Collaborative Research: Scaling the Early Research Scholars Program

合作研究：扩大早期研究学者计划

• 批准号: 1821449
• 负责人: James Landay
• 金额: $ 45.24万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Scaling; Early; Scholars

Enrollment in computer science (CS) programs across the nation is higher than ever, yet two critical problems persist. First, despite these high enrollments, relatively few U.S. students are continuing on to graduate school. Maintaining and improving the health of the domestic Ph.D. pipeline is a concern of universities, companies, and government agencies. Second, the population of students pursuing CS degrees is not representative of the diversity of people in the U.S., with women and other groups persistently underrepresented. The Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) aims to address issues of increasing the Ph.D. pipeline and broadening participation in computer science fields. ERSP is an academic-year, team-based research apprenticeship program that places special emphasis on mentoring women and underrepresented groups in the second year of the CS major. ERSP's mentoring framework includes the research mentor and the ERSP central mentoring team, providing multifaceted support for each student. In addition, it is structured to engage a large number of early CS students in a productive, positive CS research experience without imposing undue work on individual research advisors. By engaging students in early research, ERSP aims to increase their retention at the undergraduate level and recruitment into graduate programs. The project has been running successfully at University of California San Diego for four years. This project will expand ERSP to other universities, including Stanford University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The project will also study the outcomes of ERSP on the student and faculty participants at all institutions. This project has two parts: expansion of ERSP and evaluation of the impact of ERSP on participants. Initially, ERSP will be implemented at three research-intensive schools with a range of undergraduate admission criteria. Each implementation will be tailored to the specific context of the institution, providing a range of implementation structures as models for how ERSP might be successfully implemented. After this initial expansion phase, the project plans to partner with two additional schools to explore how ERSP could be implemented at less research-intensive universities (e.g., masters institutions). The second part of this project is research on the long-term impact of ERSP on student participants. Specifically, the project seeks to assess whether ERSP promotes the following among participants: a sense of connection with the computing community, short-term and long-term engagement in research, CS knowledge, and persistence in computing. Evaluators at the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline will use their national survey infrastructure to collect experiential data from ERSP students vs. non-ERSP students, as the students progress through college and after they leave college. These evaluators will also conduct interviews with ERSP program leaders, faculty mentors, and students, and control faculty and students who are not participating in ERSP. These interviews will supplement the survey data, and help the ERSP team better understand ERSP impact, as well as identify new challenges and opportunities for program improvement.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.

全国范围内计算机科学 (CS) 项目的入学率比以往任何时候都高，但仍然存在两个关键问题。 首先，尽管入学率很高，但继续读研究生的美国学生相对较少。 维护和改善国内博士生的健康管道是大学、公司和政府机构关注的问题。其次，攻读计算机科学学位的学生人数并不能代表美国人口的多样性，女性和其他群体的代表性一直不足。 早期研究学者计划（ERSP）旨在解决增加博士生数量的问题。管道和扩大计算机科学领域的参与。 ERSP 是一个学年、以团队为基础的研究学徒计划，特别强调在计算机科学专业第二年对女性和代表性不足的群体进行指导。 ERSP的导师框架包括研究导师和ERSP中央导师团队，为每个学生提供多方面的支持。 此外，它的结构是为了让大量早期计算机科学学生参与富有成效的、积极的计算机科学研究体验，而不会给个人研究顾问带来过多的工作。 通过让学生参与早期研究，ERSP 旨在提高他们在本科阶段的保留率和研究生项目的录取率。 该项目已在加州大学圣地亚哥分校成功运行四年。 该项目将把 ERSP 扩展到其他大学，包括斯坦福大学、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校和伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校。 该项目还将研究 ERSP 对所有机构的学生和教师参与者的结果。 该项目分为两部分：ERSP 的扩展和 ERSP 对参与者影响的评估。 最初，ERSP 将在三所研究密集型学校实施，并具有一系列本科入学标准。 每个实施都将根据机构的具体情况进行定制，提供一系列实施结构作为如何成功实施 ERSP 的模型。 在最初的扩展阶段之后，该项目计划与另外两所学校合作，探索如何在研究密集程度较低的大学（例如硕士院校）实施 ERSP。 该项目的第二部分是研究 ERSP 对学生参与者的长期影响。 具体来说，该项目旨在评估 ERSP 是否促进了参与者的以下方面：与计算社区的联系感、短期和长期的研究参与、计算机科学知识以及对计算的坚持。研究管道评估中心的评估人员将利用其全国调查基础设施，收集 ERSP 学生与非 ERSP 学生在大学学习过程中以及离开大学后的经验数据。 这些评估人员还将对 ERSP 项目负责人、教师导师和学生进行访谈，并对未参与 ERSP 的教师和学生进行控制。 这些访谈将补充调查数据，并帮助 ERSP 团队更好地了解 ERSP 影响，并确定项目改进的新挑战和机遇。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进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。