Broadening Participation Research Project: Advancing Interest and Motivation (AIM) for STEM Careers

费耶特维尔州立大学将实施一个HBCU-UP扩大参与研究在干教育项目，以检查推进兴趣和动机（AIM）模型对学生职业兴趣的影响，动机，自我效能，职业成果预期，并在干就业成果。 PI还提出了一项补充研究，使用结构方程模型和路径分析来研究自我调节及其对STEM职业兴趣和发展的影响。AIM是与职业服务办公室和STEM教师合作，为费耶特维尔州生物科学系、化学和物理系以及数学和计算机科学系的高年级学生设计的。研究框架以社会认知职业生涯理论为基础。该项目将使用理论的各个方面作为指导，为HBCU STEM学生开发一个广泛的参与模式，旨在提高职业自我效能，分享职业期望，提高兴趣和动机，以追求STEM职业，并通过协调一套涉及STEM教师，校友，职业服务办公室，该项目将为STEM教学和职业发展干预战略提供信息。这些发现可能有助于目前有关STEM专业不追求STEM职业的现象的信息，这是试图增加STEM劳动力中少数民族代表性的一个重要方面。

Fayetteville State University will implement an HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education project to examine the impact of the Advancing Interest and Motivation (AIM) model on student career interests, motivation, self-efficacy, career outcome expectations, and employment outcomes in STEM. The PIs also propose a supplemental study using structural equation modeling and path analysis to study self-regulation and its influences on STEM career interests and progression. AIM is designed for Fayetteville State seniors from the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Physics, and Mathematics and Computer Science in collaboration with the Office of Career Services and STEM faculty. The research framework is based on social cognitive career theory. The project will use aspects of the theory as a guide to develop a broadening participation model for HBCU STEM students designed to enhance career self-efficacy, share career expectations, advance interest and motivation to pursue STEM careers, and improve job search skills via a coordinated set of learning experiences involving STEM faculty, alumni, Office of Career Services, and STEM professionals in the workforce.The project will inform STEM teaching and career development intervention strategies. The findings could contribute to the current body of information regarding phenomena associated with STEM majors that do not pursue STEM careers, an important aspect to understand in trying to increase the representation of minorities in the STEM workforce.