Early Engagement for Entering Freshman Science Majors

进入科学专业新生的早期参与

• 批准号: 1742234
• 负责人: Wendy Schluchter
• 金额: $ 99.92万
• 依托单位: University of New Orleans
• 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: 2018-02-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742234&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Early; Engagement; Entering; Freshman; Science

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the "Early Engagement for Entering Freshman Science Majors" project is providing support to low-income students with demonstrated financial need and academic promise to succeed in STEM disciplines at the University of New Orleans. The project is funding 18 scholarships over 5 years for students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Computer Sciences, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences. This project will explore learning environments to increase the persistence and graduation rates of STEM majors at a highly diverse institution in an effort to enhance the US STEM workforce pool. The project goals are to improve academic outcomes for STEM students by providing a network of comprehensive support, engagement activities, and internships/research; to increase career and graduate school success through mentoring and career training; and to increase student confidence and preparedness to pursue a career in a scientific field. The unique contribution of this project arises from the testing of a combination of new and old interventions implemented on campus that will allow the research team to infer which work the best for persistence and graduation of students from low-income but academically talented backgrounds. This project will utilize several strategies to facilitate the success of the student scholars, including: (1) Providing comprehensive guidance by faculty mentors, peer mentors, and existing enrollment support staff; (2) Enrolling students in common sections of student support classes; (3) Providing comprehensive engagement opportunities in a flexible manner, including academic year enrichment activities; (4) Following the progress of each student and compare it with the progress of similar students not in the S-STEM program; and (5) Using the results of internal and external formative and summative evaluation to develop future models for improved student success. By recruiting prospective scholars from Upward Bound participants, local high school students from low income backgrounds, and other qualified entering freshmen from additional locations, this project will increase understanding of how components of this program might have the most effect on student persistence and graduation.

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，“早期参与进入大一科学专业”项目正在为低收入学生提供支持，这些学生表现出经济需求和学术承诺，以在新奥尔良大学的STEM学科取得成功。该项目在5年内为攻读计算机科学、化学和生物科学学士学位的学生提供18个奖学金。该项目将探索学习环境，以提高STEM专业在一个高度多样化的机构的持续性和毕业率，努力提高美国STEM劳动力储备。 该项目的目标是通过提供全面的支持，参与活动和实习/研究网络来提高STEM学生的学术成果;通过指导和职业培训提高职业和研究生院的成功;并提高学生的信心和准备，以追求科学领域的职业生涯。该项目的独特贡献来自于对校园内实施的新旧干预措施的测试，这将使研究团队能够推断出哪些措施对低收入但有学术天赋的学生的坚持和毕业最有效。 该项目将利用几种策略来促进学生学者的成功，包括：（1）由教师导师，同伴导师和现有的招生支持人员提供全面的指导;（2）在学生支持课程的公共部分招收学生;（3）以灵活的方式提供全面的参与机会，包括学年充实活动;（4）在学生支持课程中提供全面的参与机会。（4）跟踪每个学生的进步，并将其与未参加S-STEM项目的类似学生的进步进行比较;以及（5）利用内部和外部形成性和总结性评估的结果来开发未来的模型，以提高学生的成功率。通过招募未来的学者从向上绑定参与者，当地高中学生从低收入背景，和其他合格的新生从其他地点进入，这个项目将增加了解如何组成这个程序可能对学生的持久性和毕业的最大影响。