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.

通过国家科学基金会在科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划方面的奖学金的资助，物理科学学者（PSS）计划正在向具有经济需求和学术诺言在Bucknell University的STEM学科中取得成功的低收入学生提供支持。该项目为在物理科学（物理学和天文学，化学，地质与环境地球科学）中获得学士学位的学生提供了54年的84项奖学金。 PSS计划将为课堂外的学术丰富提供机会，以帮助低收入学生通过增强其作为科学家的自我认同来成功过渡到STEM学科的奖励职业。实现PSS计划目标的主要策略有五种：提供奖学金；创建一系列学生，首先是在探索住宅学院共享生活；提供敬业和持续的教师指导；鼓励参与学生教师研究和相关的学术活动；并通过与职业发展中心紧密合作来促进职业安置。结果，预计PSS学者将为STEM专业的本科生提供更好的准备，并在毕业后为STEM的职业提供更好的装备。这个S-STEM 2项目将研究从自决理论确定的需求和内在动机的促进的关注中提出的问题。特别是，它将为有关干预措施对经济弱势学生的茎学学位的影响的了解的新知识做出贡献。巴克内尔大学的PSS计划还试图更好地理解教师指导和队列动态对学术才华的低收入学生的学术成功的影响，他们通常在私人的自由艺术四年制的机构专业的私人自由艺术学科中专业的STEM学科专业。计划评估活动将集中在PSS学者的保留和成功上，并探索哪些活动对于在这种环境中这些学生的学术成功最为重要。将探讨以下三个研究问题：（1）在私人农村文科机构的社会经济地位生理科学专业的学生就业与学习成绩之间的关系是什么？ （2）由于这笔赠款提供的编程，学生作为科学家的自我认同会随着时间的流逝而变化？ （3）随着时间的流逝，内在动机和好奇心与学生作为科学家的自我认同有何不同？ 该奖项将在STEM教育会议和期刊上广泛传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，认为值得通过评估值得支持。

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