Collaborative Research:Beyond Representation: Adversity Experiences on STEM Motivation, Performance, and Persistence

合作研究：超越表征：逆境经历对 STEM 动机、表现和毅力的影响

• 批准号: 2100283
• 负责人: Jonathan Cook
• 金额: $ 3.81万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2100283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Beyond; Representation; Adversity

Understanding the impact of adversity experiences on STEM persistence and performance is significant to broaden participation of individuals from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented. Researchers at Georgia State University and Pennsylvania State University aim to study the effects of adversity experiences on student motivation to pursue STEM majors and student persistence and performance in STEM degree programs. The project aims to develop and use a model that predicts how different sources of adversity affect STEM motivation, persistence, and performance. This project aligns with the EHR Core Research program’s goal of addressing challenges in STEM interest, learning, and participation.The longitudinal study will include surveys of 1000 first-time, first-year STEM majors enrolled in introductory Chemistry and Psychology courses at two large minority-serving and economically diverse public research institutions. The project aims to produce adversity profiles, derived from Latent Profile Analysis, that will guide investigations of links among adversity, motivation, and decisions to remain in STEM fields. The project seeks to identify patterns of adversity and determine which profiles have the strongest association with STEM persistence and achievement, examine how longitudinal patterns in motivation and performance operate as a function of adversity, and determine how adversity profiles and adversity levels change over time. Demographic differences and differences between STEM departments and universities will be examined. This project seeks to advance knowledge about adversity experiences’ impact on STEM motivation that may be used to develop interventions that target students whose STEM motivation and performance are inhibited by multidimensional adversity. 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.

了解广告经验对STEM持久性和性能的影响对于扩大传统上代表性不足的群体的个人的参与至关重要。佐治亚州立大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的研究人员旨在研究广告经验对学生动机的影响，以追求STEM专业的学生和学生在STEM学位课程中的持久性和表现。该项目旨在开发和使用一个模型，以预测广告的不同来源如何影响STEM动机，持久性和性能。该项目与EHR Core Research计划的目标相吻合，该计划的目标是解决STEM兴趣，学习和参与方面的挑战。该纵向研究将包括对两个大型少数少数群体服务和经济多样的公共研究机构进行简介化学和心理学课程的1000名首次STEM专业的调查。该项目旨在制作来自潜在概况分析的广告概况，该概况将指导对广告，动机和决定保留在STEM领域的链接的调查。该项目旨在确定广告模式，并确定哪些配置文件与STEM的持久性和成就具有很强的联系，从而研究了动机和性能操作的纵向模式作为广告的函数，并确定广告资料和逆境水平如何随着时间而变化。将检查STEM部门和大学之间的人口差异和差异。该项目旨在促进有关广告体验对STEM动机的影响的知识，这些知识可能用于开发针对学生的动力和表现的干预措施，其多维广告抑制了STEM动机和表现。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。