Recruiting and Fostering Students through Field Geoscience

通过野外地球科学招募和培养学生

• 批准号: 1832772
• 负责人: Nicholas Pinter
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Fostering; Students; through; Field

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program supports the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over a five-year period, this S-STEM project at the University of California at Davis will fund 50 undergraduate and 21 graduate scholarships for geoscience students in the fields of Geology and Coastal and Marine Sciences. To recruit students into geosciences, the project will partner with eight area community colleges. Starting with this group, the project will systematically support students beginning with their first experience in field-based science. The project has a progression of follow-on experiences, including an undergraduate field course, research experiences, internships, and/or entry into graduate school. In addition to the undergraduate scholarships, the project will include "Jumpstart Scholarships" to first year graduate students. The broad range of opportunities for field-based experiences will serve opportunities to mentor students and enable student to get involved in increasing levels of research. The expectation is that the financial, academic, and personal support for students will lead to increased recruitment, retention, and graduation in geoscience fields. This project will serve dual goals: education and research. The education goal is to recruit and retain highly qualified, low-income students in geosciences. The project aims to achieve this goal by supporting students from gateway geoscience courses to undergraduate majors, and into graduate school or geoscience professions. The research goal is to test: (1) whether undergraduate field instruction can enhance content understanding and student engagement; and (2) whether the novelty of working in a field environment is an impediment to low-income and other underrepresented students, and how such novelty space can be reduced. The second question addresses research suggesting that the novelty of being in an unfamiliar field environment can negatively impact student experiences and learning. The project will assess whether this novelty-related anxiety may challenge low-income and other beginning geoscience students, and what interventions can mitigate novelty anxiety. This project has the potential to increase and broaden participation in geoscience, thus enhancing the future workforce of geoscience researchers, teachers, and industry professionals.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.

NSF科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划支持具有经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。在五年的时间里，加州大学戴维斯分校的S-STEM项目将为地质学、海岸和海洋科学领域的地球科学学生提供50个本科生和21个研究生奖学金。 为了招收学生进入地球科学，该项目将与八个地区的社区学院合作。从这个小组开始，该项目将系统地支持学生从他们在实地科学的第一次经验开始。该项目有后续经验的进展，包括本科实地课程，研究经验，实习和/或进入研究生院。除了本科生奖学金外，该项目还将向一年级研究生提供“启动奖学金”。广泛的实地经验机会将为指导学生提供机会，并使学生能够参与更高水平的研究。 我们的期望是，对学生的财务，学术和个人支持将导致增加招聘，保留，并在地球科学领域毕业。该项目将服务于双重目标：教育和研究。教育目标是招收和留住地球科学方面的高素质低收入学生。该项目旨在通过支持学生从入门地球科学课程到本科专业，再到研究生院或地球科学专业来实现这一目标。 研究的目标是测试：（1）本科实地教学是否可以提高内容的理解和学生的参与度;（2）在实地环境中工作的新奇是否会阻碍低收入和其他代表性不足的学生，以及如何减少这种新奇空间。 第二个问题涉及的研究表明，在一个不熟悉的领域环境中的新奇感会对学生的体验和学习产生负面影响。 该项目将评估这种与新奇相关的焦虑是否会对低收入和其他初学地球科学的学生构成挑战，以及什么干预措施可以减轻新奇焦虑。该项目有可能增加和扩大地球科学的参与，从而提高地球科学研究人员，教师和行业专业人士的未来劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。