HSI Planning Project: Integrative Undergraduate STEM Education at Angelo State University (I-USE ASU)

HSI 规划项目：安杰洛州立大学 (I-USE ASU) 本科综合 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 2122828
• 负责人: Nicole Lozano
• 金额: $ 19.96万
• 依托单位: Angelo State University
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Integrative; Undergraduate

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1: Planning Project: Integrative Undergraduate STEM Education at Angelo State University aims to identify the motivations and challenges that promising Latinx students face in their academic preparation and the impressions of their families, secondary school teachers and administrators towards STEM education and careers. The findings from this project will begin the process of guiding the development of new critical pathways in STEM that will embrace the motivations and address challenges to increase Latinx enrollment and completion of STEM degrees. Reducing the barriers and focusing on motivational approaches will help address the growing demand disparity that exists in the STEM workforce and will create an environment conducive for Latinx to thrive in their STEM education. Aligning with the numerous reports that have called for the reform of undergraduate education to improve student learning outcomes, persistence, and graduation rates for STEM students and leaders, this project recognizes that improvements other than coursework and teaching are needed to create student success, especially for minoritized students. These areas address the critical social and emotional components and the impact of barriers, implicit bias, and microaggression, which significantly influence student interest in pursuing STEM majors and careers, especially in Latinx, female, and historically underrepresented groups. Outcomes of this work will continue to refine existing supports and create pathways that meet students where they are in their college careers academically and socially through pathways that enable rather than disable the motivation of Latinx STEM students to succeed. The goal of this project is to identify the motivations for pursuing STEM at distinct stages of the academic career and the perception of family and community groups towards STEM education and careers among Latinx and historically underrepresented groups. The research questions include: 1) What are the diversion points for students leaving STEM fields? 2) How do families influence choices in career and education? and 3) How do community members influence choices in career and education? A mixed-method approach will ascertain findings from key constituents that will determine the key metrics needed to redesign the college STEM pipeline to a student-focused guided critical pathway approach. The expected results will reveal the negative impact of a traditionally offered STEM academic program on promising Latinx STEM students. The work will be disseminated through publications, conferences, and white papers, and through website communication. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善本科 STEM 教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI 计划）的支持下，本轨道 1：规划项目：安吉洛州立大学的综合本科 STEM 教育旨在确定有前途的拉丁裔学生在学术准备和学习过程中面临的动机和挑战。他们的家庭、中学教师和管理人员对 STEM 教育和职业的印象。该项目的研究结果将开始指导 STEM 中新的关键途径的开发，这些途径将包含动机并解决增加拉丁裔入学率和完成 STEM 学位的挑战。减少障碍并注重激励方法将有助于解决 STEM 劳动力中存在的日益增长的需求差距，并将为拉丁裔在 STEM 教育中蓬勃发展创造一个有利的环境。许多报告呼吁改革本科教育，以提高 STEM 学生和领导者的学习成果、坚持不懈和毕业率，该项目认识到，要创造学生成功，除了课程作业和教学之外，还需要进行改进，特别是对于少数民族学生。 这些领域解决了关键的社会和情感因素以及障碍、隐性偏见和微侵犯的影响，这些因素极大地影响了学生追求 STEM 专业和职业的兴趣，特别是在拉丁裔、女性和历史上代表性不足的群体中。这项工作的成果将继续完善现有的支持，并通过促进而不是削弱拉丁裔 STEM 学生成功动机的途径，在学术和社交方面满足学生在大学职业生涯中的需求。该项目的目标是确定拉丁裔和历史上代表性不足群体在学术生涯不同阶段追求 STEM 的动机，以及家庭和社区群体对 STEM 教育和职业的看法。研究问题包括：1）学生离开STEM领域的分流点是什么？ 2）家庭如何影响职业和教育的选择？ 3) 社区成员如何影响职业和教育的选择？混合方法将确定关键组成部分的发现，从而确定将大学 STEM 管道重新设计为以学生为中心的引导关键路径方法所需的关键指标。预期结果将揭示传统提供的 STEM 学术课程对有前途的拉丁裔 STEM 学生的负面影响。该工作将通过出版物、会议、白皮书以及网站传播来传播。 HSI 计划旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育、扩大 STEM 的参与并建设 HSI 的能力。鉴于 HSI 的多样化性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新方法，激励机构和社区转型并促进 (i) 关于学生参与学习的基础研究，(ii) 关于如何有效地实现 STEM 多样化和增加参与的基础研究，以及 (iii) 提高我们对如何建设 HSI 机构能力的理解。 HSI 计划支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取灵感，以产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。