The Intersection of Science Identity and Success for Low-Income, Academically-Talented Students

低收入、学术天才学生的科学认同与成功的交叉点

• 批准号: 2130256
• 负责人: Charles Lane
• 金额: $ 74.99万
• 依托单位: Berry College
• 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: 2022-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Intersection; Science; Identity; Success; Low

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 Berry College in Georgia. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to twenty-one (21) high-achieving, low-income undergraduate STEM majors in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. In addition to financial support, the project will provide curricular and co-curricular support through student centered efforts, building community, and fostering student collaboration. In line with this, the project will implement myriad activities and opportunities, including a summer bridge program for matriculating students, field trips, student participation at conferences and scientific meetings, small group faculty mentoring, and the inclusion of career-exploration ventures. Individual support mechanisms will include: engaging parents and guardians in their students' academic journeys, plus individual mentoring by faculty, staff, peers, and STEM professionals. Additional mechanisms involve providing the availability of STEM research experiences and proactively advising students for enrollment in extant introductory courses that engage-students in active learning pedagogies. Project investigators will disseminate outcomes and findings using national venues, while, at the same time, targeting other small, liberal-arts colleges lacking robust strategical programs to provide support to low-income, highly talented STEM students.The primary goal of this Berry College project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Specific objectives include closing gaps for STEM students in unmet financial need and diminishing - eliminating when possible - other challenges and barriers to persistence to a STEM undergraduate degree, and enhancing existing support infrastructure, while creating new student support structures. Additionally, the project team intends to use extant research on STEM interventions as a theoretical grounding for choices of project components. In particular, the project will base its activities on findings that student-centeredness, community building, and collaboration are integral to effective administration of interventions for STEM students. Insights and outcomes from rigorous mixed methods project evaluation will generate new knowledge on which aspects of support interventions, or combination of interventions, are most effective for retention, engagement, commitment, self-efficacy, feeling of belonging, academic performance, and overall success of students. The lines of investigation will address gaps in the literature and inform other higher education professionals seeking to support students with a combination of curricular and co-curricular interventions, especially for students in liberal arts institutions in rural settings who are underrepresented in their participation in STEM courses of study. 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.

该项目将在六年内支持有经济需要的成绩优异、低收入的学生在佐治亚州贝里学院的保留和毕业，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。在此期间，该项目将为二十一（21）名生物化学、生物学、化学、数学和物理专业的高成就、低收入本科生提供奖学金。除了财政支持外，该项目还将提供课程。为此，该项目将实施大量的活动和机会，包括为学生入学、实地考察、学生参加会议和科学活动提供的夏季桥梁计划。会议、小组教师指导以及个人支持机制将包括：让家长和监护人参与学生的学术旅程，以及教师、工作人员、同行和 STEM 专业人士的个人指导。提供可用性STEM 研究经验并主动建议学生报名现有的入门课程，让学生参与主动学习教学法，项目研究人员将利用国家场所传播成果和发现，同时针对其他缺乏强大实力的小型文理学院。战略计划，为低收入、高素质的 STEM 学生提供支持。贝瑞学院项目的主要目标是提高具有明确经济需求的低收入、高成就本科生的 STEM 学位完成率。包括缩小 STEM 学生未满足的财务需求的差距，并减少（尽可能消除）坚持获得 STEM 本科学位的其他挑战和障碍，以及加强现有的支持基础设施，同时创建新的学生支持结构。此外，项目团队打算使用。特别是，该项目的活动将基于以下发现：以学生为中心、社区建设和协作是有效管理 STEM 学生干预措施的组成部分。来自严格的混合方法项目评估将产生新的知识，了解支持干预措施或干预措施组合的哪些方面对学生的保留、参与、承诺、自我效能、归属感、学业表现和整体成功最有效。调查路线将解决差距。文献中的内容，并为其他寻求通过课程和课外干预相结合的方式支持学生的高等教育专业人士提供信息，特别是针对农村地区文科院校的学生，这些学生在 STEM 课程学习中的参与人数不足。通过 NSF 奖学金科学、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。有关低收入学生的学业成功、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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。