted by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the poster demonstrates how the researchers have been: 1. developing and enhancing materials (both print and instructional technology-augmented lessons) based in Hispanic American Indian traditions, STEM content and other intellectual fields, 2. continuing and extending the integration of these materials into a variety of existing courses at the CSUF, TMCC and other sites, 3. fostering faculty expertise in the materials’ STEM content, methods and cultural bases through classroom-ready lessons and established, previously utilized instructor-training models, 4. assessing the materials’ effects on student attitude and dispositions toward mathematics, 5. conducting research in the Undergraduate STEM Education affective domain and adding to that knowledge base, and 6. making these materials available for wider dissemination to other universities, and Tribal and community colleges–and to all interested participants of this international conference.