Facilitating Undergraduate Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Through Improved Student Competencies

通过提高学生能力促进本科生在科学、技术、工程和数学方面的成功

基本信息

批准号：
1929722
负责人：
Donald Wink
金额：
$ 95.56万
依托单位：
University of Illinois at Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929722&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Facilitating Undergraduate Success Science Technology

项目摘要

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund both two-year and four-year scholarships to 35 students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in chemistry and biochemistry. The project will provide Scholars with access to new activities including: 1) A three-day internship immersion workshop; 2) Student Success workshops through University's Academic Center for Excellence; and 3) A Professional Presence course taught at the College of Business. Peer Success Coaches from chemistry and biochemistry programs will provide Scholars with mentoring that can help them tackle both professional and personal challenges. The University of Illinois at Chicago is a public, urban, land-grant institution and a federally-designated Hispanic-serving institution, so the results from this work will have wide applicability in understanding the support of STEM students. As part of the broader impacts, the project will serve as a pilot to evaluate proposed activities and their impact on developing undergraduate competencies and academic success in a Research 1 Institution. The project will also contribute to the science education community by evaluating effective strategies for supporting low-income talented students at different stages of their undergraduate careers at Research 1 Institutions. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The specific aim of the project is to evaluate if activities aimed at growing intra- and interpersonal competencies can help support and retain undergraduate students within STEM programs of study. The project aims to determine if an internship immersion workshop, a student-success workshop series, and a professional presence course can help strengthen self-efficacy and collaboration, thus improving students' academic outcomes. It is predicted that the Scholars who complete the curricular and co-curricular activities will have higher grade point averages in their majors, as well as higher rates of degree completion and a shorter time-to-degree than their peers. An independent evaluator will study project documentation and internal assessment to address if the project has achieved benchmarked process activities and if the project has used resources and expertise to support the Scholars as STEM majors. Results from this project will be disseminated through a dedicated webpage, publications in peer-reviewed articles, and presentations at symposia, workshops, and seminars. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目将通过支持有经济需求的成绩优异、低收入学生在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的保留和毕业，满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。该项目为期五年，将为攻读化学和生物化学学士学位的 35 名学生提供两年和四年的奖学金。该项目将为学者们提供新的活动机会，包括：1）为期三天的沉浸式实习研讨会； 2) 通过大学卓越学术中心举办的学生成功研讨会； 3) 商学院教授的专业表现课程。来自化学和生物化学项目的同行成功教练将为学者提供指导，帮助他们应对专业和个人挑战。伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校是一所公立、城市、赠地机构，也是联邦政府指定的拉美裔服务机构，因此这项工作的结果将在了解 STEM 学生的支持方面具有广泛的适用性。作为更广泛影响的一部分，该项目将作为一个试点，评估拟议的活动及其对研究 1 机构培养本科生能力和学术成功的影响。该项目还将评估在 Research 1 机构本科生涯不同阶段支持低收入优秀学生的有效策略，为科学教育界做出贡献。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生完成 STEM 学位的机会。该项目的具体目标是评估旨在提高内部和人际能力的活动是否有助于支持和保留 STEM 学习项目中的本科生。该项目旨在确定沉浸式实习研讨会、学生成功研讨会系列和专业存在课程是否有助于增强自我效能和协作，从而提高学生的学业成绩。据预测，完成课程和课外活动的学者将比同龄人拥有更高的专业平均绩点、更高的学位完成率和更短的获得学位的时间。独立评估员将研究项目文件和内部评估，以确定项目是否实现了基准流程活动，以及项目是否使用了资源和专业知识来支持学者作为 STEM 专业。该项目的结果将通过专门的网页、同行评审文章的出版物以及专题讨论会、讲习班和研讨会的演示来传播。该项目由 NSF 科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加具有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生获得 STEM 领域学位的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并产生有关低收入学生的学业成功、保留、转学、毕业以及学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。