Collaborative Research: Research Initiation: Factors Affecting Latina Engineering Student Decisions to Enter Graduate School or Engineering Career Pathways

合作研究：研究启动：影响拉丁裔工程学生决定进入研究生院或工程职业道路的因素

• 批准号: 2306262
• 负责人: Bruce Carroll
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306262&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Initiation; Factors; Affecting

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving understanding of the social, cultural, educational, and institutional parameters affecting matriculation of Latina engineering students into graduate engineering programs. The work will improve understanding of the complex psycho-social processes contributing to the persistent underrepresentation of Latinx and Hispanic students across STEM fields and the existence of a gender gap that is larger than found in the general population. Latinx and Hispanic students in STEM come from the fastest growing ethnic minority in the United States. However, they are extremely underrepresented in terms of STEM degrees, especially at the graduate level. This research helps correct this situation, by providing critically needed insights to draw more Latina students into STEM graduate programs and eventually into the professorial ranks.This project will improve understanding of the complex factors affecting the career decisions of Latina engineering students and their likelihood to enter graduate engineering study. Two research questions are posed: RQ1: How do Latina engineering students describe the factors related to their decision, decision processes, or intentions to enter graduate school and/or engineering career pathways? RQ2: How do Latina engineering students describe the social, cultural, educational, and institutional experiences that impact their decision, decision process, or intentions to enter graduate school and/or engineering career pathways? An explanatory sequential mixed methods approach will be employed. Phase 1 is quantitative with an emphasis on institutional integration using the modified Collegiate Achievement Model. Results from phase 1 are used to inform the qualitative phase 2 which shifts the theoretical framework to the Community Cultural Wealth Model to center the complexities and assets of the participants’ lived experiences. This is done specifically to provide broader, richer insights into both the institutional integration issues and the cultural and social perspectives behind the factors and experiences impacting Latina engineering student graduate study and career pathway decisions.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.

该项目旨在通过提高对影响拉丁裔工程学生矩阵的社会，文化，教育和机构参数的理解来服务于国家的利益。这项工作将提高人们对复杂的心理社会过程的理解，这些过程导致跨STEM领域的拉丁裔和西班牙裔学生的持续代表性不足以及性别差距的存在，而性别差距的存在比一般人群中发现的要大。 STEM中的拉丁裔和西班牙裔学生来自美国增长最快的少数民族。但是，在茎学位上，它们的人数极低，尤其是在研究生水平上。这项研究通过提供急需的见解来帮助纠正这种情况，以吸引更多的拉丁裔学生参加STEM研究生课程，并最终进入专业排名。该项目将提高对影响拉丁裔工程学生职业决策的复杂因素及其进入研究生工程研究的可能性的复杂因素。两个研究问题定位：RQ1：拉丁裔工程专业的学生如何描述与他们的决策，决策过程或进入研究生院和/或工程职业途径有关的因素？ RQ2：拉丁裔工程专业的学生如何描述影响其决策，决策过程或进入研究生院和/或工程职业途径的社会，文化，教育和机构经验？将雇用一种利用顺序混合方法方法。第1阶段是定量的，强调使用修改后的大学成就模型对制度一体化。第1阶段的结果用于告知定性第2阶段，该阶段将理论框架转移到社区文化财富模型中，以中心参与者的现场经验的复杂性和资产。这是为了提供广播公司，更丰富的见解，对制度整合问题以及影响拉丁裔工程学生研究生学习和职业途径决策的因素和经验背后的文化和社会观点。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的范围来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为珍贵的支持。