Increasing the Success of Low-Income, Academically Talented Students in Engineering

提高低收入、学术才华横溢的工程学生的成功率

• 批准号: 1564931
• 负责人: Paola Bandini
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State 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: 2016-07-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1564931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Success; Low; Income; Academically

New Mexico State University's (NMSU) S-STEM project entitled "Increasing the Success of Low-Income, Academically Talented Students in Engineering" is a synergistic effort between the NMSU College of Engineering and NMSU student support programs and services. The project will support a cohort of twenty (20) academically talented engineering students who demonstrate financial need, with scholarship funding and Cohort Academic and Research Experience (CARE), which includes individualized self-assessment and monitoring, academic success workshops, undergraduate research experiences and internships, one-on-one relationships with faculty mentors, and training to increase self-efficacy, metacognitive self-awareness and self-study skills. The scholars will form a natural cohort sharing common challenges associated with low-income status, as well as common experiences in engineering. Historical NMSU data suggests that many will also share experiences as first-generation college students and historically underrepresented minorities, thereby broadening participation for students from those groups. Through industry partnerships, the project will enhance professional development and engineering workforce opportunities for NMSU?s engineering students.The objectives of the project are to: (1) provide financial assistance to academically talented students demonstrating financial need, (2) provide students with academic support, professional development, and research experience opportunities, (3) strengthen relationships and synergistic efforts with existing NMSU programs and services, and (4) increase retention of S-STEM scholars to degree completion and graduation. While implementing activities to accomplish these objectives, the project team will investigate the hypothesis that students' increased awareness of metacognition-based strategies motivates them to alter their study practices and the impact of students' study practices on learning and retention while iteratively developing valid and reliable instruments for use in this and future studies about study skills and metacognition-based practices as related to student success in STEM. Findings on the relationships among student study habits, learning performance, retention, metacognition, and self-efficacy for engineering will be of value to the STEM education field in general by providing faculty increased understanding of the value of metacognitive awareness among their students.

新墨西哥州立大学（NMSU）的S-STEM项目名为“提高低收入，有学术天赋的学生在工程方面的成功”，是NMSU工程学院和NMSU学生支持计划和服务之间的协同努力。该项目将为20名表现出经济需求的有学术天赋的工程专业学生提供奖学金和队列学术与研究经验（CARE），其中包括个性化的自我评估和监测、学术成功研讨会、本科生研究经验和实习、与教师导师的一对一关系，以及提高自我效能、元认知自我意识和自学技能的培训。这些学者将形成一个自然的群体，分享与低收入地位相关的共同挑战，以及在工程方面的共同经验。NMSU的历史数据表明，许多人还将分享作为第一代大学生和历史上未被充分代表的少数民族的经历，从而扩大这些群体学生的参与。通过业界合作，该项目将增加新密西根大学的专业发展和工程人才的机会。美国工科学生。该项目的目标是：(1)为有经济需要的学术人才提供经济援助；(2)为学生提供学术支持、专业发展和研究经验机会；(3)加强与新密歇根州立大学现有项目和服务的关系和协同努力；(4)增加S-STEM学者的保留率，以完成学位和毕业。在实施实现这些目标的活动时，项目团队将调查这样一种假设，即学生对基于元认知的策略的意识增强，促使他们改变自己的学习实践，以及学生的学习实践对学习和记忆的影响，同时迭代开发有效可靠的工具，用于本研究和未来关于学习技能和基于元认知的实践与学生在STEM中的成功相关的研究。关于学生学习习惯、学习表现、记忆、元认知和自我效能之间关系的研究结果，将使教师更好地了解学生元认知意识的价值，从而对STEM教育领域具有总体价值。