Collaborative Research: Effects of Mentoring Relationship Heterogeneity on Student Outcomes among NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Participants

合作研究： NSF 本科生研究经历 (REU) 项目参与者的指导关系异质性对学生成绩的影响

• 批准号: 2055379
• 负责人: Sara Grineski
• 金额: $ 26.14万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 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: 2021-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Effects; Mentoring; Relationship

Understanding mentoring relationships is critical to increasing diversity in STEM fields. Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Utah propose to study the effects of mentor relationship mismatch on student outcomes during NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs. This project aims to employ a novel approach to studying mentoring by examining multilevel mentoring and demographics of students and the mentor team. The project aims to collect data from participating students and mentors from across the country at the end of the summer research program and during the next year to gauge outcomes related to STEM interest and persistence and intent to follow a STEM career pathway. This project aligns with the EHR Core Research program’s goal of addressing challenges in STEM interest, learning, and participation. The project aims to address three interrelated research questions, including how mentoring relationship heterogeneity impacts short-term and mid-term student outcomes, if these effects can be moderated by interactional dynamics between mentors and mentees, and how mentoring relationship heterogeneity impacts educational, research, and career goals immediately after the REU experience and after one year. Mentoring Relationship Heterogeneity in Context provides a conceptual framework focusing on how student mentees match with multiple mentors, including graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The concept of programmatic heterogeneity will be used to measure the dissimilarity between students’ demographic background and the demographic composition of their REU program. Post-REU surveys collected from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) data will be used along with a matrix analysis of semi-structure individual interview responses. Short-and mid-term student outcomes consist of immediate gains in working like a scientist, comfort with science skills, science identity, sense of clarity about career path, research productivity, persistence in STEM major, and intent to pursue graduate school. The project seeks to advance knowledge about mentoring relationships and aims to produce mentor and mentee workshops to positively impact undergraduate research students from underrepresented groups. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research program that supports fundamental research focused on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM professional workforce development.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.

了解心理关系对于增加STEM领域的多样性至关重要。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的研究人员和犹他大学的建议，旨在研究心理关系不匹配对本科生NSF研究经验期间学生成果的影响（REU）计划。该项目旨在通过研究学生和心理团队的多层次心理和人口统计学来采用一种新颖的方法来研究心理。该项目旨在在夏季研究计划结束时从全国各地的参与学生和导师那里收集数据，并在第二年衡量与STEM兴趣和持久性有关的结果，并打算遵循STEM职业途径。该项目与EHR核心研究计划的目标保持一致，该计划的目标是解决STEM兴趣，学习和参与方面的挑战。该项目旨在解决三个相互关联的研究问题，包括如何在上下文中指导关系异质性提供一个概念框架，重点是学生导师如何与多个导师匹配，包括研究生和博士后研究人员。程序性异质性的概念将用于衡量学生人口统计背景与REU计划的人口组成之间的差异。将从中心收集的REU后调查（CIMER）数据（CIMER）数据的改善，以及半结构个体访谈响应的矩阵分析。短期和中期的学生成果包括像科学家一样的立即收益，具有科学技能的舒适性，科学身份，对职业道路的清晰度，研究生产力，STEM少数的持久性以及购买研究生院的意图。该项目旨在促进有关心理关系的知识，并旨在举办心理和心理研讨会，以积极影响来自代表性不足的群体的本科研究专业的学生。该项目由EHR核心研究计划提供资金，该计划支持着针对STEM学习和学习环境，扩大STEM的参与以及STEM Professional Workerforce开发的基础研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。