Collaborative Research: Student Pathways in Engineering and Computing for Transfer Success

合作研究：工程和计算领域学生成功转学的途径

• 批准号: 1834000
• 负责人: Timothy Fulford
• 金额: $ 44.77万
• 依托单位: Trident Technical 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: 2019-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834000&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Student; Pathways; Engineering

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Spartanburg Community College, Trident Community College, and Clemson University. This project aims to increase the recruitment, retention, academic success, and graduation rates of these students who begin their academic path at community colleges and transfer into engineering and computing degree programs at four-year institutions.Over a five-year period, this project will provide scholarships to 316 transfer students to pursue bachelor's degrees in engineering or computing. A national challenge in STEM education is the low graduation rate of engineering students who transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. One driver of this low success rate is the insufficient preparation of community college students for the cultural differences they will face at the four-year institution. In addition, the four-year institution often lacks social and academic support to help bridge this gap. The project components include: 1) a scholarship program to financially support low-income, high-achieving transfer students; 2) an evidence-based mentorship and cohort building program that supports transfer success; and 3) a Ph.D. student traineeship program that includes training in teaching, mentoring, and education research. It is expected that the program will contribute to the quality and diversity of the national STEM workforce and increase understanding of what works to support success of transfer students.In addition to providing scholarships to low-income, academically high-achieving transfer students, this project addresses the well-known hurdles for transfer students by implementing and assessing a cohort mentoring model based on evidence-based strategies including communities of practice and cognitive mentorship. The program elements are designed to support transfer student enculturation in the university, as well as degree completion and placement in the industrial workforce. The program will recruit and train ten Clemson STEM PhD students for careers in academia by engaging them in immersive experiences in teaching, mentoring, and applied educational research. This training will include a residency at the community college sites where they will: 1) co-teach engineering courses with community college faculty; 2) develop and lead a cohort of low-income community college students in a project-based Creative Inquiry course that will be a focus of applied educational research; and 3) return to Clemson with the developed cohort, thus helping to bridge the institutional gap. The program will conduct rigorous internal and external educational assessment and program evaluation to identify key indicators of student success and to provide information that can be used to improve STEM education at other institutions. Results from this work will be broadly disseminated through digital outlets (e.g., e-newsletters; listservs), presentations at national conferences, and publications in peer-reviewed and trade journals to reach audiences ranging from higher education to low-income students with aspirations of excellence.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，工程和数学计划的NSF奖学金的资助下，该项目将支持斯帕坦堡社区学院，三叉戟社区学院和克莱姆森大学的高成就，低收入家庭的学生。该项目旨在提高开始在社区大学学习并转入四年制大学工程和计算机学位课程的学生的入学率、保留率、学业成功率和毕业率。该项目将在五年内为316名转学生提供奖学金，以攻读工程或计算机学士学位。STEM教育面临的一个全国性挑战是从社区学院转入四年制大学的工程专业学生毕业率低。这种低成功率的一个驱动因素是社区大学的学生对他们将在四年制大学面临的文化差异准备不足。此外，四年制的机构往往缺乏社会和学术支持，以帮助弥合这一差距。 该项目的组成部分包括：1）奖学金计划，以财政支持低收入，高成就的转学生; 2）以证据为基础的指导和队列建设计划，支持转移的成功;和3）博士学位。学生实习计划，包括教学、指导和教育研究方面的培训。预计该计划将有助于提高全国STEM劳动力的质量和多样性，并增加对支持转学生成功的工作的理解。除了为低收入，学业成绩优异的转学生提供奖学金外，该项目通过实施和评估基于证据的队列辅导模式，解决了转学生面临的众所周知的障碍，包括实践社区和认知导师制的战略。 该计划的内容旨在支持转学生在大学的文化适应，以及完成学位和在工业劳动力中的安置。 该计划将招募和培训十名克莱姆森干博士生在学术界的职业生涯，让他们在教学，指导和应用教育研究沉浸式的经验。这项培训将包括在社区大学的网站，他们将居住：1）共同教工程课程与社区大学教师; 2）开发和领导低收入社区大学的学生在一个基于项目的创意探究课程，将是应用教育研究的重点队列;和3）返回克莱姆森与发达的队列，从而帮助弥合制度差距。 该计划将进行严格的内部和外部教育评估和计划评估，以确定学生成功的关键指标，并提供可用于改善其他机构STEM教育的信息。这项工作的成果将通过数字渠道广泛传播（例如，电子通讯;该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。