Scaffolding Undergraduate Curriculum and Career Exploration for Science Success

为科学成功搭建本科课程和职业探索

• 批准号: 1565138
• 负责人: Michael Alfieri
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Viterbo University, Inc.
• 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 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565138&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaffolding; Undergraduate; Curriculum; Career; Exploration

With funds from NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) program, Viterbo University in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, will improve educational opportunities in STEM areas for low-income, talented rural students by preparing these students to help address the many current global environmental and ecological challenges that face the United States. This S-STEM Capacity Building project will award scholarships and provide community and academic support to two cohorts of eleven students each for majors in biology or environmental biology. The underlying impetus of the project will be to recruit, enroll, retain, prepare, and graduate more biological sciences majors, especially from rural areas, for employment or graduate programs in the sciences. The investigators will provide resources for student success by providing students with: (a) financial, community, and academic support; (b) traditional and cutting edge scientific knowledge and skills; (c) real world work experiences through internships and research opportunities; and (d) specific resources needed to transition to the STEM workforce or graduate programs in related science fields. The project team will implement, study, and assess a scaffolding approach which will include: (i) early academic interventions for students to help overcome deficits in preparation; (ii) retain science students to graduation through social motivation and professional advocacy; (iii) provide students relevant, high impact experiences including job shadowing, internships and undergraduate research experiences, and (iv) Graduate well-prepared science students and assist them in obtaining employment or further education in their target field. To evaluate and advance understanding of the impact of the various activities, specifically concerning rural students, the project team will use a qualitative and quantitative mixed-methods research approach to investigate and measure a variety of impact variables including financial and the other support opportunities. The program has been designed to: promote broadening participation for talented, low-income rural students; build capacity and be sustainable at Viterbo; and be replicable at similar institutions that serve rural populations.

从NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学计划（S-STEM）奖学金计划的资金，维泰博大学在威斯康星州的长曲棍球，将通过准备这些学生帮助解决美国面临的许多当前全球环境和生态挑战，提高低收入，有才华的农村学生在STEM领域的教育机会。这个S-STEM能力建设项目将颁发奖学金，并提供社区和学术支持，以两个队列的11名学生每个生物学或环境生物学专业。该项目的潜在动力将是招募，招收，保留，准备和毕业更多的生物科学专业，特别是从农村地区，就业或研究生课程的科学。调查人员将通过为学生提供以下资源为学生的成功提供：（a）财务，社区和学术支持;（B）传统和尖端的科学知识和技能;（c）通过实习和研究机会获得真实的世界工作经验;以及（d）过渡到STEM劳动力或相关科学领域研究生课程所需的特定资源。该项目小组将实施、研究和评估一种支架式方法，其中包括：（一）对学生进行早期学术干预，以帮助克服准备不足;（二）通过社会激励和专业宣传，留住理科学生直至毕业;（iii）为学生提供相关的，高影响力的经验，包括工作阴影，实习和本科研究经验，以及（iv）使准备充分的理科学生毕业，并协助他们在目标领域就业或继续深造。为了评估和促进对各种活动的影响的理解，特别是对农村学生的影响，项目小组将使用定性和定量混合方法研究方法，调查和衡量各种影响变量，包括财政和其他支持机会。该方案旨在：促进有才华的低收入农村学生扩大参与;在维泰博建设能力和可持续性;并可在为农村人口服务的类似机构推广。