FIRSTS (Foundation for Increasing and Retaining STEM Students) Program: A bridge program to study the sociological development of science identities

FIRSTS（增加和留住 STEM 学生基金会）计划：研究科学身份的社会学发展的桥梁计划

• 批准号: 1525109
• 负责人: Sudhir Nayak
• 金额: $ 53.89万
• 依托单位: The College of New Jersey
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525109&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FIRSTS; Foundation; Increasing; Retaining; STEM

FIRSTS (Foundation for Increasing and Retaining STEM Students) is an extended summer bridge program for incoming students that continues through their first semester at college. The overall goals of this program are to help students from underserved populations transition to the rigors of the STEM curriculum and gather both qualitative and quantitative data on the reasons financially needy students elect to leave STEM disciplines. Rather than simply filling content gaps, FIRSTS will use the remediation of study skills in a interdisciplinary summer course, extensive mentoring, and the development of a science identity to improve success in STEM disciplines. In addition to student-focused strategies, the program also will incorporate faculty development in the improvement of teaching methods and mentoring through participation, training, interdisciplinary interactions, and discussions. FIRSTS will leverage the existing college-funded programming that is focused on predominantly underrepresented minority students from regions of historic poverty and will carefully pilot an expansion to include School of Science students with similar profiles. This program will deploy best practices for at-risk students, while focusing the research on understudied questions related to the impact of socioeconomic status, intersecting science and other identities. As such, FIRSTS will represent the unique data-driven collaboration between the School of Science and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences on pedagogy and research. If successful, the data from this project will allow other departments, colleges, and universities to incorporate a developmental philosophy in their existing STEM retention strategies.

First(增加和留住STEM学生的基金会)是为即将入学的学生提供的一个延长的夏季桥牌计划，将持续到他们大学的第一个学期。该计划的总体目标是帮助来自缺乏服务的人群的学生过渡到严格的STEM课程，并收集有关经济困难的学生选择离开STEM学科的定性和定量数据。First不是简单地填补内容空白，而是在跨学科的暑期课程中利用学习技能的补救，广泛的指导，以及科学身份的发展来提高STEM学科的成功。除了以学生为中心的战略外，该计划还将通过参与、培训、跨学科互动和讨论，将教师发展纳入改进教学方法和指导中。First将利用现有的大学资助的项目，该项目侧重于来自历史贫困地区的主要未被充分代表的少数族裔学生，并将谨慎地试点扩大范围，将具有类似背景的理学院学生包括在内。该计划将为高危学生部署最佳实践，同时将研究重点放在与社会经济地位、交叉科学和其他身份的影响有关的未被研究的问题上。因此，First将代表科学学院和人文及社会科学院在教学和研究方面以数据为导向的独特合作。如果成功，来自该项目的数据将允许其他系、学院和大学在其现有的STEM保留战略中纳入发展哲学。