CAREER: Understanding Community College Transfer Students' STEM Choice, Performance, Persistence, and STEM Baccalaureate Degree Attainment: A Typological Analysis

职业：了解社区大学转学生的 STEM 选择、表现、坚持和 STEM 学士学位获得情况：类型分析

• 批准号: 1652622
• 负责人: Yi Zhang
• 金额: $ 45.23万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1652622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Understanding; Community; College; Transfer

The ECR (Education and Human Resources Core Research) program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that will generate foundational knowledge in the field. As transfer students continue to use community colleges as stepping stones to pursue STEM degrees, it is important to understand the unique challenges these students encounter and the diversity within this important student population. This study will develop a transfer student typology and investigate its relationships with transfer students' STEM choice, performance, persistence, and STEM degree attainment. As one of the first efforts to develop such a typology on an important, yet frequently ignored student population in STEM education, the research will advance knowledge by building better connections between transfer typology and educational outcomes and college experiences. This step will be critical to identifying what significantly different subgroups of transfer students demonstrate different patterns in achieving STEM success. This information will help higher education institutions allocate resources more effectively and efficiently to tailor interventions to each of the transfer subgroups. This approach will provide a more holistic understanding of transfer students' pathways to STEM success and nuanced differences between each of the transfer subpopulations. Data will be collected through a mixed-method approach to understand the extent to which community college transfer students vary based on their beliefs, goals, and behaviors. Quantitative methods will be used to identify the specific typology groups existing in community college transfer students. The project will then investigate the relationships between transfer typology reference groups and students' STEM choice, performance, persistence, and completion of STEM baccalaureate degrees. A series of in-depth qualitative interviews with students in each reference group will provide a deeper understanding of unique challenges that transfer students experience. The interviews will also uncover how these students navigate their ways to college and STEM education, what strategies they have applied, and what policies and practices should be developed to best facilitate transfers of each group to achieve academic success. Outcomes from this research study will offer researchers, faculty members, administrators, and policymakers in higher education meaningful insights into the diversity and complexity of the transfer student population. More importantly, this project takes a step further to build connections between the transfer typology and educational outcomes and college experiences for each of the transfer reference groups, and thus it can lead to development and implication of tailored support for transfer students. The findings can also suggest effective intervention and prevention programs that help transfer students avoid taking missteps and wrong turns as they progress to obtaining baccalaureate degrees in STEM fields of study, transforming access into success for transfer students.

ECR（教育和人力资源核心研究）计划强调基础 STEM 教育研究，这些研究将产生该领域的基础知识。随着转学生继续利用社区大学作为攻读 STEM 学位的垫脚石，了解这些学生遇到的独特挑战以及这一重要学生群体的多样性非常重要。本研究将建立转学生类型学，并调查其与转学生的 STEM 选择、表现、坚持和获得 STEM 学位的关系。作为针对 STEM 教育中重要但经常被忽视的学生群体开发此类类型学的首批努力之一，该研究将通过在转学类型学与教育成果和大学经历之间建立​​更好的联系来促进知识的发展。这一步骤对于确定转学生中哪些显着不同的子群体在实现 STEM 成功方面表现出不同的模式至关重要。这些信息将帮助高等教育机构更有效地分配资源，为每个转学亚组制定干预措施。这种方法将使转学生更全面地了解 STEM 成功之路以及每个转学生群体之间的细微差别。将通过混合方法收集数据，以了解社区大学转学生根据他们的信仰、目标和行为而变化的程度。将使用定量方法来识别社区大学转学生中存在的特定类型群体。然后，该项目将调查转学类型参考群体与学生的 STEM 选择、表现、坚持和完成 STEM 学士学位之间的关系。对每个参考组的学生进行一系列深入的定性访谈，将使学生更深入地了解转学生所经历的独特挑战。访谈还将揭示这些学生如何进入大学和 STEM 教育、他们应用了哪些策略，以及应该制定哪些政策和实践来最好地促进每个群体的转学以取得学术成功。这项研究的结果将为高等教育领域的研究人员、教职人员、管理人员和政策制定者提供关于转学生群体的多样性和复杂性的有意义的见解。更重要的是，该项目进一步在每个转学参考群体的转学类型与教育成果和大学经历之间建立​​联系，从而为转学生提供量身定制的支持。研究结果还可以提出有效的干预和预防计划，帮助转学生在获得 STEM 学习领域的学士学位时避免犯下错误和错误，从而将转学生的机会转化为成功。

项目成果

Early Academic Momentum: Factors Contributing to Community College Transfer Students’ STEM Degree Attainment

早期学术动力：影响社区大学转学生获得 STEM 学位的因素

• DOI: 10.1177/1521025119881130
• 发表时间: 2019-10-10
• 期刊: Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice
• 作者: Y. Zhang

STEM Persisters, Switchers, and Leavers: Factors Associated with 6-Year Degree Attainment for STEM Aspiring Community College Transfer Students

STEM 坚持者、转学者和离开者：与 STEM 有抱负的社区大学转学生获得 6 年学位相关的因素

• DOI: 10.1080/10668926.2021.1906784
• 发表时间: 2021-04
• 期刊: Community College Journal of Research and Practice
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Zhang; Yi Leaf
• 通讯作者: Yi Leaf