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

新墨西哥州州立大学（NMSU）的S-STEM项目题为“提高低收入，学术人才的学生在工程的成功”是工程和NMSU学生支持计划和服务的NMSU学院之间的协同努力。该项目将支持二十（20）学术上有才华的工程专业学生谁表现出经济需要，奖学金资助和队列学术和研究经验（关怀），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，一对一的关系与教师导师，并培训，以提高自我效能，元认知自我意识和自学能力。学者们将形成一个自然的群体，分享与低收入状况相关的共同挑战，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代表性不足的少数民族的经验，从而扩大这些群体学生的参与。 通过行业合作伙伴关系，该项目将提高专业发展和工程劳动力的机会NMSU？该项目的目标是：（1）为表现出经济需求的学术天才学生提供经济援助，（2）为学生提供学术支持，专业发展和研究经验的机会，（3）加强与现有NMSU计划和服务的关系和协同努力，以及（4）增加S-STEM学者的保留度完成和毕业。 在执行实现这些目标的活动时，项目组将调查学生对基于元认知的策略的意识的提高促使他们改变学习实践的假设，以及学生的学习实践对学习和保持的影响，同时迭代开发有效和可靠的工具，用于本研究和未来关于学习技能和元认知的研究-与学生在STEM领域的成功相关的实践。 学生的学习习惯，学习成绩，保留，元认知和自我效能之间的关系，为工程将是有价值的STEM教育领域一般通过提供教师增加对学生的元认知意识的价值的理解。

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.