Physical Sciences Scholars (PSS) Program

物理科学学者（PSS）计划

• 批准号: 1742124
• 负责人: Jiajia Dong
• 金额: $ 99.61万
• 依托单位: Bucknell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742124&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Physical; Sciences; Scholars; PSS; Program

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Physical Sciences Scholars (PSS) Program is providing support to low-income students with demonstrated financial need and academic promise to succeed in STEM disciplines at Bucknell University. The project is funding 84 scholarships over 5 years for students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in the physical sciences (Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology & Environmental Geosciences). The PSS program will provide opportunities for academic enrichment outside the classroom to help low-income students make successful transitions into rewarding careers in STEM disciplines by enhancing their self-identification as scientists. There are five primary tactics to accomplish the PSS Program objectives: provide scholarships; create a cohort of students that starts with shared living at the Discovery Residential College; provide dedicated and sustained faculty mentorship; encourage participation in student-faculty research and associated scholarly activities; and facilitate career placement by working closely with the Career Development Center. As a result, it is expected that PSS scholars will be better prepared to succeed in STEM majors as undergraduates and better equipped for careers in STEM after graduation. This S-STEM Track 2 project will research questions emerging from a focus on needs identified by Self-Determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation. In particular, it will contribute new knowledge to what is known about the effects of interventions on the STEM degree attainment of economically disadvantaged students. Bucknell University's PSS program also seeks to better understand the impact of faculty mentoring and cohort dynamics on the academic success of academically talented low-income students, who often are also underrepresented minorities, majoring in STEM disciplines at a private, liberal arts four-year institution focused on STEM. Program assessment activities will focus on the retention and success of the PSS scholars and explore which activities are most important for academic success of these students in this environment. The following three Research Questions will be explored: (1) What is the relationship between student employment and academic performance among low socioeconomic status physical science majors at a private rural liberal arts institution? (2) How will students' self-identification as scientists vary over time as a result of programming provided by this grant? (3) How do intrinsic motivation and curiosity vary over time and relate to students' self-identification as scientists? The results will be widely disseminated at STEM education conferences and journals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)计划的资助下，物理科学学者计划(PSS)正在为低收入学生提供支持，这些学生被证明有经济需求，并有望在巴克内尔大学的STEM学科取得成功。该项目将在5年内为攻读物理科学(物理和天文学、化学、地质学和环境地球科学)学士学位的学生提供84个奖学金。PSS计划将提供在课堂外丰富学术知识的机会，通过增强他们作为科学家的自我认同，帮助低收入学生成功过渡到STEM学科中有回报的职业。实现PSS计划目标的主要策略有五个：提供奖学金；创建一批从在探索住宿学院合住开始的学生；提供专门的和持续的教师指导；鼓励参与学生和教师之间的研究和相关的学术活动；通过与职业发展中心的密切合作促进职业安置。因此，预计PSS学者将在本科阶段更好地准备好在STEM专业取得成功，并在毕业后更好地为STEM职业生涯做好准备。S-STEM Track 2项目将研究因关注自主理论确定的需求和促进内在动机而出现的问题。特别是，它将为已知干预措施对经济困难学生获得STEM学位的影响提供新的知识。巴克内尔大学的PSS项目还试图更好地了解教师指导和队列动态对学业上有天赋的低收入学生学术成功的影响，这些学生通常也是代表不足的少数族裔，在一所专注于STEM的私立文科四年制院校主修STEM学科。项目评估活动将重点关注PSS学者的留住和成功，并探索在这种环境下，哪些活动对这些学生的学业成功最重要。以下三个研究问题将被探讨：(1)在一所私立农村文科院校，社会经济地位较低的物理专业学生的就业与学习成绩之间的关系是什么？(2)学生作为科学家的自我认同将如何随着时间的推移而变化？(3)内在动机和好奇心如何随着时间的推移而变化，并与学生作为科学家的自我认同有关？结果将在STEM教育会议和新闻上广泛传播。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Helping low income students become professional scientists

帮助低收入学生成为专业科学家

• DOI: 10.33424/futurum88
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: FuturumMag
• 作者: This article was produced by Futurum, a magazine