Emerging STEM Scholars

新兴 STEM 学者

• 批准号: 1643874
• 负责人: Eric Borguet
• 金额: $ 99.96万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643874&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emerging; STEM; Scholars

The "Emerging STEM Scholars" program at Temple University will address STEM retention and success by providing direct academic support for four years to 48 - 60 academically talented and economically disadvantaged students majoring in biology, biochemistry, or chemistry. Students will be enrolled in the program during their freshman year, when they are most likely to encounter academic difficulties and change majors. The program will utilize existing academic support structures and will connect students with specific program content in Temple's first science learning community. A three tiered mentoring program (undergraduate peers, graduate students, and faculty) will provide support to scholars over their academic career from entry into the institution to graduation. Scholars will be given access to industry scientists and science career information that will complement academic support and research opportunities.The project will be based on Tinto's theory of student retention emphasizing both structural supports and content-based and pedagogical supports. Data will be collected to determine what "works" the best, with what type of student, and when. Research conducted by this project will be both cross-sectional and longitudinal, and will be designed to test the individual and cumulative contributions of the program elements. The study will also analyze any effect size decay that occurs over time. Four data sources will provide an academic "map" that will be used to identify patterns that are needed to maintain successful progress to an on-time four-year degree. The resulting knowledge will be used as the basis for institutional transformation at Temple and other universities.

坦普尔大学（Temple University）的“新兴STEM学者”计划将通过在生物学，生物化学或化学领域专业的学生提供四年的直接学术支持至48-60名学术才华和经济弱势的学生，以解决STEM保留和成功。 学生将在大一新生中加入该计划，当时他们最有可能遇到学术困难和变更专业。 该计划将利用现有的学术支持结构，并将学生与Temple第一个科学学习社区中的特定计划内容联系起来。 一个三层指导计划（本科生，研究生和教职员工）将为学者提供从学术生涯的支持，从进入机构到毕业。 学者将获得对行业科学家和科学职业信息的访问，这些信息将补充学术支持和研究机会。该项目将基于Tinto的学生保留理论，强调结构支持以及基于内容的基于内容和教学支持。将收集数据，以确定哪种“有效”，哪种类型的学生以及何时。 该项目进行的研究将既是横断面和纵向，又将旨在测试程序元素的个体和累积贡献。 该研究还将分析随着时间的流逝而发生的任何效应大小衰减。 四个数据源将提供一个学术上的“地图”，该数据将用于识别将成功进步到准时四年制学位所需的模式。 由此产生的知识将被用作寺庙和其他大学制度转型的基础。