Rocky Mountain Scholars Program: Determining the Impact of Cohort-Based Undergraduate Research

落基山学者计划：确定基于队列的本科研究的影响

• 批准号: 1930417
• 负责人: Mark Brown
• 金额: $ 99.53万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930417&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rocky; Mountain; Scholars; Program; Determining

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 Colorado State University, a public, Land Grant Institution. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund two-year scholarships to 60 students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and/or Biology. These students will participate in research experiences under the direction of faculty mentors to solve engaging, real-world problems. The project includes a research study that will examine how different approaches to faculty-mentored research experiences affect student performance, graduation rates, and career goals. The broader impacts of this project include further developing the pipeline of high-ability community college students who transition into leadership roles in their fields. The research findings of this program will be widely disseminated for the broad benefit of college educators throughout the nation. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The Rocky Mountain Scholars Project will work with an alliance of community colleges to: 1) Recruit four cohorts of 15 transfer students who meet the financial need, high-ability criteria; 2) Provide the Scholars with scholarship funding; 3) Engage Scholars in faculty-mentored research assistantships; and 4) Provide Scholars with a support program centered on student engagement. The project research plan includes an efficacy study examining whether cohort-based mentored research experiences are more effective than individual mentored-research experiences, with regard academic performance, retention, STEM persistence, decision to enter graduate school, and decision to enter STEM careers. Moreover, it will investigate how the quality and quantity of student interactions with cohort mates and faculty mentors influence these outcomes. The research will consist of a mixed methods approach including: 1) statistical analyses using data obtained from program-generated variables as well as data from Institutional Research and the Analytics Section of the Career Center; 2) surveys and self-efficacy analyses to elicit a holistic picture of students' perceptions of the program's efficacy. Results of this project will be published in STEM education journals, posted on the program web site, and presented at 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.

该项目将支持科罗拉多州立大学（一所公立赠地机构）保留和毕业有经济需要的成绩优异、低收入的学生，从而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 60 名攻读数学和/或生物学学士学位的学生提供两年奖学金。这些学生将在教师导师的指导下参与研究经验，以解决引人入胜的现实问题。该项目包括一项研究，将研究教师指导的研究经历的不同方法如何影响学生的表现、毕业率和职业目标。该项目更广泛的影响包括进一步开发高能力社区学院学生的人才梯队，让他们过渡到各自领域的领导角色。该计划的研究成果将广泛传播，以造福全国大学教育工作者。 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。落基山学者项目将与社区大学联盟合作： 1) 招募四批转学生，每批 15 名，他们满足经济需要、高能力标准； 2）为学者提供奖学金资助； 3）让学者参与教师指导的研究助理； 4) 为学者提供以学生参与为中心的支持计划。该项目研究计划包括一项功效研究，旨在检验基于队列的指导研究经验是否比个人指导研究经验更有效，涉及学业成绩、保留率、STEM 坚持、进入研究生院的决定以及进入 STEM 职业的决定。此外，它将调查学生与同学和教师导师互动的质量和数量如何影响这些结果。该研究将采用混合方法，包括：1）使用从项目生成的变量中获得的数据以及来自机构研究和职业中心分析部分的数据进行统计分析； 2) 调查和自我效能分析，以全面了解学生对项目功效的看法。该项目的结果将发表在 STEM 教育期刊上、发布在该计划网站上，并在会议上展示。该项目由 NSF 的科学、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且获得 STEM 领域学位的低收入学术才华学生的数量。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。

项目成果

Rocky Mountain Scholars Program: Impact on Female Undergraduate Engineering Students – Social and Academic Support, Retention, and Success

落基山学者计划：对女本科工程生的影响 – 社会和学术支持、保留和成功

• DOI: 10.3991/ijep.v10i4.12139
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP
• 作者: Brown, Mark;Hitt, Matthew P.;Stephens, Alyssa;Dickmann, Ellyn M
• 通讯作者: Dickmann, Ellyn M