HSI Pilot Project:Diversificadas y Valientes (DIVAS) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Environments

HSI 试点项目：科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 环境中的多元化 (DIVAS)

• 批准号: 2318308
• 负责人: Josee Vedrine-Pauleus
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico at Humacao
• 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: 2023-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Diversificadas; Valientes

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to increase the self-efficacy of Latina STEM Students. Even though Latinas account for 9% of the United States population and have enormous contributions to the country's labor force, studies exploring their potential in STEM-related fields are limited. More importantly, interventions to tackle the gendered social norms that Latinas encounter to follow STEM careers with a focus on measuring their self-efficacy in mathematics, are basically non-existent. To fill this gap, the project proposes to scale up a prior intervention study focused on female STEM undergraduate Latinas that demonstrated that online mentoring and social networking increased their self-efficacy, motivation, and intentions to persist.To tackle the low numbers of Latinas in STEM the project aims to (1) study in-depth the STEM female undergraduate students’ self-efficacy levels, focusing on their math self-efficacy across the curriculum; (2) create a hybrid community including mentoring sessions and mentor-mentee groups to connect professionals and undergraduate students across STEM fields through a network of higher education institutions; and (3) create an online toolbox/website for empowering Latinas. The framework for this project design is Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory (SCT) which demonstrates the reciprocal connection of human cognition, behavior, and environment to determine the ability to self-beliefs when performing tasks and activities. The project will determine key principles that positively impact the perception of females' role, knowledge, and experience in STEM academic and professional pathways with a strong emphasis on what works to increase the mathematics competencies of our students. This will be a living experiment where the DIVAS community will support each other and strengthen the Latinas' participation in HSIs. The project will directly train 90 DIVAS and impact more than 1,000 Latinas via the utilization of the website/ toolbox. 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 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.

在改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1项目旨在提高拉丁裔STEM学生的自我效能。即使拉丁裔占美国人口的9％，并对该国的劳动力贡献了巨大的贡献，但研究探讨了其在与STEM相关的领域的潜力。更重要的是，解决拉丁裔遇到的性别社会规范的干预措施基本上不存在。 To fill this gap, the project proposals to scale up a prior intervention study focused on female STEM undergraduate Latinas that demonstrated that online mentaling and social networking increased their self-efficacy, motivation, and intentions to persist.To tackle the low numbers of Latinas in STEM the project aims to (1) study in-depth the STEM female undergraduate students’ self-efficacy levels, focusing on their math self-efficacy across the curriculum; （2）创建一个混合社区，包括心理课程和心理群体小组，通过高等教育机构网络将跨STEM领域的专业人员和本科生联系起来； （3）创建一个在线工具箱/网站，以授权拉丁裔。该项目设计的框架是班杜拉（Bandura，1986）的社会认知理论（SCT），它证明了人类认知，行为和环境的相互联系，以确定执行任务和活动时的自我信仰能力。该项目将确定关键原则，从而积极影响女性在STEM学术和专业途径中的作用，知识和经验的看法，并强调提高学生数学能力的努力。这将是一个活生生的实验，Divas社区将互相支持并加强拉丁裔参与HSIS。该项目将直接训练90个DIVA，并通过网站/工具箱的利用来影响1000多个拉丁裔。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为是值得的支持。