Families for STEM success

STEM 成功的家庭

• 批准号: 10037910
• 负责人: Anna Woodcock
• 金额: $ 29.26万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10037910
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; African American; Attitude; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical Research; Buffers; Career Choice; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Drops; Early Intervention; Education; Educational workshop; Equilibrium; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic group; Expectancy; Family; Feeling; Fostering; Geography; Goals; Hispanics; Home environment; Identity Crisis; Institutes; Intention; Intervention; Knowledge; Measures; Mediating; Outcome; Parents; Performance; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Schools; Science; Scientist; Series; Signal Transduction; Social Environment; Student Persistence; Students; Testing; Time; Work; academic preparation; career; cohort; college; design; doctoral student; ethnic identity; experience; health disparity; innovation; interest; intervention program; longitudinal design; programs; psychosocial; racial and ethnic; recruit; retention rate; success; theories; therapy design; undergraduate student; university student

Behavioral science research has firmly established that developing an identity as a scientist is a strong predictor of persistence on the scientific research career path, yet little is known about how LatinX science majors balance their scientific and ethnic identities and how parental support could foster identity balance. The long-term goal is to understand the impact of balancing science and ethnic identities on attrition from the biomedical science career pipeline, and to test the utility of an intervention designed to foster identity balance. The proposed research employs a quasi-experimental, matched control, longitudinal design, to measure the impact of an intervention program with parents of incoming LatinX biomedical science majors. The specific aims are: 1) to measure the immediate impact of the workshop on LatinX parents’ knowledge of and attitudes about science, the value of a science degree, and the compatibility between scientific research and LatinX heritage. 2) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on the short and long- term academic persistence and success of LatinX biomedical science students. 3) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on students’ science identity across time, and the balance between their science and LatinX identities, and 4) to assess the degree to which the effects of the parental intervention on short and longer-term academic outcomes are mediated through scientific-LatinX identity balance. Biomedical discoveries and public health clearly benefit from a diverse biomedical workforce. LatinX parents are a largely untapped, and potentially powerful, resource for decreasing LatinX student flight from the biomedical science career path. The research proposed in this application is innovative because balanced identity design offers a new theoretical approach to understanding how students navigate and balance multiple identities to maintain a strong identity as a scientific researcher. An early intervention with parents has the potential to alter students’ social context to support identity balance. This project is significant because it will provide a theory-driven rigorous empirical understanding how parental education and support can help LatinX biomedical science students achieve academically and balance a strong LatinX identity with an emerging science identity. This parent intervention programs could significantly increase the pool of qualified LatinX doctoral program applicants in less than a decade. A larger pool of diverse and qualified doctoral students has the potential to increase the diversity of the biomedical science workforce by 2040.

行为科学研究已经证实，培养科学家的身份是一个强有力的条件 科学研究职业道路上持久性的预测因素，但人们对 LatinX 如何实现知之甚少 科学专业的学生平衡他们的科学和种族身份，以及父母的支持如何培养身份 长期目标是了解平衡科学和种族身份对平衡的影响。 生物医学科学职业渠道的流失，并测试旨在 促进身份平衡。 本研究采用准实验、匹配控制、纵向设计来测量 与即将入学的拉丁裔生物医学科学专业的家长进行干预计划的影响。 具体目标是： 1) 衡量研讨会对拉丁裔家长了解的直接影响 对科学的态度、科学学位的价值以及科学之间的兼容性 研究和拉丁裔遗产2）衡量父母干预对短期和长期的影响。 3) 衡量拉丁生物医学科学学生的学期学业坚持和成功的影响。 家长对学生科学认同的长期干预，以及他们的科学之间的平衡 和拉丁身份，4）评估父母干预对短期行为的影响程度 长期的学术成果是通过科学与拉丁身份的平衡来调节的。 生物医学的发现和公共卫生显然受益于多元化的拉丁裔生物医学劳动力。 家长是减少拉丁裔学生流失的一个很大程度上尚未开发且具有潜在强大资源的资源 从生物医学科学的职业道路来看，本申请提出的研究具有创新性，因为。 身份平衡设计提供了一种新的理论方法来理解学生如何导航和 平衡多重身份以保持作为一名科学研究人员的强烈身份早期干预。 与家长的合作有可能改变学生的社会背景以支持身份平衡。 意义重大，因为它将提供理论驱动的严格实证理解父母如何 教育和支持可以帮助拉丁生物医学科学学生取得学业成就并平衡 强烈的拉丁裔身份与新兴的科学身份可以通过这种家长干预计划来实现。 在不到十年的时间内显着增加了合格的拉丁博士课程申请人的数量。 更多的多样化且合格的博士生群体有潜力增加研究的多样性 到 2040 年生物医学科学劳动力。