Improving the Transition of Community College Students into University STEM Programs Through Cross-Enrollment

通过交叉招生促进社区学院学生向大学 STEM 课程的过渡

• 批准号: 1928554
• 负责人: Brian Sato
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Transition; Community; College; Students

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 1 project aims to diversify the pool of STEM graduates with bachelor's degrees. The project intends to accomplish this goal by increasing student transfer rates from community colleges to four-year institutions through cross-enrollment in STEM courses. A cross-enrollment program enables students who are enrolled at a community college to also be enrolled in courses at a four-year college. Cross-enrollment programs provide low-cost opportunities for students to become acquainted with a four-year institution's campus by experiencing courses at that institution. This project seeks to increase the number of students participating in cross-enrollment STEM courses with emphasis on increasing cross-enrollment for racial and ethnic minorities. Participating in cross-enrollment programs could enhance a student's confidence in their ability to complete STEM courses and could thus increase transfer rates of community college students into STEM bachelor's degree programs. This project is a collaboration between the University of California, Irvine and three community college partners, Irvine Valley College, Orange Coast College, and Saddleback College. The project team aims to identify the effects of cross-enrollment participation on a student's probability of transferring to a four-year institution and to identify and test methods for improving cross-enrollment programs. Cross-enrollment programs that include community colleges with diverse student populations have the potential to increase transfer rates and thus diversify the pool of STEM graduates at four-year colleges. This project will examine community college students' perceptions of the benefits of and barriers to cross-enrollment in STEM courses. Based on findings from focus groups and surveys with community college students, administrators, and STEM faculty, the study team will design and implement interventions to increase the number of community college students who are cross-enrolled in STEM courses at the University of California, Irvine. This study aims to examine the effects of cross-enrollment on community college students' probability of transferring to a four-year college and to provide evidence about how to improve the cross-enrollment experience for students in STEM programs. Students will be randomly assigned to receive information alone or information plus additional supports, such as parking passes and vouchers for books and course materials. These students will be followed for up to three years, enabling the project team to examine which supports are most effective for increasing cross-enrollment in STEM courses and to study the effects of cross-enrollment on eventual transfer to a STEM major at a four-year college. The partnership between a four-year university and three area community colleges could be a model for other institutions seeking to expand and diversify the pathways into STEM programs. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改进的本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这个Track 1项目旨在使拥有学士学位的STEM毕业生群体多样化。该项目打算通过交叉注册STEM课程来提高学生从社区大学到四年制院校的转化率，从而实现这一目标。交叉招生计划使在社区大学注册的学生也可以参加四年制大学的课程。交叉招生项目为学生提供了低成本的机会，让他们通过体验一所四年制院校的课程来熟悉该校的校园。该项目旨在增加参加STEM交叉招生课程的学生人数，重点是增加种族和少数民族的交叉招生。参加交叉招生计划可以增强学生对完成STEM课程的能力的信心，从而可以增加社区学院学生进入STEM学士学位课程的转化率。这个项目是加州大学欧文分校与三个社区大学合作伙伴欧文山谷学院、橙色海岸学院和马鞍峰学院的合作项目。该项目团队旨在确定交叉招生参与对学生转到四年制院校的可能性的影响，并确定和测试改善交叉招生计划的方法。包括不同学生群体的社区学院在内的交叉招生计划有可能提高转化率，从而使四年制大学的STEM毕业生群体多样化。这个项目将调查社区学院的学生对STEM课程交叉注册的好处和障碍的看法。根据焦点小组的发现以及对社区大学生、管理人员和STEM教职员工的调查，研究团队将设计和实施干预措施，以增加加州大学欧文分校STEM课程的交叉注册社区大学生的数量。本研究旨在探讨跨校入学对社区大学生转读四年制大学机率的影响，并为如何改善STEM专业学生跨校入学体验提供依据。学生将被随机分配接受单独的信息或信息加上额外的支持，如停车证和书籍和课程材料的代金券。这些学生将被跟踪长达三年，使项目团队能够研究哪些支持对于增加STEM课程的交叉入学最有效，并研究交叉入学对最终转到四年制大学STEM专业的影响。一所四年制大学和三所地区社区学院之间的合作可能会成为其他机构寻求扩大和多样化进入STEM项目的途径的典范。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Policy in Theory and Policy in Practice: Community College Students’ Perceptions of Cross-Enrollment

理论政策与实践政策：社区学院学生对交叉招生的看法

• DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2021.2010515
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Journal of Higher Education
• 作者: Morales-Gracia, Maritza;Dorman, Joshua;Bañuelos, Maricela;Park, Elizabeth S.;Cabrera, Jennifer;Fagioli, Loris;Baker, Rachel B.
• 通讯作者: Baker, Rachel B.