Science Scholars Program

这个国家科学基金会（NSF）科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）项目在缅因州斯坦迪什的圣约瑟夫学院将为有才华的低收入学生提供奖学金和其他支持，攻读生物学，环境科学，生物化学，化学或海洋科学学位。支持服务将包括一个队列模型，为期一周的新生STEM实地研究经验，教师/学生研讨会，讨论潜在的研究项目，教师和同行导师，STEM研讨会系列，多年的顶点研究项目，职业发展，电子投资组合和早期预警保留支持。该计划将增加进入劳动力市场的STEM毕业生的数量，以满足新英格兰地区的劳动力需求，并最终提高美国的经济竞争力。科学学者计划将招收两批低收入、有学术天赋的学生。通过该计划创建的学生支持活动将有助于提高STEM学科所有学生的第一年保留率，并导致四年毕业率的提高。该项目还将进行一项研究，研究如何逐步参与STEM研究，在学生四年的课程中由教师导师指导，影响自我效能，以及这与保留，毕业和毕业后安置如何相关STEM相关就业或研究生工作。学生自我效能感将使用学业成就量表、大学自我效能感量表、适应性学习模式量表和团体环境问卷进行评估。 调查将结合前后焦点小组和书面反思，将学生的自我效能感与学术成果联系起来。该计划的调查结果将广泛传播给科学教育界。

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at Saint Joseph's College in Standish, Maine will provide scholarships and other support for talented low-income students pursuing degrees in biology, environmental science, biochemistry, chemistry, or marine science. Support services will include a cohort model, a week-long freshman STEM field research experience, faculty/student workshops to discuss potential research projects, faculty and peer mentors, STEM seminar series, a multi-year capstone research project, career development, e-portfolio, and early-alert retention support. The program will increase the number of STEM graduates entering the workforce to address the labor needs of the New England region and ultimately improve the economic competitiveness of the United States.The Science Scholars program will enroll two cohorts of low-income, academically talented students. Student support activities created though the program will help to increase first-year retention rates among all students in STEM disciplines and lead to an increase in four-year graduation rates. The project will also conduct a research study on how progressive engagement with STEM research, guided by a faculty mentor throughout the students' four years in the program, impacts self-efficacy, and how this correlates to retention, graduation, and post-graduation placement in STEM-related employment or graduate work. Student self-efficacy will be evaluated using the Academic Milestones Scale, The College Self-Efficacy Inventory, Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scale, and The Group Environment Questionnaire. Surveys will be combined with pre- and post-focus groups and written reflections to connect student self-efficacy to academic outcomes. The findings from the program will be disseminated widely to the science education community.