Interdisciplinary STEM Education and Mentoring for Transitioning to STEM Success

跨学科 STEM 教育和指导，促进 STEM 成功转型

• 批准号: 1833752
• 负责人: Kevin Bennett
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Hood College
• 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: 2019-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; STEM; Education; Mentoring; Transitioning

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Hood College. Throughout the five-year award, this project will fund 12 four-year scholarships and 6 two-year scholarships for students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, environmental science, mathematics, computer science, and computational science. The project seeks to increase the number of STEM graduates who are low-income and academically talented, with a focus on underrepresented groups. The project aims to expose and educate students in multiple STEM disciplines so that they may contribute to future workplaces that are highly interdisciplinary. The Scholars will be supported academically until graduation, as well as to conduct research and to present their research at professional conferences. The project has the potential to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations among Hood College's four STEM departments and strengthen its existing relationship with Frederick Community College, by recruiting transfer students from Frederick Community College to become Scholars.This project aims to expand the current knowledge base for student supports and curricular enhancements to develop best practices in preparing students to enter an interdisciplinary STEM workforce. The project will develop and provide first-year student supports with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary STEM learning. The longitudinal academic supports, including mentoring, will assist students as they progress through their academic career. The project will develop and implement an innovative Summer Transition program to prepare rising juniors (including transfer students) for an increase in rigor as they move to upper-division STEM course work. The project will analyze qualitative and quantitative data to determine the efficacy of the STEM First-Year Seminar and Introduction to STEM Research Methods courses in supporting persistence to a STEM degree. The project will also analyze the efficacy of the Summer Transition course in preparing juniors for upper-division course work, thus increasing retention in STEM degree programs. The project will also investigate how the interdisciplinary STEM cohort model increases student self-efficacy and preparedness to contribute to the STEM workforce. The project seeks to generate evidence that can be used by other institutions seeking to develop interdisciplinary STEM programs to prepare undergraduate students for a diverse STEM workforce.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.

在科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划的NSF奖学金的资助下，该项目将支持在胡德学院表现出经济需求的高成就，低收入学生。在整个五年的奖励中，该项目将为正在攻读生物学，生物化学，化学，环境科学，数学，计算机科学和计算科学学士学位的学生提供12个四年奖学金和6个两年奖学金。该项目旨在增加低收入和学术才华的STEM毕业生的数量，重点关注代表性不足的群体。该项目旨在暴露和教育学生在多个STEM学科，使他们可以有助于未来的工作场所是高度跨学科的。学者将在学术上支持，直到毕业，以及进行研究，并在专业会议上展示他们的研究。该项目有可能加强胡德学院四个STEM部门之间的跨学科合作，并通过招募弗雷德里克社区学院的转学生成为学者来加强其与弗雷德里克社区学院的现有关系。该项目旨在扩大现有的学生支持和课程改进的知识基础，以开发学生进入跨学科STEM劳动力的最佳实践。该项目将开发和提供第一年的学生支持，重点是跨学科STEM学习。纵向学术支持，包括辅导，将帮助学生，因为他们通过他们的学术生涯的进步。该项目将开发和实施一个创新的夏季过渡计划，为正在上升的大三学生（包括转学生）做好准备，以便在他们进入高年级STEM课程工作时提高严谨性。该项目将分析定性和定量数据，以确定STEM第一年研讨会和STEM研究方法介绍课程在支持STEM学位持久性方面的有效性。该项目还将分析夏季过渡课程在为高年级课程工作做准备方面的功效，从而增加STEM学位课程的保留率。该项目还将研究跨学科STEM队列模型如何提高学生的自我效能和准备，为STEM劳动力做出贡献。该项目旨在为其他机构提供证据，帮助他们开发跨学科STEM项目，为本科生培养多样化的STEM人才做好准备。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。