Providing a Cohort Model to Increase Self-efficacy and Career Success of High-achieving, Low-income Undergraduate STEM Students

提供一个队列模型来提高高成就、低收入本科 STEM 学生的自我效能和职业成功

• 批准号: 2028650
• 负责人: Daniel Little
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Ohio Dominican 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: 2021-06-15 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028650&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Providing; Cohort; Model; Increase; Self

This project will contribute to the nation’s need for skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. To do so, it will support the graduation of high-achieving, low-income STEM undergraduates at Ohio Dominican University. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund scholarships to 14 full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Chemistry, and/or Environmental Science. First-year students will receive up to four-years of scholarship support. This project will combine scholarships with a student cohort model that includes common coursework, a designated learning community space, faculty mentoring, internship opportunities, a summer bridge program, research opportunities, graduate school preparation, and career counseling. Because of the University’s diverse student population, the project may increase the number of workforce ready STEM graduates from underrepresented populations. It also has the potential to improve understanding of how academic support and other interventions affect the success of undergraduate STEM students.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Through the creation of the St. Albert Scholars cohort, it aims to provide high-impact experiential learning and immerse students in a comprehensive experience that promotes access to student services and creates a College-to-Career culture. It is expected that achieving these aims will support increased Scholar retention, graduation rates, and career placement. Research has demonstrated that higher self-efficacy results in improved retention and persistence. The project’s research plan will study how support activities such as mentoring and undergraduate research impact student their impact on student self-efficacy and success. Ohio Dominican University’s student population has a diverse mix of students, presenting a novel opportunity to explore the intersectionality of student identities and the impact that the identities have on self-efficacy and success. A longitudinal study will examine the effectiveness of a multi-year, progressive set of academic interventions on two student cohorts from admission to graduation. The activities and results of this project may be applicable to other liberal arts institutions. This project will be evaluated by measuring student persistence to degree completion, self-efficacy, and placement in STEM careers or graduate programs upon matriculation. Research findings and best practices demonstrated by the project will be disseminated through publications and regional/national science education meetings. 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.

该项目将满足国家对熟练科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求，为此，它将在五年内支持俄亥俄州多米尼加大学的高成就、低收入 STEM 本科生毕业。该项目将为攻读生物学、化学和/或环境科学学士学位的 14 名全日制学生提供奖学金。一年级学生将获得长达四年的奖学金支持。学生群体模型包括共同课程、指定的学习社区空间、导师、实习机会、暑期桥梁项目、研究机会、研究生院准备和职业咨询。由于大学学生群体的多元化，该项目可能会增加。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入人群的 STEM 学位完成率。 、优秀本科生通过创建圣阿尔伯特学者群体，它的目的是提供高影响力的体验式学习，让学生沉浸在全面的体验中，从而促进学生获得服务并创造一种从大学到职业的文化。预计实现这些目标将有助于提高学者保留率、毕业率和职业安置。研究表明，更高的自我效能感可以提高保留率和坚持性。该项目的研究计划将研究指导和本科生研究等支持活动如何影响学生。他们对学生的影响俄亥俄州多米尼加大学的学生群体多元化，为探索学生身份的交叉性以及身份对自我效能和成功的影响提供了一个新的机会。一项纵向研究将检验其有效性。对两个学生群体从入学到毕业进行一套多年、渐进的学术干预 该项目的活动和结果可能适用于其他文科机构 该项目将通过衡量学生完成学位的坚持程度和自我评估。 - 功效和安置该项目展示的 STEM 职业或研究生课程将通过出版物和地区/国家科学教育会议进行传播。该项目由 NSF 的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金计划资助。增加获得 STEM 领域学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并产生有关学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学习的知识。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。