THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AT CAYEY METAS+ : Maintaining, Engaging, and Tracking Alumni in Science and Health Research

波多黎各大学凯伊梅塔斯分校：维持、吸引和跟踪科学与健康研究领域的校友

• 批准号: 10254393
• 负责人: Jose Caraballo
• 金额: $ 31.04万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PR CAYEY UNIVERSITY COLL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-04 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10254393
• 关键词: Address; African American student; Anthropology; Area; Asians; Award; Bachelor' s Degree; Characteristics; Collaborations; Control Groups; Data Science; Degree Completion; Doctor of Philosophy; Economics; Education; Educational Intervention; Effectiveness; Enrollment; Ensure; Experimental Designs; Goals; Graduate Education; Graduate Enrollment; Health; Hispanic-serving Institution; Intervention; Latino; Life; Mentors; Methods; Minority-Serving Institution; Natural Sciences; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Population; Positioning Attribute; Principal Investigator; Professional counselor; Psychological reinforcement; Psychology; Puerto Rico; Randomized; Research; Research Design; Sample Size; Schools; Science; Scientist; Selection Bias; Service Statistics; Social Sciences; Statistical Methods; Student Persistence; Students; Testing; Training; Universities; college; cost effective intervention; design; effectiveness testing; efficacy testing; evidence base; experience; experimental group; improved; innovation; minority undergraduate; programs; satisfaction; skills; sociodemographics; undergraduate research; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

Despite significant advances to diversify the biomedical workforce, the proportion of Ph.D. degrees awarded to Latinos is still 7% and only 48% of those who enroll in a doctorate program complete their degree. The project METAS+ (Maintaining, Engaging, and Tracking Alumni in Science and Health Research; also GOALS+ in Spanish) seeks to diversify the biomedical workforce by testing, with well-designed scientific approaches, the efficacy of training interventions that can equip Latino undergraduates to successfully transition to biomedical graduate programs. The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR-C) is ideally positioned to address this challenge because its student population is 100% Latino. Approximately 300 UPR-C students engaged in UGR yearly and most seek to pursue graduate studies in STEM or biomedical areas. METAS+ seeks to test the effectiveness of 1) previous mentored UGR experiences provided at UPR-C and 2) an innovative on campus and on-line group coaching intervention that is envisioned as a reinforcement to such UGR experiences. Results will be assessed at three stages of a student’s pathway into science: 1) college graduation, 2) enrollment in a biomedical graduate program and 3) the first year of graduate school; something not done previously. To achieve robustness in the analysis, we will use Propensity Score Matching, a statistical method that mimics experimental approaches and controls for self-selection-bias by identifying and matching Latinos with similar socio-demographic and academic characteristics who only differ in the treatment variable (UGR). To test the efficacy of the new coaching reinforcement, we will use an experimental design by randomly assigning 80 students to a control group (no intervention) and an experimental group (coaching). In the long-term, the project is expected to reveal the benefit of evidenced-based sustainable interventions that can cast a broad net of participants at Minority Serving Institutions to truly diversify the scientific workforce.

尽管在生物医学劳动力多元化方面取得了重大进展，但授予博士学位的比例仍然很高。 拉丁裔仍占 7%，而攻读博士学位的人中只有 48% 完成了该项目的学位。 METAS+（在科学和健康研究中维护、吸引和跟踪校友；还有 GOALS+ 西班牙语）旨在通过精心设计的科学方法测试生物医学劳动力的多元化 培训干预措施的有效性，可以使拉丁裔本科生成功过渡到生物医学 波多黎各大学凯伊分校 (UPR-C) 非常适合解决这个问题。 挑战，因为其学生人口 100% 是拉丁裔，大约 300 名 UPR-C 学生参与其中。 UGR 每年都会寻求 STEM 或生物医学领域的研究生学习，寻求测试。 1) 之前在 UPR-C 上提​​供的指导性 UGR 经验的有效性，以及 2) 创新性的 校园和在线团体辅导干预，旨在加强此类 UGR 将在学生进入科学之路的三个阶段评估结果：1）大学。 毕业，2）生物医学研究生课程的入学和3）研究生院的第一年； 为了分析的稳健性，我们将使用倾向得分匹配，这是一种统计方法。 通过识别和匹配来模仿实验方法和控制自选择偏差的方法 具有相似社会人口和学术特征的拉美裔人，仅在治疗变量上有所不同 （UGR）。为了测试新的辅导强化的有效性，我们将使用以下实验设计： 随机将 80 名学生分配到对照组（无干预）和实验组（辅导）。 从长远来看，该项目预计将揭示基于证据的可持续干预措施的好处， 可以在少数族裔服务机构中建立广泛的参与者网络，从而真正实现科学劳动力的多元化。