CAREER: Levelling the Playing Field in STEM: Post-transfer Success for Underrepresented Racial Minority Community College Transfers

职业：在 STEM 领域创造公平的竞争环境：少数族裔社区大学转学后取得成功

• 批准号: 2145520
• 负责人: Yu Chen
• 金额: $ 49.77万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2145520&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Levelling; Playing; Field; STEM

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization, and to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. This CAREER project will examine psychological and social factors that are influential to post-transfer success for underrepresented transfer students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Community colleges offer essential pathways toward bachelor’s degrees in STEM. Previous studies have focused on creating effective transfer pathways for STEM students, especially students from historically underrepresented populations, but significant challenges remain regarding the transfer experience after enrollment at four-year institutions. Using an asset model that emphasizes student strengths and traits, this project will identify facilitators and barriers associated with underrepresented STEM transfer students’ success and degree completion. Findings will advance knowledge and scholarly contributions to the literature. Through collaboration with student affairs administrators and professionals, this project will also develop and implement tailored institutional strategies to promote post-transfer success among underrepresented students in STEM. Empirical data will be used through a multi-phase, mixed-method design to accomplish research goals. In each research phase, validated surveys will be administered to measure key psychosocial factors such as STEM self-efficacy, STEM identity, transfer stigma, social and cultural capital, and transfer receptive culture. Transfer students’ retention and academic performance will be tracked over the project years and then matched with survey data. Multiple rounds of qualitative interviews will be conducted with STEM transfer student participants to supplement and contextualize quantitative survey findings. An integrated theoretical model will be developed and tested to reveal how psychosocial factors influence STEM success and post-transfer success, and how such influences may differ between groups that are and are not underrepresented in STEM. Research findings will be interrelated with educational activities, including a STEM transfer success program and development of online resources. The educational activities will inform higher education leaders and promote action in fostering a transfer receptive culture in four-year institutions.This project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. This award is also funded in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).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.

教师早期职业发展（职业）计划是一项全国科学基金会范围的活动，为支持早期职业教师提供奖项，他们有可能在研究和教育中充当学术榜样，在其部门或组织的使命中领导进步，并为在整合教育和研究方面的领导才能建立一生的基础。该职业项目将研究对科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科中代表性不足的转移学生的转移成功率影响的心理和社会因素。社区大学为STEM的学士学位提供了必不可少的途径。先前的研究集中在为STEM学生（尤其是来自历史上代表性不足的人群的学生）创造有效的转会途径，但是在四年制机构入学后的转会经验方面仍然存在重大挑战。使用强调学生优势和特质的资产模型，该项目将确定与代表性不足的STEM转移学生的成功和学位完成相关的促进者和障碍。调查结果将提高知识，并在科学上为文献做出贡献。通过与学生事务管理员和专业人员的合作，该项目还将制定并实施量身定制的机构策略，以促进STEM中代表性不足的学生的转移后成功。经验数据将通过多相混合方法设计来实现研究目标。在每个研究阶段，将进行经过验证的调查，以衡量关键的社会心理因素，例如STEM自我效能，STEM身份，转移污名，社会和文化资本以及转移相关文化。转学学生的保留和学业表现将在整个项目中进行跟踪，然后与调查数据相匹配。将对STEM转移学生参与者进行多轮定性访谈，以补充和背景化定量调查结果。将开发和测试一个综合的理论模型，以揭示心理因素如何影响茎的成功和转移后成功，以及在STEM中的群体和不足的群体之间可能有所不同。研究发现将与教育活动相关，包括STEM转移成功计划和在线资源的开发。这些教育活动将为高等教育领导者提供信息，并促进在四年制机构中培养转移接受文化方面的行动。该项目由EHR Core Research（ECR）计划资助，EHR核心研究计划（ECR）计划，该计划支持有关STEM学习和学习环境，扩大STEM参与和STEM劳动力发展的基础研究的工作。该奖项还部分根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公共法第117-2）进行了资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为是通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。