Collaborative Research: Research: Characterizing Engineering Student Mental Wellness and Its Role in Predicting Attrition

合作研究：研究：工科学生心理健康特征及其在预测减员中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
1929484
负责人：
Kacey Beddoes
金额：
$ 17.4万
依托单位：
San Jose State University Foundation
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-08-01 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929484&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Characterizing Engineering Student

项目摘要

Both the need for increasing retention rates among engineers, and the correlation between mental wellness and general student success are well documented. However, there has been no comprehensive study exploring the relationships between mental wellness and engineering student success or retention. This studyss contribution is significant because analyzing how mental wellness issues affect students? persistence in engineering and cataloguing a list of mental wellness resources offered by engineering departments allows programs to identify and support at-risk students, increasing their ability to successfully retain and graduate a diverse class of engineers. The outcomes of this project are: 1) characterizations of mental wellness of various engineering student populations, including how prevalence of conditions changes throughout the program and any inequities across demographic groups; 2) characterizations of the relationships between Outcome 1 and intention to persist in engineering; 3) characterization of students? awareness of mental wellness resources available to them; 4) a list of needs or gaps in mental wellness resources for engineering students; 5) a model of engineering student success and retention that accounts for mental wellness, and 6) stakeholder-specific materials and trainings. The goal of this project is to study how student mental wellness factors into persistence for engineering students from all backgrounds. The specific research aims are: 1) to characterize the mental wellness of engineering students and its relationship to persistence, and 2) to characterize institutional practices and services related to mental wellness. The first aim is being accomplished through a mixed-methods, longitudinal study consisting of surveys and interviews with engineering students at both large research-oriented and smaller teaching-oriented engineering schools, and Minority Serving Institutions around the country. The survey is a compilation of validated instruments, and qualitative interviews will be used to explore in-depth themes that emerge from the survey. The second research aim is being accomplished through a survey with participating institutions to collect information on how and to what extent mental wellness resources and materials are incorporated into the engineering program. The education aim is to develop research-based, actionable resources for administrators, counselors, faculty, advisors, and students. This is being accomplished through the development of materials and interactive trainings disseminated to different groups of stakeholders. Each set of materials or trainings targets a specific group of stakeholders and is designed with guidance from mental health professionals. This study is significant because it is the first in-depth study of the relationship between mental wellness and retention specifically for engineering students. Educational materials created enhance intellectual infrastructure locally and nationally by providing the first research-based interventions of this kind.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.

有充分记录在工程师中提高保留率的需求以及心理健康与普通学生成功之间的相关性。但是，尚无全面的研究探讨心理健康与工程学生成功或保留之间的关系。这是因为分析心理健康问题如何影响学生，这是重要的？工程和分类工程部门提供的精神健康资源清单的持久性使计划能够识别和支持高危学生，从而增加了他们成功保留和毕业的各种工程师的能力。该项目的结果是：1）各种工程学生人群的心理健康的特征，包括整个计划中的状况的普遍性以及人群群体之间的任何不平等程度如何变化； 2）表征结果1与持续工程意图之间的关系； 3）学生的表征？对他们的心理健康资源的认识； 4）工程专业学生的精神健康资源的需求或差距列表； 5）工程学学生的成功和保留模型，占心理健康的责任，6）利益相关者特定的材料和培训。该项目的目的是研究学生的心理健康如何成为来自各个背景的工程学生的持久性。具体研究的目的是：1）表征工程专业学生的心理健康及其与持久性的关系，以及2）表征与心理健康相关的机构实践和服务。第一个目的是通过混合方法，纵向研究来实现，该研究包括调查和面向大型研究和较小的面向教学的工程学校的工程学生的访谈，以及全国各地的少数派服务机构。该调查是对经过验证的工具的汇编，定性访谈将用于探索从调查中出现的深入主题。第二个研究目标是通过与参与机构进行的调查来实现的，以收集有关如何以及在何种程度上将心理健康资源和材料纳入工程计划的信息。教育目的是为管理员，辅导员，教职员工，顾问和学生开发基于研究的，可行的资源。这是通过开发材料和交互式培训来实现的，这些培训和互动培训传播给了不同的利益相关者群体。每组材料或培训都针对特定的利益相关者组，并在精神卫生专业人员的指导下设计。这项研究很重要，因为它是专门针对工程专业学生的心理健康与保留之间关系的深入研究。教育材料通过提供首次基于研究的干预措施来增强本地和全国知识基础设施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为值得通过评估值得支持。