Building Capacity: Positive Learning Opportunities and Research Experiences to Promote Success in STEM

能力建设：积极的学习机会和研究经验，促进 STEM 的成功

• 批准号: 1832511
• 负责人: Julia Bingham Wiester
• 金额: $ 146.14万
• 依托单位: Saint Xavier 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: 2018-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832511&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Positive; Learning; Opportunities

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge about how to achieve these aims. This project at Saint Xavier University will advance the aims of the HSI Program by increasing retention and graduation rates of undergraduates in STEM fields. To this end, the project will create a STEM Studio that will provide students with ongoing community, social, and academic supports. The STEM Studio will also serve as the hub for experiential learning opportunities and systemic faculty and peer mentoring of undergraduate students. Many high-impact educational experiences designed to broaden participation in STEM are directed at high-achieving and/or lower-achieving students. In contrast, this project will connect all students to high-impact educational experiences from which they are likely to show direct, measurable benefits. By addressing major challenges faced by many undergraduates majoring in STEM, Saint Xavier University expects to increase retention and graduation rates, which in turn will open doors to graduate level work and careers in STEM fields. To achieve the overarching goal of improving retention and graduation rates, the project will implement four objectives: (1) create the STEM Studio to provide a gathering place for a community of Saint Xavier University scientific scholars; (2) centralize targeted academic support strategies for undergraduates in science courses at critical transition points; (3) provide opportunities for student-faculty collaborative research and for other high-impact learning experiences such as short-term field research; and (4) provide networking opportunities and curriculum enhancements that connect academic coursework to the workplace. Success of this program will be evaluated in terms of both persistence to degree and assessment of the institutional climate for inclusivity. The project will apply a multivariate statistical analysis to the collected data to identify correlations between the objectives, student perceptions of validation and belonging, and academic outcomes.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.

改善本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划(HSI计划)旨在加强本科生STEM教育，并在HSIS建设能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。圣泽维尔大学的这一项目将通过提高STEM领域本科生的保留率和毕业率来推进HSI计划的目标。为此，该项目将创建一个STEM工作室，为学生提供持续的社区、社会和学术支持。STEM工作室还将成为本科生体验式学习机会和系统教师及同行指导的中心。许多旨在扩大STEM参与度的高影响力教育体验针对的是成绩优秀和/或成绩较差的学生。相比之下，该项目将把所有学生与高影响力的教育体验联系起来，他们可能会从中获得直接、可衡量的好处。通过解决许多STEM专业本科生面临的主要挑战，圣泽维尔大学预计将提高保留率和毕业率，这反过来将为STEM领域的研究生工作和职业生涯打开大门。为了实现提高保留率和毕业率的总体目标，该项目将实施四个目标：(1)创建STEM工作室，为圣泽维尔大学科学学者群体提供聚集地；(2)为关键过渡点的科学课程本科生集中有针对性的学术支持战略；(3)为师生合作研究和短期实地研究等其他影响深远的学习体验提供机会；(4)提供网络机会和课程改进，将学术课程工作与工作场所联系起来。这项计划的成功将从坚持学位和评估包容性的体制环境两个方面进行评估。该项目将对收集到的数据进行多元统计分析，以确定目标、学生对认可和归属感的看法以及学术成果之间的相关性。该奖项反映了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。