NSF STEM Scholarship and Mentoring Program

NSF STEM 奖学金和指导计划

• 批准号: 1060314
• 负责人: Ruth Pflueger
• 金额: $ 59.8万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1060314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; STEM; Scholarship; Mentoring; Program

This project is building upon a prior S-STEM project that had a significant impact on improving STEM enrollments and student diversity, and further improving its effectiveness. Specifically, the project is offering 25 scholarships of $5,200 each per year over a four year period. It is expanding the existing mentoring program, including activities that facilitate career exploration, particularly through a self-selected Experiential Learning Module, where students pursue their interests in academic and career development. It is enhancing the effectiveness of individualized student mentoring through a personalized, data-driven approach based on academic progress, career interests, and predictive information collected at the time of matriculation. Finally, it is developing an online application that determines students' level of interest in STEM fields. This helps select and advise students interested in engineering and science. The project especially recruits women and members of underrepresented groups. The results of this project have intellectual merit, particularly the development of the data-driven approach to mentoring and its ability to predict and improve student success in STEM fields. The assessment data include responses to nationally-normed Assessing Women in Engineering surveys. That allows comparison of data with other institutions and facilitates dissemination of program results. The broader impacts include continued growth of STEM graduates, including underrepresented groups, at the university. They constitute a pool of technical talent for the northwestern Pennsylvania region and beyond. The model developed, the mentoring program, and the data-driven approach to student advising are transferable and adaptable to other institutions.

该项目是建立在以前的S-STEM项目，对提高STEM入学率和学生多样性产生了重大影响，并进一步提高其有效性。具体而言，该项目在四年期间每年提供25个奖学金，每个奖学金5 200美元。它正在扩大现有的辅导方案，包括促进职业探索的活动，特别是通过一个自选的体验式学习模块，让学生追求他们对学术和职业发展的兴趣。它正在通过基于学业进展、职业兴趣和入学时收集的预测信息的个性化数据驱动方法，提高个性化学生辅导的有效性。最后，它正在开发一个在线应用程序，以确定学生对STEM领域的兴趣程度。这有助于选择和建议对工程和科学感兴趣的学生。 该项目特别招聘妇女和代表性不足群体的成员。该项目的成果具有智力价值，特别是数据驱动的指导方法的发展及其预测和提高学生在STEM领域成功的能力。评估数据包括对国家规范的“评估工程领域妇女”调查的答复。这样就可以将数据与其他机构进行比较，并促进方案成果的传播。更广泛的影响包括STEM毕业生的持续增长，包括大学中代表性不足的群体。他们构成了宾夕法尼亚州西北部地区及其他地区的技术人才库。开发的模型，指导计划和数据驱动的学生咨询方法可以转移和适应其他机构。