The Role of High Impact Practices for STEM Persistence and Career Success

高影响力实践对于 STEM 坚持和职业成功的作用

• 批准号: 1564865
• 负责人: Karen Hicks
• 金额: $ 99.92万
• 依托单位: Kenyon College
• 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: 2016-06-15 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1564865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; Impact; Practices; STEM; Persistence

Kenyon College will award scholarships to low income, academically talented students, supporting them with high-impact practices (HIPs) to increase their persistence and graduation. Scholars will be engaged over four years, exposing them to HIPs early in their undergraduate careers, since the majority of students nationwide who leave STEM fields do so during their first two years. Activities begin with a summer learning community, and continue with structured and unstructured service learning projects, faculty-student mentoring, and internships and research opportunities.Four annual cohorts of 12 low-income, high-achieving students with interests across the STEM disciplines will receive scholarships. The project will test and evaluate the impact of STEM-focused HIPs beneficial to first-year students, aiming to increase persistence of these STEM students, especially those from groups with traditionally lower STEM degree completion rates. The research component of the project will also identify HIPs most likely to result in students pursuing STEM careers. An external expert will provide formative and summative evaluation of program impact, as well as future sustainability. Kenyon will contribute findings of best practices to the field, and will make special effort to share research emerging from its testing of HIPs and other programs in the liberal arts, for which there is little STEM-specific data.

凯尼恩学院将颁发奖学金给低收入，学术才华的学生，支持他们与高影响力的做法（HIP），以提高他们的坚持和毕业。学者们将在四年内参与，让他们在本科生涯的早期就接触到HIP，因为全国大多数离开STEM领域的学生都是在前两年这样做的。活动开始与暑期学习社区，并继续与结构化和非结构化的服务学习项目，师生辅导，实习和研究机会。四个年度的12个低收入，高成就的学生与跨STEM学科的兴趣将获得奖学金。 该项目将测试和评估有利于一年级学生的以STEM为重点的HIP的影响，旨在提高这些STEM学生的持久性，特别是那些来自传统上STEM学位完成率较低的群体的学生。 该项目的研究部分还将确定最有可能导致学生追求STEM职业的HIP。 外部专家将对项目影响以及未来的可持续性进行形成性和总结性评估。 凯尼恩将为该领域贡献最佳实践的发现，并将特别努力分享其对HIP和文科其他项目的测试中出现的研究，因为这些项目几乎没有STEM特定的数据。