Targeted Infusion Project: STAR (Successfully Transitioning into the Academic Realm) Program at VSU

历史黑人学院和大学本科项目(HBCU-UP)通过有针对性的灌输项目，支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，以改善HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们能够攻读STEM研究生课程和/或职业。弗吉尼亚州立大学(VSU)的这个项目旨在提高未被充分代表的少数族裔学生面对学习科学的挑战的能力，并发展STEM身份，以保持他们追求STEM职业的兴趣和动力。拟议的干预措施成功过渡到学术领域(STAR)计划，旨在促进向大学水平的学术过渡，并将建立在之前成功的试点干预的基础上，该试点干预导致普通生物学专业注册的生物学专业的通过率提高。该项目预计将提高未被充分代表的少数族裔学生面对科学学习的课堂挑战的能力，并培养STEM身份，以保持他们追求STEM职业的兴趣和动力。STAR项目的具体目标旨在使用循证模型影响认知和非认知因素。这将通过对普通生物课程的课程改进和同伴指导、基于学习社区的方法来实现。其具体目标是：1)将BIOL130《生物学专业实践》的关键组成部分整合到所有STEM专业的普通生物学课程中；2)开发和实施同伴指导结构，其中整合了以循证和试点实践为目标的有效学习习惯，并通过学习社区最大限度地提高学生的参与度；以及3)实施严格的评估计划，以确定项目影响。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. The project at Virginia State University (VSU) seeks to enhance the ability of underrepresented minority students to face the challenges of learning science and develop STEM identities to sustain their interest and motivation for pursuit of STEM careers. The proposed intervention, Successfully Transitioning into the Academic Realm (STAR) Program, is designed to facilitate the transition to college-level academics and will build on a previous successful pilot intervention that resulted in an increase in the passing rates for biology majors enrolled in general biology. This project is expected to enhance the ability of underrepresented minority students to face the classroom challenges of learning science, and develop STEM identities which will sustain their interest and motivation to pursue STEM careers. The STAR program specific objectives are designed to impact cognitive and non-cognitive factors using evidence-based models. This will be accomplished through curricular enhancements to the general biology course and a peer-mentoring, learning-community based approach. The specific goals are to: 1) integrate critical components of BIOL130 Professional Practices in Biology that have been demonstrated to enhance course outcomes into the general biology course for all STEM majors; 2) develop and implement a peer mentoring structure that integrates evidence-based and piloted practices targeting effective academic habits and maximizing student engagement through learning communities; and 3) implement a rigorous evaluation plan to determine program impacts.