CAREER:Investigating Co-Curricular Participation of Students Underrepresented in Engineering

职业：调查工程专业学生的课外参与情况

• 批准号: 1911881
• 负责人: Denise Simmons
• 金额: $ 23.99万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 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: 2018-11-06 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911881&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Investigating; Co; Curricular; Participation

The objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to investigate how engineering students decide to participate or not participate in co-curricular activities and how these students perceive the impact of various types of co-curricular activities on their persistence, learning and entry into the workforce (or career) and what interventions encourage co-curricular involvement. This project is aligned with two of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) strategic performance goals: prepare and engage a diverse STEM workforce motivated to participate at the frontiers (T-2) and build the capacity of the nation's citizenry for addressing societal challenges through science and engineering (I-2). This project uses existing NSF-funded instruments to develop, test and distribute a new survey instrument; collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data on co-curricular involvement, persistence and learning outcomes that can be leveraged to guide institutional policies and programs and to design effective innovations to retain diverse students in engineering that progress to the workforce; apply research findings to design, pilot test and evaluate an innovative, evidence-based intervention constructed to enhance student persistence and learning and to inform institutional policies and practices on retention; and collaborate with institutional programs and national professional organizations to expand and scale up the intervention and disseminate results of the project. This project advances the understanding of engineering students' pathways to include those traditionally underrepresented in engineering; methodologically contributes to informal learning of engineering students; shapes future research and development related to these populations; and informs research communities, policymakers, and institution leaders. Research on the student experience is essential to transforming engineering education, which will result in broader participation of underrepresented groups in engineering.

这项教师早期职业发展（职业）计划奖的目的是调查工程专业的学生如何决定参与或不参加课外活动，以及这些学生如何感知各种类型的上课堂活动对他们的持久，学习和进入劳动力（或职业）的影响，以及哪些干预措施鼓励课外参与。 该项目与国家科学基金会（NSF）的两个战略绩效目标保持一致：准备和参与多样化的STEM劳动力，积极地参与边境（T-2），并建立国家公民通过科学和工程（I-2）来解决社会挑战的能力。该项目使用现有的NSF资助工具来开发，测试和分发新的调查工具；收集和分析有关课外活动，持久性和学习成果的定量和定性数据，这些数据可以利用，以指导机构政策和计划，并设计有效的创新，以保留各种各样的学生在工程学方面的发展，从而在劳动力上进步；将研究结果应用于设计，试点测试和评估创新的，基于证据的干预措施，该干预措施旨在增强学生的毅力和学习，并为保留机构政策和实践提供信息；并与机构计划和国家专业组织合作，以扩大和扩大干预措施并传播该项目的结果。该项目促进了对工程专业学生的途径的理解，以包括传统上代表的工程途径不足的途径；从方法上讲，有助于工程专业的学生的非正式学习；塑造与这些人群相关的未来研发；并告知研究社区，政策制定者和机构领导人。对学生经验的研究对于改变工程教育至关重要，这将导致代表性不足的团体在工程中的更广泛参与。