Collaborative Research: ASPIRE: Appalachian Students Promoting the Integration of Research in Education

合作研究：ASPIRE：阿巴拉契亚学生促进教育研究的整合

• 批准号: 1643393
• 负责人: Erin Hardin
• 金额: $ 288.8万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 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: 2016-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ASPIRE; Appalachian; Students

The "Appalachian Students Promoting the Integration of Research in Education" (ASPIRE) project will promote economic growth in the Appalachia region by supporting high achieving, low-income Appalachian students who attend the University of Tennessee in Knoxville or Chattanooga to complete degrees in science. Appalachian students come from households where post-secondary education is rare and poverty rates are high, thus creating barriers to degree completion. ASPIRE will address financial, academic, and other barriers to graduating with a scientific degree by providing scholarships and targeted academic and social support. Eighty students will receive four-year scholarships, live in research-focused living/learning communities, engage in mentored research, and participate in academic transition seminars, career-building fellowships and family activities. Scholarship students on the larger Knoxville campus will also engage with the new Appalachian Mentoring Program, which will provide support across social, academic, and career-related domains.ASPIRE will compare students from low-income, low-minority, rural schools, which have the lowest college enrollment rate (44%) and the lowest six-year completion rates (21%) of any group, with students from low-income, high-minority, urban schools. The focus will be on evaluating the overlapping and unique needs of these two groups of students, as well as the relative effects on financial, socio-cultural and academic transition barriers on persistence and success of each type of support. Much is already known about the needs of first-generation, low-income, or underrepresented minority students; yet much less is known about the extent to which students with different combinations of these identities face different challenges and benefit from different support services. ASPIRE will provide a novel opportunity to identify and understand such unique needs. Results from this research will advance knowledge about evidence-based, high-impact practices that facilitate success for diverse students.

“阿巴拉契亚学生促进教育研究一体化”（ASPIRE）项目将通过支持在诺克斯维尔或查塔努加的田纳西大学学习的高成就、低收入的阿巴拉契亚学生完成科学学位，促进阿巴拉契亚地区的经济增长。 阿巴拉契亚学生来自中学后教育很少和贫困率很高的家庭，从而创造了完成学位的障碍。ASPIRE将通过提供奖学金和有针对性的学术和社会支持，解决获得科学学位的财务，学术和其他障碍。 80名学生将获得为期四年的奖学金，生活在以研究为重点的生活/学习社区，从事指导研究，并参加学术过渡研讨会，职业建设奖学金和家庭活动。大诺克斯维尔校区的奖学金学生也将参与新的阿巴拉契亚指导计划，该计划将提供跨社会，学术和职业相关领域的支持。ASPIRE将比较来自低收入，低少数民族，农村学校的学生，这些学校的大学入学率最低（44%）和六年毕业率最低（21%），与来自低收入，高少数民族，城市学校重点将是评估这两类学生的重叠和独特的需求，以及对每种类型的支持的持久性和成功的财政，社会文化和学术过渡障碍的相对影响。 关于第一代、低收入或代表性不足的少数民族学生的需求，我们已经知道得很多;但对于具有不同身份组合的学生面临不同挑战并从不同支持服务中受益的程度，我们知之甚少。ASPIRE将提供一个新的机会，以确定和了解这种独特的需求。 这项研究的结果将促进对循证，高影响力的做法，促进不同学生的成功知识。