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Statewide effort to diversify undergraduate engineering student population.

全州范围内努力使本科工程学生群体多样化。

基本信息

批准号：
1848696
负责人：
David Jones
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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 2022-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1848696&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Statewide effort diversify undergraduate engineering

项目摘要

This project seeks to investigate a framework that reassesses admissions criteria to deemphasize standardized tests by considering a holistic perspective of a student's academic experience. Research shows that putting too much weight on standardized tests results in a misrepresentation of a student's actual potential for academic success. Students, particularly students of color and women, are often negatively impacted by stereotype threat which has been shown to result in lower test scores. Therefore, test scores do not accurately reflect a student's ability.To broaden participation in engineering, the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is broadening the admission review process to deemphasize standardized test scores and include a wider array of academic and social indicators. The changing demographics of Nebraska's high school graduates, and in particular the growth of the Hispanic/Latino/a population, make University of Nebraska-Lincoln an ideal place to study the impact of these changes on retention and graduation and the efficacy of subsequent student support programs for these students.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.

本项目旨在研究一个框架，重新评估招生标准，以淡化标准化考试，考虑一个学生的学术经验的整体观点。研究表明，过于重视标准化考试会导致对学生学术成功的实际潜力的歪曲。学生，特别是有色人种和女性学生，经常受到刻板印象威胁的负面影响，这已被证明会导致较低的考试成绩。因此，考试成绩并不能准确地反映学生的能力。为了扩大对工程的参与，内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的工程学院正在扩大入学审查程序，不再强调标准化考试成绩，而是将更广泛的学术和社会指标纳入其中。内布拉斯加州高中毕业生人口结构的变化，特别是西班牙裔/拉丁裔/a人口的增长，内布拉斯加大学-林肯是研究这些变化对保留和毕业的影响以及随后为这些学生提供的学生支持计划的有效性的理想场所。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估，被认为值得支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。