Enhancing STEM Identity through E-Mentoring Experiences

通过电子辅导体验增强 STEM 认同

• 批准号: 1850024
• 负责人: Cameron Denson
• 金额: $ 119.98万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 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: 2018-12-15 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1850024&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; STEM; Identity; through; Mentoring

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by preparing and interesting high achieving middle school students for advanced math courses in high school and eventually in engineering careers. This project is a partnership between the College of Education, the Math, Science and Education Network Pre-College Program, the Minority Engineering Program, and Technology and Engineering Education, all at NC State University, as well as four school districts in high poverty rural areas of North Carolina. This project addresses an important national concern of strengthening and diversifying the scientific workforce. This project could have significance by providing a transformative model that can potentially enhance STEM learning and engagement for underrepresented students living in rural areas of the U.S., thus greatly improving their chances for upward mobility. The project studies the effects of e-mentoring (online mentoring) on underrepresented student mentors and underrepresented high school students living in rural areas. The mentoring model and tools developed have the potential to impact all students, further contributing to the capability and diversity of future STEM professionals. The goal of the project is to develop and iteratively test an e-mentoring program for underrepresented high school students living in rural North Carolina that will engage them in engineering-related experiences supported by near-peer relationships with mentors of similar background, race, gender, and experiences, to improve students' attitudes about and participation in STEM. This project will employ a research-based mentoring model facilitated using mobile and web-based software technology. This three-year project will iteratively design, implement, and study the e-mentoring program by matching 100 underrepresented rural students with college engineering majors from the Minority Engineering Program and Technology and Engineering Education at NC State. Both high school students and student mentors participating in the program will benefit from a connection to the broader STEM community that will allow them to envision pathways to STEM careers. This project will report on factors that facilitate successful implementation of the e-mentoring experience, examine the potential promise of the e-mentoring experience for participating students, and determine factors that may moderate the potential of the e-mentoring program. By matching underrepresented students with near-peer mentors of similar background, experience, and interests, it is expected that mentees will improve in their self-efficacy and value for STEM, and their STEM intentions, enrollment, and persistence. The methods and approaches used for applying strategies of successful mentorship programs will leverage digital tools and an inverted classroom to enhance STEM learning and the mentoring experience. The project has the potential to expand upon the capacity of traditional mentoring and develop new avenues through which to enhance STEM identity, education, and the 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.

该项目将推进学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的做法，为高中的高级数学课程和最终的工程职业做好准备。该项目是教育学院、数学、科学和教育网络大学预科项目、少数民族工程项目以及技术和工程教育之间的合作伙伴关系，所有这些项目都在北卡罗来纳州立大学以及北卡罗来纳州高度贫困农村地区的四个学区。该项目解决了加强科学工作队伍并使之多样化这一重要的国家关切问题。该项目可能具有重要意义，因为它提供了一种变革性的模式，可以潜在地增强生活在美国农村地区代表性不足的学生的STEM学习和参与，从而大大增加了他们向上流动的机会。该项目研究电子辅导（在线辅导）对代表性不足的学生导师和生活在农村地区的代表性不足的高中生的影响。开发的指导模式和工具有可能影响所有学生，进一步促进未来STEM专业人员的能力和多样性。该项目的目标是为居住在北卡罗来纳州农村的代表性不足的高中生开发和迭代测试电子辅导计划，该计划将使他们参与与工程相关的经验，由与类似背景，种族，性别和经验的导师的近同伴关系支持，以改善学生对STEM的态度和参与。该项目将采用基于研究的指导模式，利用移动的和基于网络的软件技术。这个为期三年的项目将反复设计，实施和研究电子辅导计划，将100名代表性不足的农村学生与北卡罗来纳州少数民族工程计划和技术与工程教育的大学工程专业相匹配。参与该计划的高中生和学生导师都将受益于与更广泛的STEM社区的联系，这将使他们能够设想STEM职业生涯的途径。本项目将报告促进成功实施电子辅导经验的因素，研究参与学生的电子辅导经验的潜在承诺，并确定可能缓和电子辅导计划的潜力的因素。通过将代表性不足的学生与具有相似背景，经验和兴趣的近同行导师相匹配，预计学员将提高他们的自我效能和STEM价值，以及他们的STEM意图，入学率和持久性。用于应用成功的导师计划的策略的方法和途径将利用数字化工具和倒置的课堂来增强STEM学习和导师经验。该项目有可能扩大传统辅导的能力，并开发新的途径，通过它来提高STEM身份，教育和劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为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。