Evaluation of STRONG-CT: A Program Supporting Minority and First-Generation U.S. Science Students.
Evaluation of STRONG-CT: A Program Supporting Minority and First-Generation U.S. Science Students.
复制标题
STRONG-CT 评估：支持少数族裔和第一代美国理科学生的计划。
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2014
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Melissa Philion
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Alyssa K. McGonagle;H. Freake;S. Zinn;Timothy J Bauerle;Jeffrey Winston;Gary J. Lewicki;Marcia Jehnings;D. Khan;Melissa Philion
强CT（康涅狄格州科学技术接触新一代）联盟旨在通过增加康涅狄格州三所社区学院（曼彻斯特、Quinebaug Valley、Three Rivers）和康涅狄格大学生命科学专业历史上代表性不足的（第一代和种族/少数民族）学生的入学率、保留率和毕业率，使康涅狄格州（美国）的STEM学术和商业社区多样化。STRONG-CT联盟致力于帮助留住理科专业的STRONG-CT学生，帮助参与社区学院的学生完成课程并转学到康涅狄格大学攻读理科学位，并帮助康涅狄格大学的STRONG-CT学生毕业于STEM学科。参与STRONG-CT的四个机构分布在农村和城市，分布在该州人口相对较少、不太富裕的角落。为了实现其目标，强CT支持生命科学专业的学生在学术，社会和职业方面。在学术方面，强CT计划提供咨询和学术支持，以帮助缓解过渡到两年制社区学院或四年制大学，并从两年制转移到四年制机构。该计划还赞助丰富课程，以建立社区意识，提高基础科学，时间管理和学习技能，通过化学，生物学，物理学和数学的个别辅导提供学术支持，并提供研究机会。该计划通过与STEM领域的资深学生和专业人士提供指导关系，并举办活动，让学生接触STEM领域，并与STEM研究人员和从业者建立联系，帮助学生在社会和职业方面取得成功。此外，STRONG-CT赞助关于简历写作和面试技巧的专业发展研讨会，并通过每学期300美元的书本津贴为学生提供经济支持。本研究的目的是评价STRONG-CT计划迄今为止在实现其目标方面的成功。作为该项目评估的一部分，我们将STRONG-CT的学生与对照组的学生进行了平均比较，a）理论上受STRONG-CT支持影响的几个心理变量，B）学业成绩（GPA）和c）毕业率。此外，我们还研究了项目成员资格对社区学院学生转学到康涅狄格大学的可能性、学习成绩（GPA）和STEM毕业率的影响。我们开始讨论相关的心理学文献和假设，其次是关于学业成绩，毕业率和转学生的成功的假设。
The STRONG-CT (Science Technology Reaching Out to New Generations in Connecticut) alliance seeks to diversify the STEM academic and business communities in Connecticut (United States) through increasing enrollment, retention and graduation of historically underrepresented (first generation and racial/ethnic minority) students in the life sciences at three Connecticut community colleges (Manchester, Quinebaug Valley, Three Rivers) and the University of Connecticut. The STRONG-CT alliance strives to help retain STRONG-CT students in science majors, help students from the participating community colleges complete their programs and transfer to the University of Connecticut to pursue science degrees, and help STRONG-CT students from the University of Connecticut graduate in a STEM discipline. The four institutions involved with STRONG-CT are in both rural and urban settings, spread across a relatively less-populated, less-affluent corner of the state. To achieve its objectives, STRONG-CT supports life-science students academically, socially and career-wise. In terms of academics, the STRONG-CT program provides advising and academic support to help ease the transition into a two-year community college or a four-year university and the transfer from a two to a four-year institution. The program also sponsors enrichment courses to build a sense of community and enhance basic science, time management and study skills, provides academic support through individual tutoring in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Mathematics, and provides research opportunities. The program helps students socially and career-wise by providing mentoring relationships with veteran students and professionals in STEM fields and hosting events to expose students to STEM fields and networking opportunities with STEM researchers and practitioners. Moreover, STRONG-CT sponsors professional development workshops on resume writing and interviewing techniques, and provides financial support to students through a $300 book stipend per semester. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the success of the STRONG-CT program in achieving its objectives to date. As part of this program evaluation, we compared students in STRONG-CT, on average, to students in control groups on a) several psychological variables theorized to be affected by the support of STRONG-CT, b) academic performance (GPA), and c) graduation rates. In addition, we examined the effects of program membership on the likelihood of students from the Community College to transfer to the University of Connecticut, academic performance (GPA) and STEM graduation rates. We begin with a discussion of relevant psychological literature and hypotheses, followed by hypotheses about academic performance, graduation rates, and success of transfer students.