Achievement in STEM through a Program of Immersive Research Experiences and Support

通过沉浸式研究体验和支持计划在 STEM 领域取得成就

• 批准号: 1833931
• 负责人: Robert Beer
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Fordham 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=1833931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Achievement; STEM; through; Program; Immersive

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH). This project will respond to the urgent national need for a talented and diverse STEM workforce by increasing the persistence and graduation rates of students who enter college with an interest in STEM. Over the next five years, this project will directly support 60 to 100 academically-talented FCRH students. (The number of Scholars that can be supported depends on the level of the Scholars' financial need.) By completing a robust research plan, this project should increase understanding about which interventions best support student success, for whom they work, and under what circumstances are they most effective. The investigators will share their findings broadly to encourage others to learn from the results obtained through this research project. This project will enroll five cohorts of 12-20 academically-talented incoming FCRH first-year STEM majors. Students who are selected will have significant financial need and include individuals from traditionally under-represented backgrounds in STEM, including women, under-represented minorities, students with disabilities, students who are the first in their families to go to college, and students from educationally-disadvantaged backgrounds. During their first year, these students will be awarded scholarships of up to $10,000 to reduce their otherwise unmet financial need. In addition, they will participate in a coordinated offering of three high-impact practices designed to support their success in STEM: 1) A pre-enrollment summer academic and career-focused orientation program; 2) A year-long Introduction to Research course that will engage students in original research; and 3) A full-time summer research internship. After the first year, continuing scholarship recipients will engage in a fourth high-impact practice by serving as peer mentors for the remainder of their undergraduate studies and attending the program's community-building events. Few, if any, existing studies have investigated the impact of a multi-phasic, coordinated program on promoting STEM success. The project team will fill this gap by conducting a well-matched, quantitative/qualitative longitudinal analysis of attitudes that predispose students for STEM success, including self-efficacy, self-concept, science learner identity, and STEM career aspirations. This study will also examine academic metrics of success, including course grades, overall grade point average, and progress toward degree. In addition, the study will measure social belonging to assess the impact of this S-STEM program on students' STEM identity. By supporting diverse cohorts of students to graduation, this project will help to strengthen our nation's STEM workforce and, thus, enhance its competitiveness and preeminence in STEM fields. The knowledge gained from this project will inform the Fordham community and will be disseminated widely within the STEM education research community. The results are expected to be generalizable to other institutions that seek to surmount barriers to undergraduate student success in STEM.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.

借助NSF科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划的NSF奖学金，该项目将支持在Rose Hill（FCRH）的福特汉姆学院（Fordham College）证明财务需求的高分，低收入学生。 该项目将通过提高对STEM感兴趣的大学的持久性和毕业率来应对对有才华和多样化的STEM劳动力的紧急国家需求。 在接下来的五年中，该项目将直接支持60至100个具有学术意义的FCRH学生。 （可以支持的学者数量取决于学者的财务需求水平。）通过完成强大的研究计划，该项目应加深对哪些干预措施最能支持学生成功，为他们服务以及在什么情况下最有效的理解。调查人员将广泛分享他们的发现，以鼓励其他人从该研究项目获得的结果中学习。该项目将招募五个队列，分别为12-20个学术上有才华的FCRH第一年STEM专业。被选中的学生将有很大的经济需求，并包括来自传统上代表性不足的STEM背景的个人，包括妇女，代表性不足的少数群体，残疾学生，是家庭中第一个上大学的学生以及来自教育范围内的背景的学生。在第一年，这些学生将获得最高10,000美元的奖学金，以减少他们原本未满足的财务需求。此外，他们还将参加三种旨在支持其在STEM中成功的高影响力实践的协调产品：1）注册前的夏季学术和以职业为中心的方向计划； 2）为期一年的研究课程介绍，该课程将吸引学生进行原始研究； 3）全职夏季研究实习。第一年之后，持续的奖学金获得者将通过担任其余的本科学习并参加该计划的社区建设活动，从事第四次高影响力实践。现有研究很少（如果有的话）研究了多重，协调计划对促进STEM成功的影响。项目团队将通过对态度进行良好匹配，定量/定性的纵向分析来填补这一空白，这些态度使学生倾向于STEM成功，包括自我效能感，自我概念，科学学习者的身份和STEM职业志向。这项研究还将研究成功的学术指标，包括课程等级，平均总成绩以及攻读学位的进步。此外，该研究将衡量社会属于评估该S-STEM计划对学生STEM身份的影响的社会。通过支持各种学生毕业，该项目将有助于加强我们国家的STEM劳动力，从而增强其在STEM领域的竞争力和优势。从该项目中获得的知识将为福特汉姆社区提供信息，并将在STEM教育研究社区中广泛传播。预计该结果可以推广到其他机构，这些机构试图克服STEM的本科生成功障碍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为值得通过评估。