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Promoting Success of Undergraduate STEM Students Through Scholarships, Mentoring, and Curricular Improvements in First-year Mathematics Courses

通过奖学金、辅导和一年级数学课程的课程改进促进本科 STEM 学生的成功

基本信息

批准号：
1930263
负责人：
Darlene Olsen
金额：
$ 65万
依托单位：
Norwich University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-02-01 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930263&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Promoting Success Undergraduate STEM Students

项目摘要

This project will help meet the nation’s need for skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. It will do so by providing scholarships and other supports to help undergraduate students earn a STEM degree. Over five-years, the project will award four-year scholarships to twenty-two students at Norwich University, a private military college that serves both Corps of Cadets and civilian students. These Scholars will pursue bachelor's degrees in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, mathematics, neuroscience, or physics. The project team will also implement and study the effects of evidence-based curricular and extracurricular activities, such as peer tutoring, mentoring, and community building. Participation in these activities is expected to support the Scholars to graduation and prepare them to enter the workforce or graduate STEM programs. Through these efforts, the project expects to help meet the national need for qualified STEM professionals in both the military and civilian workforce.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project team recognizes that students who enter college with less experience in mathematics are less likely to graduate with a degree in a STEM discipline. Based on that knowledge, the research aims of this project are to: 1) measure the benefits of corequisite implementation of precalculus and calculus to help students complete the required calculus sequence by the end of their first year; 2) implement and assess a leadership training program to improve the communication and leadership skills of peer tutors in mathematics courses; and 3) measure the effect of improved academic, financial, and career support for the Scholars across their academic career at the University. Research on these practices will contribute to the knowledge base about effective supports for increasing recruitment, retention, and graduation of STEM majors, particularly among low-income students. This project is funded by the NSF 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.

这个项目将有助于满足国家对熟练的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。它将通过提供奖学金和其他支持来帮助本科生获得STEM学位。在5年的时间里，该项目将向诺维奇大学（Norwich University）的22名学生颁发为期4年的奖学金。诺维奇大学是一所私立军事学院，为军校学员和平民学生提供服务。这些学者将攻读生物化学、生物学、化学、数学、神经科学或物理学的学士学位。项目团队还将实施和研究循证课程和课外活动的效果，如同伴辅导、辅导和社区建设。参与这些活动有望支持学者毕业，并为他们进入劳动力市场或毕业STEM项目做好准备。通过这些努力，该项目有望帮助满足国家对军事和民用劳动力中合格STEM专业人员的需求。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、高成就本科生的STEM学位完成率。项目团队认识到，进入大学时数学经验较少的学生毕业时获得STEM学科学位的可能性较小。基于这些知识，本项目的研究目标是：1)衡量微积分预科和微积分并行实施的好处，以帮助学生在第一学年结束时完成所需的微积分序列；2)实施和评估领导力培训计划，以提高数学课程中同伴导师的沟通和领导能力；3)衡量在学者的整个学术生涯中，学术、经济和职业支持的改善对他们的影响。对这些实践的研究将有助于建立有效支持STEM专业增加招聘、保留和毕业的知识库，特别是在低收入学生中。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，旨在增加有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生在STEM领域获得学位的人数。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并为低收入学生提供有关学业成功、留校、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。