Forming Better STEM Career Trajectories: Sustaining and Scaling-Up CAP

形成更好的 STEM 职业轨迹：维持和扩大 CAP

• 批准号: 1316702
• 负责人: Barbara Schneider
• 金额: $ 173.21万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1316702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Forming; Better; STEM; Career; Trajectories

This study investigates the sustainability of the Michigan State University College Ambition Program (CAP) that has been developed with NSF ITEST funding and has demonstrated promise in increasing the number of students who attend postsecondary colleges or universities. The CAP is a whole school high school intervention that promotes a college-going culture in which all students are provided resources that encourage postsecondary attendance with a special emphasis on STEM. CAP is an integrated program including tutoring and mentoring, course counseling and advising, financial aid planning and assistance; and college visits. The modifications for sustainability include moving the CAP functions from the graduate students from the university and the faculty who developed the intervention to high school teachers and preservice teachers. Tutoring would be provided by peers rather than the undergraduate students in previous studies.The CAP research study is a within study experiment using student-level estimates of program effects. In this study, students will be randomlly encouraged to receive CAP services through the use of a targeted "nudge". The nudge is in the spirit of an encouragement design where intention to treat does not precisely coincide with actual treatment due to noncompliance, but the assignment mechanism still provides for variation in the treatment. The nudge experiment is modeled after comparable trials in health care research. The experiment is a type of standard randomized block design, in which students are assigned to treatments within blocks defined as schools. Students are encouraged to use CAP services which include an app that helps them decide which college is the best fit for them. Outcome measures include post secondary matriculation and student motivation and career planning data.This study is intended to examine the efficacy of the CAP program and has the potential to inform practice, policy and research. It is difficult to study whole school interventions, and this study is testing the methodology to detect an effect of the CAP intervention by assigning students randomly to experimental conditions within the intervention. The potential benefits of the study are alternatives to the gold standard randomized controlled study where the school is the unit of assignment and the unit of analysis. Successful findings support the potential for rigorous studies to be conducted with fewer schools in the sample than traditional power analyses indicate.

本研究调查了密歇根州立大学大学抱负计划（CAP）的可持续性，该计划已与NSF ITEST资金开发，并已证明有希望增加就读中学后学院或大学的学生人数。CAP是一项全校高中干预措施，旨在促进大学文化，为所有学生提供资源，鼓励中学后入学，特别强调STEM。CAP是一个综合项目，包括辅导和指导，课程咨询和建议，财政援助计划和援助;和大学访问。可持续性的修改包括将CAP功能从大学的研究生和开发干预措施的教师转移到高中教师和兼职教师。在以往的研究中，辅导将由同伴提供，而不是由本科生提供。CAP研究是一个研究内实验，使用学生水平的估计程序的效果。在这项研究中，学生将被随机鼓励接受CAP服务，通过使用有针对性的“轻推”。这种轻推是一种鼓励设计的精神，在这种设计中，由于不依从，治疗的意图与实际治疗并不完全一致，但分配机制仍然提供了治疗的变化。轻推实验是仿照医疗保健研究中的可比试验进行的。该实验是一种标准随机区组设计，学生被分配到定义为学校的区组内。鼓励学生使用CAP服务，其中包括一个应用程序，帮助他们决定哪所大学最适合他们。结果的措施包括中学入学后和学生的动机和职业规划data.This研究的目的是检查CAP程序的有效性，并有可能通知实践，政策和研究。这是很难研究整个学校的干预措施，这项研究是测试的方法来检测CAP干预措施的影响，通过随机分配学生的实验条件内的干预。这项研究的潜在好处是替代金标准随机对照研究，其中学校是分配单位和分析单位。成功的研究结果支持了严格的研究进行的样本中的学校比传统的权力分析表明的潜力。