STEM Scholars Program: Developing Tomorrow's Leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

STEM 学者计划：培养未来科学、技术、工程和数学领域的领导者

• 批准号: 1564839
• 负责人: Alison Hyslop
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Saint John's University
• 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: 2016-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1564839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; Scholars; Program; Developing; Tomorrow

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at St. John's University in Queens, New York will support 70 academically talented, low-income students over a 5-year period to attain bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics, to facilitate entry into the STEM workforce or advanced degree programs upon graduation. In addition to scholarships, students will receive support in the form of study skills workshops, tutoring, seminars, career-planning workshops, and peer mentoring by faculty. The project will also help to increase retention among all first-year science and mathematics students by establishing a group of faculty who will introduce evidence-based high-impact education practices in introductory-level courses. Scholarships and support for low-income and academically talented students, who may not otherwise be able to obtain STEM degrees, will help to produce a well-trained workforce that will contribute to the economic well being of the nation.The project combines a variety of approaches for improving STEM degree completion. A faculty working group called the Science Consortium will be created. These faculty expect to increase retention by improving introductory courses in degrees in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics. Project faculty will be trained in evidence-based, effective instruction and high-impact education practices and will implement these in introductory-level courses. The core faculty team will serve as campus leaders training other members of the faculty and working together to fully transform the introductory-level science and mathematics curricula. The project will utilize a sophomore seminar as a means to develop a scholarly community between commuter and resident student populations and to provide low-income academically talent commuting students access to high impact practices known to improve retention including collaborative assignments and projects, research with faculty, and service learning opportunities. In this sophomore seminar entitled "Solving the Big Problem," scholars will work in groups and choose their own problem to address under the guidance of faculty facilitators. Scholars will be encouraged to choose problems impacting the greater New York City area that can be analyzed using a multidisciplinary STEM approach. The seminar will form the basis around which a cohort of scholars will be established. The project will study how this seminar approach improves retention and helps low-income students, many of which are non-residential commuting, give these students a community build around curricular, and co-curricular activities. The study will use a pre-post analysis of matched comparison groups to determine program effectiveness. The findings from the program will be disseminated widely to the STEM education community.

位于纽约皇后区圣约翰大学的美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金 (S-STEM) 项目将在 5 年内支持 70 名学术才华横溢的低收入学生获得生物学、化学、数学和物理学士学位，以便毕业后进入 STEM 劳动力市场或高级学位课程。除了奖学金外，学生还将获得学习技能研讨会、辅导、研讨会、职业规划研讨会和教师同伴指导等形式的支持。该项目还将建立一个教师团队，在入门级课程中引入基于证据的高影响力教育实践，从而帮助提高所有一年级科学和数学学生的保留率。为低收入和有学术才华的学生提供奖学金和支持，否则他们可能无法获得 STEM 学位，这将有助于培养训练有素的劳动力，为国家的经济福祉做出贡献。该项目结合了多种提高 STEM 学位完成率的方法。将创建一个名为科学联盟的教员工作组。这些教师希望通过改进生物学、化学、数学和物理学位的入门课程来提高保留率。项目教师将接受基于证据的有效教学和高影响力教育实践的培训，并将在入门级课程中实施这些培训。核心教师团队将作为校园领导者，培训其他教师成员，并共同努力全面改造入门级科学和数学课程。 该项目将利用大二研讨会作为一种手段，在通勤学生和住校学生群体之间建立学术社区，并为低收入学术人才通勤学生提供高影响力的实践机会，这些实践已知可以提高保留率，包括协作作业和项目、与教师的研究以及服务学习机会。在这个题为“解决大问题”的大二研讨会中，学者们将分组工作，并在教师辅导员的指导下选择自己要解决的问题。我们将鼓励学者选择影响大纽约市地区的问题，并使用多学科 STEM 方法进行分析。该研讨会将成为建立一批学者的基础。该项目将研究这种研讨会方法如何提高保留率并帮助低收入学生（其中许多是非住宅通勤的），为这些学生提供一个围绕课程和课外活动建立的社区。该研究将使用匹配比较组的事前分析来确定计划的有效性。该计划的研究结果将广泛传播给 STEM 教育界。