Project Kaihuwaa: Advancing Low-Income Students in STEM through a Culturally-Appropriate Academic Journey

Kaihuwaa 项目：通过适合文化的学术之旅促进低收入学生在 STEM 领域的发展

• 批准号: 1834204
• 负责人: Michael Ferguson
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 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: 2019-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; Kaihuwaa; Advancing; Low; Income

This five-year project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the success of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Hawaii Maui College (UHMC), a two-year, commuter institution. This project will fund 75 annual scholarships to four cohorts of six students (24 total students) who are pursuing associate's degrees and plan to complete bachelor's degrees in Engineering Technology, Electronic & Computer Engineering Technology, and Natural Science. Scholars will receive a series of evidence-based interventions, including STEM faculty mentoring, advising using a guided pathway tool to align two- and four-year degrees, semester cohort activities as well as opportunities to participate in leadership development activities, research, or internships. The project will also work to increase the UHMC STEM department's capacity to retain, transfer, and graduate low-income and talented STEM students. This will be accomplished through faculty professional development and enhancing existing evidence-based student success initiatives with a culturally-competent framework, the Ka'ao Framework, across STEM courses. Because UHMC has a high population of Native Hawaiian students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields. The goals of the project are to build institutional capacity to better serve low-income (including Native Hawaiian) students by increasing 1) STEM faculty capacity to serve low-income students, and 2) academic success, retention, graduation and transfer rates of low-income scholars. The project seeks to design and implement an innovative, culturally-appropriate academic program for UHMC low-income students to improve overall graduation and transfer rates to four-year institutions. In addition, the project seeks to understand how the integration of the indigenous Ka'ao Framework, based on Tinto's model of institutional departure, impacts scholar success indicators, especially for low-income and Native Hawaiian STEM students. Results will be used to advance knowledge of the impact of integrating culturally-appropriate models on the success of STEM students in places with distinctive cultural traits, such as Hawaii. The knowledge generation component will test the hypothesis that the Ka'ao Framework's preventative classroom intervention will be a protective factor for fall-to-fall retention for low-income UHMC students. Comparisons will be made to evaluate the effect the Ka'ao Framework has on student outcomes. This will include a comparison of participating students to like-students that do not receive the intervention. Using data analytics to build a predictive statistical model of significant factors in retention, graduation, and transfer, the project will explore what works for whom among STEM majors, low-income STEM majors, and Native Hawaiian STEM majors at a two-year institution. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income, academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. This timely research extends emerging evidence-based practices when the nation is critically examining ways to improve low national graduation and retention rates to meet future STEM workforce demands.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.

这个为期五年的项目将通过支持夏威夷大学毛伊岛学院（UHMC）中表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的成功，为满足全国对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求做出贡献。该项目将提供75个年度奖学金，资助四组6名学生（共24名学生）攻读副学士学位，并计划完成工程技术、电子与计算机工程技术和自然科学的学士学位。学者们将获得一系列基于证据的干预措施，包括STEM教师指导、使用指导路径工具来协调两年制和四年制学位的建议、学期队列活动，以及参与领导力发展活动、研究或实习的机会。该项目还将努力提高UHMC STEM部门留住、转移和毕业低收入和有才华的STEM学生的能力。这将通过教师专业发展和加强现有的基于证据的学生成功计划来实现，并在STEM课程中采用具有文化竞争力的框架，即Ka'ao框架。由于UHMC拥有大量夏威夷原住民学生，因此该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与。该项目的目标是通过提高1)STEM教师服务低收入学生的能力，以及2)低收入学者的学业成功、留校率、毕业率和转学率，来建立更好地服务低收入（包括夏威夷原住民）学生的机构能力。该项目旨在为UHMC低收入学生设计和实施一项创新的、与文化相适应的学术计划，以提高总体毕业率和四年制大学的转学率。此外，该项目旨在了解基于Tinto的机构离开模型的土著Ka'ao框架的整合如何影响学者的成功指标，特别是对于低收入和夏威夷原住民STEM学生。研究结果将用于促进对在具有独特文化特征的地方（如夏威夷）整合适合文化的模式对STEM学生成功的影响的认识。知识生成部分将检验假设，即Ka'ao框架的预防性课堂干预将成为低收入UHMC学生跌倒到跌倒的保护因素。将进行比较，以评估考研框架对学生成绩的影响。这将包括参与的学生与没有接受干预的学生的比较。该项目将使用数据分析来建立一个关于保留、毕业和转学等重要因素的预测统计模型，探索在一所两年制大学的STEM专业学生、低收入STEM专业学生和夏威夷原住民STEM专业学生中，什么对谁有效。该项目由美国国家科学基金会的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加低收入、有学术天赋、有经济需求的学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。这项及时的研究扩展了新兴的循证实践，目前美国正在认真研究如何改善低全国毕业率和保留率，以满足未来STEM劳动力的需求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。