HSI-SMART: STEM Model for Research and Teaching Undergraduate-intervention Program

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个轨道1项目旨在提高毕业率，减少所有科学，数学和工程专业的学位完成时间，并减少拉丁裔和非拉丁裔白色学生之间以及男女学生之间存在的成绩差距。推进研究和教学的HSI-STEM模型（HSI-SMART）项目将联合收割机结合成一个完整的整体，跨越学生的整个本科生涯。该项目将：促进暑期咨询研讨会，以建立学生与教师的关系，在学生的第一学期，把适当的学生在关键的第一年网关类作为付费学习助理，把学生在付费研究助理，并从事课堂活动，以减少焦虑和增加归属感的学生。与教授和同龄人的直接联系将有助于留住新生，课堂学习助理将在最关键的阶段支持学生参与，学习和研究助理将使学生与校园社区保持接触，并专注于他们的学科。该计划将创建一个自我传播的学生社区，因为拉丁裔和女学生通过咨询研讨会和入门课程，并在他们走向毕业时回到学习和研究助学金计划。该项目将汇集所有STEM学科，通过将一系列干预措施整合到一个连贯的培训和社区建设模式中，提高拉丁裔和女性的参与度、保留率和成功率。干预措施的有效性，而在其他方面已经确立，是没有很好的记录拉丁裔和女学生坚持在干学位，特别是在HSIs。该项目将通过解决有关拉丁裔和女学生的具体问题来解决现有知识中的这一差距：针对STEM的夏季咨询会议是否会影响保留;解决学生焦虑和归属感的心理干预是否会影响入门课程的成绩和学位的持久性;在网关教室中放置近同龄人是否会影响学生和学习助理的表现;以及作为本科生从事研究是否同样支持从新手到研究生的成功过渡。由于该项目将从拉丁裔和女学生群体中招募参与者，因此该项目假设所有这些干预措施都将有利于目标群体的归属感、学习成绩和毕业率。该项目将平衡普遍干预措施与定量、对照研究方法，以衡量综合和单独干预措施对拉丁裔学生和女学生成功的重要性。这种可扩展、可评估和综合的STEM归属和成就模型将为STEM教育文献和实践增添一个至关重要的相关元素。更广泛地说，该项目将从根本上改变STEM学生体验的社会层面，通过创建和支持社区和包容性，从学生走进校园的那一刻起，直到他们毕业，并将作为学生成功和包容性社区建设的典范。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to increase graduation rates and reduce the time to degree completion for all science, mathematics, and engineering majors and to reduce the performance gap existing between Latinx and non-Latinx White students as well as between female and male students. The HSI-STEM Model for Advancing Research and Teaching (HSI-SMART) project will combine a set of four interventions into an integrated whole that spans students' entire undergraduate careers. This project will: facilitate summer advising workshops to create student-faculty relationships before the students' first semester, place appropriate students in key first year gateway classes as paid learning assistants, place students in paid research assistantships, and engage students in classroom activities to reduce anxiety and increase sense of belonging. Direct connection to professors and peers will support the retention of new students, classroom learning assistants will support student participation at its most crucial stage, and both learning- and research-assistantships will keep students engaged with the campus community and focused on their discipline. This program will create a self-propagating student community as Latinx and female students move through the advising workshops and introductory courses and are looped back into the learning and research assistantship programs as they proceed toward graduation. This project will bring together all STEM disciplines to increase Latinx and female participation, retention, and success by integrating a set of interventions into a coherent training and community-building model. The efficacy of interventions, while otherwise well-established, is not well-documented for Latinx and female student persistence in STEM degrees, particularly at HSIs. The project will address this gap in existing knowledge by addressing questions specifically about Latinx and female students: whether STEM-targeted summer advising sessions affect retention; whether psychological interventions addressing student anxiety and sense of belonging influence introductory course achievement and degree persistence; whether placing near-peers in gateway classrooms affects performance of both students and learning assistant; and whether engaging in research as undergraduates likewise supports a successful transition from novice to graduate. As it will recruit participants from Latinx and female student populations, the project hypothesizes that all these interventions will benefit that target populations' sense of belonging, academic performance, and graduation rates. The project will balance universal interventions with quantitative, controlled-study approaches to measure the importance of the aggregate and isolated interventions in success of Latinx and female students. This scalable, assessable, and integrated model of STEM belonging and achievement will add a critically relevant element to STEM educational literature and practice. More broadly, the project will fundamentally change the social dimension of the STEM student experience by creating and supporting community and inclusion from the moment students walk onto campus until their graduation, and will serve as model for student success and inclusive community building at other HSIs. 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.