Implementing and Examining the Impact of an Enhanced Transfer Scholars Program for Inclusive Computing and Engineering Education

实施和检查增强型转学学者计划对包容性计算和工程教育的影响

• 批准号: 2130352
• 负责人: Carolyn Seaman
• 金额: $ 78.86万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130352&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementing; Examining; Impact; Enhanced; Transfer

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). UMBC is a minority serving institution with high transfer enrollment, including transfer students from six key Maryland community colleges who will serve as partners in this project. Over its five year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 28 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in five technical majors: Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, and Mechanical Engineering. Transfer Scholars will receive two-year scholarships in addition to a holistic model of support including a new scholars retreat; faculty, peer, and industry mentoring; academic and professional development activities; and a transfer student seminar in their first semester. This project advances the importance of understanding and applying transfer success frameworks in STEM fields that have seen the least traction in broadening participation efforts (computing and engineering). This project develops students’ capacity for self-awareness and practical strategies to act as allies to their peers and mitigate issues of bias and exclusion in computing and engineering. It also enhances the infrastructure to improve learning, retention, and success of transfer students in computing and engineering majors and serves as a model for other regions to consider adapting. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. It will achieve the following specific aims: 1. Apply and enhance the evidence-based Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) program model at UMBC to support academic and social integration, retention, graduation, and post-baccalaureate success of transfer students in computing and engineering majors with financial need. 2. Deepen and expand collaborations with campus partners (i.e. in both Academic Affairs and Student Affairs) and community college partners to better address pre- and post- transfer needs in computing and engineering across the 2- to 4-year pathway. 3. Examine the impact of the enhanced CWIT program model and transfer success supports on the academic and social integration of transfer students in computing and engineering majors. It will also address the following research question: What is the impact of the enhanced CWIT program model and transfer success supports on the academic and social integration of transfer students in computing and engineering majors? The project will employ quasi-experimental research methods and include a matched samples analysis. The investigators anticipate that this research will produce evidence of which, when, and why academic and social interventions matter, as well as feedback on how to refine and improve them for future student success. An external evaluation will be conducted, centered on the project aims and activities, and will include formative and summative components. Results of this project will be made available by presentations and publications to the computing and engineering education and educational research communities. 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.

该项目将支持马里兰大学巴尔的摩郡分校 (UMBC) 保留和毕业那些表现出经济需求的成绩优异、低收入的学生，从而满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求UMBC 是一所少数族裔服务机构，转学入学率很高，其中包括来自马里兰州六所重点社区学院的转学学生，他们将作为该项目的合作伙伴，在为期五年的时间里，该项目将为 28 名独特的全日制学生提供奖学金。五个技术专业的学士学位：化学工程、计算机科学、计算机工程、信息系统和机械工程，转学学者将获得为期两年的奖学金，以及包括新学者撤退在内的整体支持；该项目强调了在 STEM 领域（计算和工程）中理解和应用转学成功框架的重要性。这个项目开发学生的自我意识和实践策略的能力，以成为同龄人的盟友，并减轻计算和工程领域的偏见和排斥问题。 它还增强了基础设施，以改善计算和工程专业转学生的学习、保留和成功。并作为其他地区考虑采用的模式，该项目的总体目标是提高具有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生的 STEM 学位。它将实现以下具体目标： 1. 申请和申请。加强以证据为基础的妇女中心UMBC 技术博士 (CWIT) 项目模式，支持有经济需要的计算机和工程专业转学生的学术和社会融合、保留、毕业和学士学位后成功 2. 深化和扩大与校园合作伙伴的合作（即在两个领域）。学术事务和学生事务）和社区大学合作伙伴，以更好地解决 2 至 4 年路径中计算和工程转学前和转学后的需求 3. 检查增强的 CWIT 计划模型和转学成功的影响。它还将解决以下研究问题：增强的 CWIT 项目模式和转学成功支持对计算机专业转学生的学术和社会融合有何影响。该项目将采用准实验研究方法，并包括匹配样本分析，研究人员预计这项研究将提供学术和社会干预措施的重要性、时间和原因的证据，以及如何改进的反馈。并为未来学生的成功而改进它们。将以项目目标和活动为中心进行，并将包括形成性和总结性部分，该项目的结果将通过演示和出版物向计算和工程教育和教育研究界提供。该项目由 NSF 奖学金资助。科学、技术、工程和数学项目，旨在增加获得 STEM 领域学位的、有经济需要的低收入学术才华学生的数量，并提高未来 STEM 工作者的教育水平。有关学术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。