Broadening Participation Research: Investigating the Role of Psychosocial Factors on Students Taking Gatekeeper Courses in STEM

扩大参与研究：调查心理社会因素对参加 STEM 门卫课程的学生的作用

• 批准号: 2011909
• 负责人: Caesar Jackson
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Central University
• 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: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011909&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Investigating; Role

The project investigates the psychosocial factors that influence learning and performance for undergraduate students taking introductory science and mathematics courses at North Carolina Central University. The project extends prior research where the investigator found that among the factors measured on a learning motivation and strategies questionnaire, the students’ expressed self-efficacy was found to be the strongest predictor of course performance, and was the singular predictor when controlling for prior achievement. The current study will use a generalized latent subgroup approach to allow for a finer-grained analysis that could detail relationships or interactions that might be missed otherwise. The project illustrates the possibilities a generalized latent subgroup perspective yields for addressing the complexity and heterogeneity of broadening participation STEM education research.The research explores the intersection of the multiple dimensions of a generalized population, characterized by socioeconomic status, environmental and situational factors, personal and social identities, and motivational states of students, and corresponding relationships with behavioral and academic outcome variables associated with them taking gatekeeper STEM courses. The study will examine four research questions: (1) What generalized latent subgroups are determined from background characteristics, motivational, and psychological variables?, (2) Do background characteristics, motivational, and psychological variables interact to influence learning behavior in STEM courses?, (3) To what extent does the psychosocial and behavioral factors associated with learning determine academic outcomes, such as pass rates and retention in STEM courses? And (4) What differential effects are reflected on learning behaviors and academic outcomes in STEM courses from generalized subgroups? Survey data will be collected from students in introductory STEM courses and analyzed using Latent Class Analysis as a methodological approach. The research results can contribute to more effective interventions to improve retention of underrepresented groups in STEM.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.

该项目调查了影响北卡罗来纳中央大学本科生学习科学和数学入门课程的社会心理因素。该项目扩展了之前的研究，调查人员发现，在学习动机和策略问卷测量的因素中，学生的学习动机和表现受到影响。发现表达的自我效能是课程表现的最强预测因素，并且是控制先前成绩时的单一预测因素。当前的研究将使用广义的潜在子组方法来进行更细粒度的分析，以详细说明关系或关系。可能存在的相互作用该项目说明了广义潜在亚群体视角在解决扩大参与 STEM 教育研究的复杂性和异质性方面的可能性。该研究探讨了以社会经济地位、环境和情境因素为特征的广义人口的多个维度的交叉点。 、个人和社会身份、学生的动机状态，以及与他们参加 STEM 课程相关的行为和学术成果变量的相应关系。该研究将探讨四个研究问题：（1）哪些广义潜在亚群是根据背景特征确定的。动机和心理变量？，(2) 背景特征、动机和心理变量是否相互作用，影响 STEM 课程中的学习行为？，(3) 与学习相关的社会心理和行为因素在多大程度上决定学业成果，例如STEM 课程的通过率和保留率？以及 (4) 将从 STEM 入门课程的学生中收集调查数据，并使用潜在班级分析作为方法进行分析。方法。研究成果有助于采取更有效的干预措施，以提高 STEM 中代表性不足群体的保留率。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。