PROSTARS: PROgrams in STEM Academic Retention and Success

PROSTARS：STEM 学术保留和成功项目

• 批准号: 0622541
• 负责人: Bennett Goldberg
• 金额: $ 164.34万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0622541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PROSTARS; PROgrams; STEM; Academic; Retention

The project's goal is to reduce STEM attrition by 20%, leading to 75 additional graduates per year. The investigators are building regression models to determine the major predictors of success and the key indicators of attrition and then using the results to guide their program. They are developing a multi-tiered programmatic approach to the retention of students in the STEM disciplines by: (1) performing a complete data analysis of their student data, (2) developing and teaching first-year seminars on study tools and science exploration, (3) developing and running a summer bridge program to prepare entering students for success, (4) funding research experience for underserved STEM students during the summer between their first and second years, (5) extending STEM research opportunities to students at three local community colleges, viz. Roxbury Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, and Massachusetts Bay Community College, (6) building elements of a women in science and engineering program that supports the retention of undergraduate women, and (7) working with the Center for Teaching Excellence on faculty training and development workshops focused on curricular materials and on visitor seminar programs to address gender-bias and ineffective modes of instruction in STEM courses. Finally, these coordinated efforts are being monitored through a comprehensive evaluation effort conducted by an outside consultant who is using surveys, interviews, focus groups, and classroom observation. The broader impacts include special programs for underserved students, that is students from large urban public high schools, women, and at-risk students, all of whom have higher than average attrition rates.

该项目的目标是将STEM的自然流失率降低20%，从而每年增加75名毕业生。研究人员正在建立回归模型，以确定成功的主要预测因素和自然减员的关键指标，然后使用结果来指导他们的计划。他们正在开发一种多层次的方案方法，通过以下方式留住STEM专业的学生：(1)对其学生数据进行完整的数据分析，(2)开发和教授关于学习工具和科学探索的一年级研讨会，(3)开发和运行夏季桥梁计划，为成功入学的学生做准备，(4)在一年级和二年级之间的暑期为服务不足的STEM学生提供研究经验，(5)将STEM研究机会扩大到三所当地社区学院的学生，即。与罗克斯伯里社区学院、邦克山社区学院和马萨诸塞湾社区学院合作，(6)建立支持留住本科生女性的科学和工程女性计划的要素，以及(7)与卓越教学中心合作举办教师培训和发展研讨会，重点是课程材料和访客研讨会计划，以解决STEM课程中的性别偏见和无效的教学模式。最后，通过一名外部顾问进行的全面评估工作来监督这些协调努力，该顾问使用调查、访谈、重点小组和课堂观察。更广泛的影响包括针对服务不足的学生的特殊计划，即来自大型城市公立高中的学生、女性和处于风险中的学生，他们的流失率都高于平均水平。