Ensuring Early Mathematics Success for STEM Majors

确保 STEM 专业学生早期数学取得成功

• 批准号: 1161113
• 负责人: Frederick Driscoll
• 金额: $ 49.91万
• 依托单位: Wentworth Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1161113&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ensuring; Early; Mathematics; Success; STEM

The Ensuring Early Mathematics Success for STEM Majors (EEMS) initiative integrates academic support and intervention services to increase graduation rates among 1) STEM majors who transfer from other institutions, 2) incoming freshmen at risk of failing first-year mathematics courses, and 3) students in the general population who underperform in first-year and subsequent mathematics courses. In order to improve student performance and reduce the risk of course failure, attrition, or increased time to degree the EEMS initiative includes summer bridge programs for transferring STEM majors and entering freshman STEM majors at risk of failing first-year mathematics courses and Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) for all STEM majors. The EEMS Initiative seeks to increase persistence rates among the identified at-risk groups to match the current first-year STEM major persistence rate (80.9%), which will produce an increase of at least 66 STEM graduates per year. Underrepresented minority students are overrepresented among these at risk students, suggesting the program will have a proportionally larger impact on retention and graduation rates for this group. In addition to traditional journal and conference venues for dissemination, faculty from institutions in the Urban Massachusetts LSAMP and other interested institutions are invited to observe the program and participate in PLTL workshops.

确保STEM专业早期数学成功(EEM)计划整合了学术支持和干预服务，以提高1)从其他院校转学的STEM专业学生的毕业率，2)面临一年级数学课程不及格风险的新生，以及3)普通人群中在一年级及以后的数学课程中表现不佳的学生。为了改善学生的表现，减少课程不及格、自然减员或增加获得学位的时间，EMMS计划包括为转学STEM专业和进入有可能不及格的一年级数学课程的新生STEM专业提供暑期过渡计划，以及为所有STEM专业的学生提供同行指导的团队学习(PLTL)。EEM计划旨在提高已确定的高危群体的持久率，以达到目前STEM专业第一年的持久率(80.9%)，这将使每年至少增加66名STEM毕业生。在这些高危学生中，代表不足的少数族裔学生比例过高，这表明该项目将对这一群体的保留率和毕业率产生更大的比例影响。除了传统的期刊和会议传播场所外，马萨诸塞州城市LSAMP机构和其他感兴趣的机构的教师也被邀请观察该项目并参加PLTL研讨会。