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.

该项目将通过支持巴尔的摩县马里兰州大学（UMBC）的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业，这将促进受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求。 UMBC是少数派服务机构，具有高转会入学率，包括来自马里兰州六所主要社区学院的转学生，他们将担任该项目的合作伙伴。在五年的持续时间内，该项目将为28名独特的全日制学生提供奖学金，这些学生正在攻读五个技术专业的学士学位：化学工程，计算机科学，计算机，计算机工程，信息系统和机械工程。除了全面的支持模型，包括新的学者务虚会，将获得两年奖学金的转会学者；教师，同伴和行业心理；学术和专业发展活动；以及第一学期的转学学生学。该项目提高了理解和应用转移成功框架的重要性，这些框架在扩大参与工作（计算和工程）方面的吸引力最少。该项目开发了学生的自我意识和实践策略的能力，使其成为同龄人的盟友，并减轻偏见问题并在计算和工程中排除。它还增强了基础架构，以改善计算和工程专业的转移学生的学习，保留和成功，并作为其他地区考虑适应的模型。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位的完成，以证明财务需求，使低收入，高成就的大学生的本科生完成。它将达到以下具体目标：1。在UMBC应用和增强基于证据的妇女技术中心（CWIT）计划模型，以支持学术和社会一体化，保留，毕业，毕业后以及在计算机和工程专业的经济需求中转移学生成功的成功。 2。加深并扩大与校园合作伙伴（即在学术事务和学生事务中）和社区学院合作伙伴的合作，以更好地满足2至4年途径的计算和工程前和工程前的需求。 3。检查增强的CWIT计划模型的影响以及转移成功支持对计算和工程专业中转学学生的学术和社会融合的影响。它还将解决以下研究问题：增强的CWIT计划模型和转移成功支持对计算和工程专业中转学学生的学术和社会融合的影响是什么？该项目将采用准实验研究方法，并包括匹配的样本分析。调查人员预计，这项研究将产生证据，何时，何时以及为什么学术和社会干预至关重要，以及有关如何完善和改善它们以取得未来学生成功的反馈。将进行外部评估，以项目的目的和活动为中心，并包括形成性和总结性组成部分。该项目的结果将由演讲和出版物提供给计算和工程教育和教育研究社区。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。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评估标准来评估通过评估而被认为是珍贵的。