CAREER: Responsive Support Structures for Marginalized Students: A Critical Interrogation of Navigational Strategies

职业：边缘化学生的响应式支持结构：对导航策略的批判性质疑

• 批准号: 1943811
• 负责人: Walter Lee
• 金额: $ 57.09万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1943811&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Responsive; Support; Structures; Marginalized; CAREER; Responsive; Support; Structures; Marginalized

Fostering educational environments that empower every student to access available and necessary resources in their pursuit of undergraduate engineering degrees is a national imperative. To support this goal, colleges and universities provide numerous forms of student support intended to increase the retention and graduation rates of its undergraduate engineering students (e.g., peer mentoring programs). Because of the current lack of diversity in engineering, support often focuses on marginalized groups, such as Black and Latinx students. However, student outcomes and previous research reveals the need for more responsive student support tailored to individual students’ needs. Accordingly, the aim of this CAREER project is to advance the extent to which the engineering education community understands how marginalized students 1) navigate undergraduate engineering programs, and 2) make decisions with respect to seeking help. The study will provide information directly to student support services. By understanding the experiences and decision-making of Black and Latinx students, colleges and universities can support educational environments that are more responsive to the potential diversity of the student populations. The impact of this work will be the more intentional use of university investments and resources focused on broadening participation in engineering.This CAREER award is a multi-case study which seeks to: (1) compare the support systems and navigational strategies across four universities of undergraduate engineering students’ responses to challenging situations (e.g., receiving poor grades, needing a recommendation letter), and (2) critically interrogate the effectiveness and appropriateness of different navigational strategies as defined by the students themselves. Primary data sources include institutional documents (e.g., program descriptions) from academic units and interviews with marginalized students. Data analysis is informed by person-environment fit theory. This project will introduce person-environment fit theory to scholars and practitioners who focus on marginalized students in engineering, and significantly advance fundamental knowledge of the strengths and deficiencies within university support structures and processes. The results of the study will inform the development of Situational Judgement Inventories for undergraduate engineering students, which will be openly shared, and seminars and workshops for educators and administrators.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.

培养教育环境，使每个学生能够获得可用的资源，以追求本科工程学位，这是全国性的。为了支持这一目标，大学提供了多种形式的学生支持，旨在提高其本科工程专业学生的保留率和毕业率（例如，同伴心理计划）。由于目前的工程缺乏多样性，通常专注于边缘化的群体，例如黑人和拉丁裔学生。但是，学生的成绩和以前的研究表明，有必要为学生的需求量身定制的更多响应式学生支持。根据该职业项目的目的是提高工程教育社区了解边缘化的学生的程度1）驾驶本科工程计划，以及2）在寻求帮助方面做出决定。该研究将直接向学生支持服务提供信息。通过了解黑人和拉丁裔学生的经验和决策，大学和大学可以支持对学生群体潜在多样性反应的教育环境。这项工作的影响将是更故意使用大学投资和重点是扩大工程参与的资源。这项职业奖是一项多案例研究，试图：（1）比较：（1）比较四所大学本科工程大学的大学的支持系统和导航策略，并需要对挑战级别的挑战和评估（例如，（例如，提出建议），以及（2）CRITIATS，（例如），以及（2）CRITIATS，（2）CRITIATS），（2））（2））（2））（2））（2））（2））（2））学生本身定义的导航策略。主要数据来源包括学术单位的机构文件（例如，计划描述）以及与边缘学生的访谈。数据分析是通过人与环境拟合理论告知的。该项目将向专注于工程学的学生的学者和从业人员介绍人与环境拟合理论，并显着提高大学支持结构和过程中的优势和缺陷的基本知识。该研究的结果将为本科工程专业的学生的情境判断清单的发展提供信息，这将是公开共享的，并为教育工作者和管理人员开发了半手和讲习班。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来诚实地支持。