Multilevel Mentoring to Improve Belonging, Metacognition, and Science Identity of Bachelor Degree-Seeking Science and Mathematics Students

多层次辅导以提高理科和数学学士学位学生的归属感、元认知和科学认同

• 批准号: 2030762
• 负责人: Jessica Rettig
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Denison University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multilevel; Mentoring; Improve; Belonging; Metacognition

This project will contribute to the national need for well-prepared scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. It will do so by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Denison University, a private, liberal arts college. Over its five-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 32 undergraduate students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics, or Computer Science. These Scholars will be admitted in four cohorts of eight students and receive up to four years of scholarship support. The project aims to increase student graduation in STEM fields by linking scholarships to a multilevel mentoring program designed to help students acclimate to campus, progress academically, grow as researchers, and prepare for the STEM workforce. This project has the potential to increase understanding about how to broaden participation in STEM fields and to learn how multilevel mentoring can support retention and graduation of low-income students in STEM.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields. The four primary aims of the project are to: (1) provide financial support to low-income students; (2) create a cohort structure designed to increase Scholars' feelings of belonging; (3) Implement a multilevel program of peer, academic, research, and career mentoring; and (4) engage in formal assessment and evaluation to explore the role of mentoring in developing Scholars' sense of belonging, science identity, and metacognition, while also increasing persistence and STEM graduation. Though each component of this project has been demonstrated to affect student persistence in STEM, little is known about the use of multilevel mentoring on metacognition and science identity. As such, this project may increase understanding about how effective mentoring may support STEM student success by affecting key factors such as science identity and metacognition. Project results will be made available through an established regional network of liberal arts colleges, presentations at national professional conferences and publications in venues focused on post-secondary STEM education. 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.

该项目将促进全国性的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求。它将通过支持私立的文科学院丹尼森大学（Denison University）的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，具有表现出的财务需求。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为32名攻读生物学，生物化学，化学，地球科学，数学或计算机科学学士学位的本科生提供奖学金。这些学者将在四个学生的四个学生中被录取，并获得多达四年的奖学金支持。该项目旨在通过将奖学金与多级心理计划联系起来，以帮助学生适应校园，准确进步，成为研究人员成长并为STEM劳动力做准备，从而增加Stem领域的学生毕业。该项目有可能提高人们对如何扩大对STEM领域的参与度的了解，并了解多级指导如何支持STEM中低收入学生的保留和毕业。该项目的四个主要目标是：（1）为低收入学生提供财政支持； （2）创建一个旨在增加学者的归属感的队列结构； （3）实施一项多级课程，包括同伴，学术，研究和职业心态； （4）进行正式的评估和评估，以探讨心态在发展学者的归属感，科学认同和元认知意识中的作用，同时也增加了持久性和茎的毕业生。尽管已证明该项目的每个组成部分都会影响学生在STEM中的持久性，但对在元认知和科学认同上使用多层次心态知之甚少。因此，该项目可能会通过影响科学认同和元认知等关键因素来增加对有效的心理化可能支持STEM学生成功的理解。项目业绩将通过既定的文理学院区域网络，全国专业会议的演讲以及着重于大专STEM教育的场地的出版物提供。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，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人数，他们在STEM领域获得了学位。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。