Leveraging Technology: Providing a Comprehensive, Active Learning, Online Support Network for STEM Students Attending a Small, Rural, and Remote Community College

利用技术：为就读小型、农村和偏远社区学院的 STEM 学生提供全面、主动学习的在线支持网络

• 批准号: 2130277
• 负责人: Anna Thompson
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: FEATHER RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
• 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: 2022-04-15 至 2028-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Leveraging; Technology; Providing; Comprehensive; Active

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 Feather River College (FRC), which is one of the smallest, most rural and remote community colleges within the California Community College System. Over its six year duration, this project will fund scholarships up to 43 community college students who are pursuing associate’s degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, or Physical Sciences. Full-time STEM students will receive up to 6 semesters of scholarships and part-time students (enrolled for at least 6 semester units) will receive up to 8 semesters of scholarships based on financial need. FRC is a small community college in rural and remote north-eastern California. The project aims to increase the parity of rural STEM students with their urban peers, as they enter and graduate from FRC’s Associate of Science programs in order to transfer vertically in STEM or to join governmental organizations or industry in a STEM capacity. Importantly, rural community colleges are the fastest growing sector of U.S. community colleges and thus represent one of the greatest future opportunities to impact STEM workforce development. This project, structured by the Guided Pathways Model, aims to leverage technology in order to build a STEM identity that reaches outside the county without the need to travel, and to more fully support students as they enter the rural STEM pipeline. As a small, rural and geographically remote community college, this project has significant potential to become a model to advance understanding of how to effectively and efficiently support rural STEM students as they navigate the rural STEM pipeline.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The scope of this project aims to increase student persistence in STEM fields by linking scholarships with the following three objectives and interventions: (1) Recruit, retain and support FRC STEM Students with an institutional STEM Task Force. (2) Boost STEM identity and ongoing participation in STEM with an online STEM success and enrichment course that will bring STEM scientists and their science to FRC in an effective and efficient way. Both these objectives will be supported by STEM online active learning office Hours that will (3) allow students to increase student engagement and learning in a time-flexible setting. An important goal of this project, supported by an embedded educational researcher, is to increase understanding about the barriers rural STEM students face and how to mitigate such barriers to increase retention in the rural STEM pipeline and thus positively impact STEM workforce development. In addition, a robust, iterative project evaluation approach will ensure that project objectives are met and modified as needed to address the barrier that affect the success and retention of rural STEM students. The implementation and outcomes of this project should be of interest to a variety of post-secondary education stakeholders interested in rural communities and STEM workforce development. Dissemination will target a wide audience including, but not limited to, education researchers, policymakers, and transfer institutions, in order to maximize the visibility of this project. 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.

该项目将支持羽毛河学院 (FRC) 保留和毕业有经济需要的成绩优异、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。该项目是加州社区学院系统中最小、最偏远的社区学院之一，在为期六年的时间内，将为多达 43 名正在攻读生物学、化学、环境科学或物理科学副学士学位的社区学院学生提供奖学金。 。全日制 STEM 学生将获得最多 6 个学期的奖学金，非全日制学生（至少注册 6 个学期单元）将根据经济需要获得最多 8 个学期的奖学金 FRC 是一所位于农村和偏远地区的小型社区学院。该项目旨在提高农村 STEM 学生与城市同龄人的平等，因为他们进入并从 FRC 的科学副学士学位课程毕业，以便在 STEM 领域垂直转学或加入政府组织或行业。 STEM 能力。重要的是，农村社区学院是美国社区学院中增长最快的部门，因此是影响 STEM 劳动力发展的最大机会之一。该项目由引导路径模型构建，旨在利用技术来建设。无需出差即可到达县外的 STEM 身份，并在学生进入农村 STEM 渠道时为他们提供更全面的支持 作为一所小型、农村和地理位置偏远的社区学院，该项目具有成为推进模式的巨大潜力。了解如何有效和高效地支持农村 STEM 学生在农村 STEM 学习中的发展。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生的 STEM 学位完成率。该项目的范围旨在提高学生对 STEM 的坚持。通过将奖学金与以下三个目标和干预措施联系起来：(1) 通过机构 STEM 工作组招募、留住和支持 FRC STEM 学生 (2) 通过在线 STEM 成功和强化课程提高 STEM 身份并持续参与 STEM。将以有效且高效的方式将 STEM 科学家及其科学带到 FRC，这两个目标将得到 STEM 在线主动学习办公时间的支持，这将 (3) 让学生在时间灵活的环境中提高学生的参与度和学习能力。该项目由一名嵌入式教育研究人员支持，其目标是加深对农村 STEM 学生面临的障碍的了解，以及如何减轻这些障碍，以增加农村 STEM 人才队伍的保留率，从而对 STEM 劳动力发展产生积极影响。稳健、迭代的项目评估方法将确保满足并根据需要修改项目目标，以解决影响农村 STEM 学生成功和保留的障碍 该项目的实施和结果应引起对农村社区和 STEM 感兴趣的各种高等教育利益相关者的兴趣。传播将针对广泛的受众，包括但不限于教育研究人员、政策制定者和转移机构，以最大限度地提高该项目的知名度。该项目由国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和领域奖学金资助。数学课程，寻求增加获得 STEM 领域学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并产生有关学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术的知识。 /低收入学生的职业道路。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。