Undergraduate Catalytic Outreach and Research Experience

本科催化推广和研究经验

• 批准号: 0622620
• 负责人: Dean Livelybrooks
• 金额: $ 199.84万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 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 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0622620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Catalytic; Outreach; Research; Experience

By creating a seamless transition between Oregon high schools, community colleges, and universities, this project is establishing a model for improving the recruitment, transfer, and retention rates of students along that spectrum of educational levels, eventually leading to baccalaureate STEM degrees. Key elements include: early identification of community college and university students with interest in STEM fields; provision of intensive week-long camps and 10-week research projects in the summer; and training in education outreach, peer-led tutoring, academic and career-path mentoring. Following these activities students serve as peer tutors at their home institutions (both community colleges and universities) during the next academic year under the supervision of graduate student and faculty mentors. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the immersion of students in early research experiences - with a special focus on community college students from diverse, non-traditional backgrounds - in order to improve completion rates of physical sciences-related transfer associate degrees, and to boost the numbers who transfer to four-year institutions and complete baccalaureate degrees in these areas. It also tests models for catalytic peer- and near-peer mentoring and tutoring at community colleges and high schools to increase interest in physical sciences and related careers. The project's broader impacts are felt in its targeting of community colleges that have the most diverse group of students engaged in post-secondary education in the state. Through the project's design students from diverse backgrounds are able to mentor, tutor, and otherwise encourage their peers to successfully complete coursework and move into physical sciences careers. Evaluation of the project is providing valuable and needed data to the educational and political leadership in the state as it seeks to improving transitions between high school, community college and four-year institutions.

通过在俄勒冈州高中、社区学院和大学之间建立无缝过渡，该项目正在建立一个模型，以提高学生沿着教育水平的招聘、转学和保留率，最终获得学士学位STEM学位。关键要素包括：早期识别对STEM领域感兴趣的社区学院和大学学生;在夏季提供为期一周的密集营和10周的研究项目;以及教育推广、同行辅导、学术和职业道路辅导方面的培训。在这些活动之后，学生在研究生和教师导师的监督下，在下一学年在他们的家乡机构（社区学院和大学）担任同侪导师。该项目的智力价值在于让学生沉浸在早期的研究经验中-特别关注来自不同非传统背景的社区大学学生-以提高物理科学相关转学副学士学位的完成率，并提高转学到四年制院校并完成这些领域学士学位的人数。它还测试了社区大学和高中的催化性同伴和近同伴指导和辅导模式，以增加对物理科学和相关职业的兴趣。该项目更广泛的影响体现在其针对社区学院，这些学院拥有该州从事中学后教育的最多样化的学生群体。通过该项目的设计，来自不同背景的学生能够指导，辅导，并以其他方式鼓励他们的同龄人成功完成课程并进入物理科学职业生涯。对该项目的评估为该州的教育和政治领导提供了宝贵和必要的数据，因为它试图改善高中、社区学院和四年制院校之间的过渡。