Pathways to the Geosciences Summer High School Program: A Ten-Year Evaluation
Pathways to the Geosciences Summer High School Program: A Ten-Year Evaluation
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通往地球科学暑期高中课程的途径：十年评估
DOI：
10.5408/15-088.1
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
A. Velasco
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作者：
T. Carrick;K. Miller;E. Hagedorn;B. Smith‐Konter;A. Velasco
摘要劳动力对科学家和工程师的高需求意味着需要更多的策略来提高学生在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）专业的完成率。挑战在于寻找和制定有效的战略，以增加学生完成STEM学位，并招募学生到这些学科，特别是那些来自代表性不足的少数群体。本文介绍了从10年的数据收集在为期2周的暑期课程，高中学生在地球科学针对西班牙裔美国人的起源在得克萨斯州埃尔帕索的参与者的结果。该计划的短期目标是向学生介绍地球科学，并告知他们地球科学作为大学专业和职业选择的可能性。长期目标是形成一个管道，从夏季计划到本科和研究生课程在得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校。短期指标显示，学生对科学和地球科学的态度在该计划的过程中发生了统计上显着的积极变化。长期指标显示，55%的参与者在大学进入STEM专业，20%的人在大学里是或曾经是地球科学专业。相比之下，全国只有9%的地球科学学士学位毕业生来自代表性不足的少数民族。这些结果表明，地球科学夏季高中课程可以对增加选择地球科学作为职业的代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量产生重大影响。
ABSTRACT The high demand for scientists and engineers in the workforce means that there is a continuing need for more strategies to increase student completion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. The challenge lies in finding and enacting effective strategies to increase students' completion of STEM degrees and in recruiting students to these disciplines, especially those from underrepresented minority groups. This article presents results from 10 years of data from collected during a 2-week summer program for high school students in geosciences targeted at participants of Hispanic American origin in El Paso, Texas. The short-term goal of the program was to introduce the students to the geosciences and to inform them of the possibilities of the geosciences as a college major and career choice. The long-term goal was to form a pipeline from the summer program to undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Texas at El Paso. Short-term indicators show statistically significant positive changes in student attitudes towards science and the geosciences over the course of the program. Long-term indicators show that 55% of the participants entered STEM majors in college and that 20% either are or were geoscience majors in college. By comparison, nationally only 9% of geoscience bachelor's degree graduates are from underrepresented minorities. These results suggests that summer high school programs in the geosciences can have a significant impact on increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who choose the geosciences for a career.