HSI Planning Project: Shifting perspectives about why women of color are underrepresented in biology: the role of intersectional identities

HSI 规划项目：转变关于为什么有色人种女性在生物学中代表性不足的观点：交叉身份的作用

• 批准号: 2225241
• 负责人: Leticia Marquez-Magana
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: San Francisco State University
• 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: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Shifting; perspectives

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 Planning Project aims to better understand the reasons women of color majoring in biology at San Francisco State University (SF State) leave their major. While women are well represented in the field of biology, women of color remain underrepresented. This underrepresentation both limits the career advancement of women of color in the life sciences, and the unrealized benefit to science by inclusion of their unique perspectives and skills in the biological sciences workforce. This planning project seeks to identify the barriers and facilitators for women of color in biology, using critical information gathered in this project. A smartphone application will be used to capture information about the day-to-day experiences of women in the biology department at SF State, who are highly diverse. Detailed information about these experiences will be gained by conducting informational interviews with a subset of the women of color who contributed information about their day-to-day experiences via the smartphone app. This planning project will help to elucidate the complexities encountered by women of color who hold intersectional identities in biology to develop an evidence-based interventions to further supports their valuable advancement in the life sciences.The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project achieves these overarching goals by generating new knowledge about the complexities experienced by undergraduate women of color in biology at SF State, an HSI. These experiences remain largely unidentified and have not been investigated using asset-based or intersectional lenses. These lenses will be used to analyze data about the microaffirmations and microaggressions experienced by undergraduate women of color in biology at SF State collected through use of the MA2 smartphone application. Responses from 600 participants will be collected to document quantitative and qualitative results. To validate the qualitative results, 20 informational interviews will be conducted (i.e., respondent validation) to better understand the factors (behaviors, norms, values, social environment) that facilitate persistence in biology for women of color. This new knowledge will be used to design an asset-based intervention that improves persistence of women of color having intersectional identities in the life sciences. Overall, the funded planning project will provide women of color with the opportunity to share their experiences in biology from their own perspective to authentically inform an intervention focused on faculty development and improved pedagogical practice that is culturally-responsive. Dissemination of the findings will contribute to efforts at institutions across the country to enable the persistence women.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，这一轨道 1 规划项目旨在更好地了解旧金山州立大学（SF 州立）生物学专业的有色人种女性离开专业的原因。虽然女性在生物学领域的代表性很高，但有色人种女性的代表性仍然不足。这种代表性不足既限制了有色人种女性在生命科学领域的职业发展，也限制了将她们独特的观点和技能纳入生物科学劳动力中而给科学带来的未实现的好处。该规划项目旨在利用该项目中收集的关键信息来确定有色人种女性在生物学方面的障碍和促进因素。智能手机应用程序将用于捕获旧金山州立大学生物系女性高度多样化的日常经历信息。有关这些经历的详细信息将通过对一部分有色人种女性进行信息采访来获得，这些女性通过智能手机应用程序提供了有关她们日常经历的信息。 该规划项目将有助于阐明在生物学领域拥有交叉身份的有色人种女性所遇到的复杂性，以制定循证干预措施，进一步支持她们在生命科学领域的宝贵进步。HSI 计划旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育和能力建设在恒指。 HSI 计划支持的项目还将产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。该项目通过产生关于旧金山州立大学（HSI）生物学专业有色人种女性本科生所经历的复杂性的新知识来实现​​这些总体目标。这些经历在很大程度上仍然未知，也没有使用基于资产或交叉的视角进行调查。这些镜头将用于分析旧金山州立大学生物学专业有色人种女本科生通过使用 MA2 智能手机应用程序收集的微肯定和微侵犯数据。将收集 600 名参与者的反馈来记录定量和定性结果。为了验证定性结果，将进行 20 次信息访谈（即受访者验证），以更好地了解促进有色人种女性坚持生物学的因素（行为、规范、价值观、社会环境）。这些新知识将用于设计基于资产的干预措施，以提高有色人种女性在生命科学领域拥有交叉身份的毅力。总体而言，资助的规划项目将为有色人种女性提供机会，从她们自己的角度分享她们在生物学方面的经验，以真实地为重点关注教师发展和改进文化响应的教学实践的干预措施提供信息。研究结果的传播将有助于全国各地的机构努力帮助女性坚持不懈。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。