Increasing Undergraduates' Success and Persistence in STEM by Combining Scholarship Support with a Growth Mindset Framework

通过将奖学金支持与成长心态框架相结合，提高本科生在 STEM 方面的成功和坚持

• 批准号: 1930214
• 负责人: Alra Brooks
• 金额: $ 99.27万
• 依托单位: Tallahassee Community College
• 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=1930214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Undergraduates; Success; Persistence; STEM

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Tallahassee Community College. Tallahassee Community College is a public two-year community college where 41.8% students are classified as low-income students. Over its five-year duration, the project will fund two-year scholarships to 60 students who are pursuing Associate of Arts degrees in the disciplines of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, all disciplines of Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Science, Physics, as well as Computer Information Science and Technology. The project aims to increase retention and degree completion for students through both academic and non-cognitive skills development. The project will advance knowledge on targeted effective practices including: (1) active learning and research experiences, (2) optimized individual advising, (3) faculty mentoring, (4) tutoring, (5) internships and career counseling, and (6) non-cognitive skill development that prepares students to pursue STEM careers. The project will use the "Growth Mindset" framework which posits that intelligence and academic success can be improved over time with effort, and with the development of particular skills. By deepening the understanding of the "Growth Mindset" in STEM, this project will advance a more nuanced framing of challenges and factors for success in low-income community college students pursuing STEM degrees. This approach will help students develop a determined mindset when facing academic challenges and will lead to an increase in the retention of students in STEM fields.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project seeks to improve educational opportunities, enhance student support services, and employ the "Growth Mindset" framework to increase retention and degree completion of students in the STEM fields. In addition, the project will create a predictive model which identifies factors that affect student success in STEM disciplines. The project aims to study the effect of the enhancement of non-cognitive and psycho-social skill development on increasing student success. Furthermore, the project will analyze if specific activities can be identified as influential factors for the increase in student success. The project will be evaluated by collecting student data on GPA, semester-by-semester grades earned, retention, and graduation rates. In addition, through non-cognitive surveys and questionnaires the project will seek to observe and understand how changes in the "Growth Mindset" of students occurs. Dissemination will be conducted through presentations on the findings of the project and the identified best practices will be shared through national conferences and publication journals. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income 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.

该项目将通过支持塔拉哈西社区学院有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生的留校和毕业，促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。塔拉哈西社区学院是一所公立两年制社区学院，41.8%的学生被归类为低收入学生。该计划为期五年，将为60名修读文科副学士学位的学生提供为期两年的奖学金，修读的学科包括生物科学、化学、计算机科学、所有工程学科、数学、物理科学、物理，以及计算机信息科学和技术。该项目旨在通过学术和非认知技能的发展来提高学生的留校率和学位完成率。该项目将促进关于有针对性的有效实践的知识，包括：(1)积极的学习和研究经验，(2)优化的个人建议，(3)教师指导，(4)辅导，(5)实习和职业咨询，以及(6)为学生从事STEM职业生涯做准备的非认知技能发展。该项目将使用“成长思维”框架，该框架假设智力和学业成功可以通过努力和特定技能的发展随着时间的推移而提高。通过加深对STEM“成长思维”的理解，该项目将对攻读STEM学位的低收入社区大学生的挑战和成功因素提出更微妙的框架。这一方法将帮助学生在面临学业挑战时培养坚定的心态，并将导致学生在STEM领域留住更多的学生。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。该项目旨在改善教育机会，加强学生支持服务，并采用“成长思维”框架，以增加STEM领域学生的留校率和学位完成率。此外，该项目将创建一个预测模型，确定影响学生在STEM学科取得成功的因素。该项目旨在研究加强非认知和心理社会技能发展对提高学生成功的影响。此外，该项目将分析特定的活动是否可以被确定为提高学生成功的影响因素。该项目将通过收集学生的GPA、每学期的成绩、保留率和毕业率的数据来进行评估。此外，通过非认知调查和问卷调查，该项目将寻求观察和了解学生的“成长心态”是如何发生变化的。将通过介绍项目的结果进行传播，并将通过国家会议和出版物分享已确定的最佳做法。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学业成功、留住、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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。