Scholarships and Learning Community to Build Academic Momentum in STEM Students who Transfer from a Community College to a Four Year University

奖学金和学习社区为从社区学院转学到四年制大学的 STEM 学生建立学术动力

• 批准号: 1930092
• 负责人: Katherine Malara
• 金额: $ 155.71万
• 依托单位: Front Range Community College
• 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: 2019-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Learning; Community; Build; Academic

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. Specifically, this project will support students at Front Range Community College and Colorado State University. Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado. It has a diverse student body and is the largest source of transfer students to Colorado State University. Over the project's five-year duration, the project will provide up to four years of scholarship support for at least 150 STEM students. These students will pursue associate's and bachelor's degrees in mathematics, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, or computer sciences. A team of faculty and student success coaches will contribute to Scholars' success by: implementing Scholars' onboarding into a math and science learning community at both institutions; developing Scholars' knowledge and skills; ensuring transfer continuity through curriculum mapping and articulation; providing hands-on experiences; and mentoring the Scholars. This project is significant because it will integrate national best practices for improving student retention, transfer, and degree completion that are being adopted by community colleges nationwide. Broader impacts of this project include narrowing of educational gaps in Colorado and increasing the diversity of students completing STEM degrees. Its intellectual merit lies in a research study that will evaluate the use of near-term measures of student success (academic momentum) to predict and support long-term success. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Specifically, this project aims to increase the number of low-income, academically talented students from Front Range Community College who complete a STEM associate degree, transfer to Colorado State University, and complete a STEM baccalaureate degree. The specific aims are: 1) optimizing enrollment and persistence of low-income, academically talented students from Front Range Community College Math and Science Career and Academic Community; 2) increasing Scholar's STEM engagement, knowledge, and skills; and 3) improving continuity and articulation in the transfer process to increase student success. This project's research component will generate new knowledge about best practices for supporting baccalaureate degree completion of STEM students who begin their education at a two-year colleges. The research project will measure the effect of scholarships and the project's activities on student self-efficacy, science identity, and academic momentum. The project expects that academic momentum metrics will provide actionable data that may be better suited for measuring success of interventions than retention/completion metrics. An external evaluator will measure the extent of implementation of the project's activities, who participated, and if the project's objectives are met using formative and summative mixed-method measures. This project's outcomes and research findings will be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, posted on websites such as the Department of Education's "What Works Clearinghouse," and presented at regional and national conferences. 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.

该项目将通过支持受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，以支持具有经济需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。 具体而言，该项目将支持Front Range社区学院和科罗拉多州立大学的学生。 Front Range社区学院是科罗拉多州最大的社区学院。 它具有多元化的学生团体，是科罗拉多州立大学的最大转学学生来源。在该项目的五年持续时间内，该项目将为至少150名STEM学生提供多达四年的奖学金支持。 这些学生将攻读数学，生命科学，物理科学，工程或计算机科学学士学位和学士学位。一支由教师和学生成功教练组成的团队将为学者的成功做出贡献：在这两个机构的数学和科学学习社区中，实施学者的入职；发展学者的知识和技能；通过课程映射和表达来确保连续性转移；提供动手经验；并指导学者。该项目之所以重要，是因为它将整合国家最佳实践，以改善全国社区学院通过的学生保留，转学和学位完成。该项目的更广泛影响包括缩小科罗拉多州的教育差距以及增加完成茎学位的学生的多样性。它的智力优点在于一项研究，该研究将评估学生成功（学术势头）的近期衡量标准，以预测和支持长期成功。 该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明财务需求，使低收入，高成就的大学生的本科生完成。具体而言，该项目旨在增加来自Front Range社区学院的低收入，学术才华的学生的数量，这些学生获得了STEM副学士学位，转移到科罗拉多州立大学，并完成了STEM学士学位。具体目的是：1）优化来自前范围社区学院数学和科学职业和学术界的低收入，学术才华的学生的入学和持久性； 2）增加学者的STEM参与度，知识和技能； 3）改善转移过程中的连续性和表达，以提高学生的成功。该项目的研究组成部分将为支持在两年学院接受教育的STEM学生的学位完成学位的最佳实践提供新的知识。 该研究项目将衡量奖学金和该项目的活动对学生自我效能，科学认同和学术势头的影响。该项目预计，学术势头指标将提供可行的数据，与保留/完成指标相比，可能更适合衡量干预措施的成功。外部评估者将衡量项目活动的实施程度，参与的人，以及是否使用形成性和总结性的混合方法措施实现了项目的目标。该项目的成果和研究结果将提交在同行评审期刊上出版，并在教育部的“ What What Working Clearinghouse”等网站上发布，并在区域和国家会议上介绍。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金资助，该计划旨在增加具有证明经济需求的低收入学术才华的学生的数量，他们在STEM领域获得学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。