Rocky Mountain Scholars Program: Determining the Impact of Cohort-Based Undergraduate Research

落基山学者计划：确定基于队列的本科研究的影响

• 批准号: 1930417
• 负责人: Mark Brown
• 金额: $ 99.53万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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=1930417&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rocky; Mountain; Scholars; Program; Determining

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 Colorado State University, a public, Land Grant Institution. Over its five-year duration, this project will fund two-year scholarships to 60 students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and/or Biology. These students will participate in research experiences under the direction of faculty mentors to solve engaging, real-world problems. The project includes a research study that will examine how different approaches to faculty-mentored research experiences affect student performance, graduation rates, and career goals. The broader impacts of this project include further developing the pipeline of high-ability community college students who transition into leadership roles in their fields. The research findings of this program will be widely disseminated for the broad benefit of college educators throughout the nation. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The Rocky Mountain Scholars Project will work with an alliance of community colleges to: 1) Recruit four cohorts of 15 transfer students who meet the financial need, high-ability criteria; 2) Provide the Scholars with scholarship funding; 3) Engage Scholars in faculty-mentored research assistantships; and 4) Provide Scholars with a support program centered on student engagement. The project research plan includes an efficacy study examining whether cohort-based mentored research experiences are more effective than individual mentored-research experiences, with regard academic performance, retention, STEM persistence, decision to enter graduate school, and decision to enter STEM careers. Moreover, it will investigate how the quality and quantity of student interactions with cohort mates and faculty mentors influence these outcomes. The research will consist of a mixed methods approach including: 1) statistical analyses using data obtained from program-generated variables as well as data from Institutional Research and the Analytics Section of the Career Center; 2) surveys and self-efficacy analyses to elicit a holistic picture of students' perceptions of the program's efficacy. Results of this project will be published in STEM education journals, posted on the program web site, and presented at conferences. 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.

该项目将通过支持科罗拉多州立大学（一所公立赠地机构）中表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业，为全国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做出贡献。该项目为期五年，将为60名攻读数学和/或生物学学士学位的学生提供两年奖学金。这些学生将在教师导师的指导下参与研究经验，以解决引人入胜的现实问题。该项目包括一项研究，该研究将研究教师指导的研究经历的不同方法如何影响学生的表现、毕业率和职业目标。这个项目的更广泛的影响包括进一步发展高能力的社区大学学生的管道，他们在各自的领域过渡到领导角色。该项目的研究成果将广泛传播，为全国高校教育工作者带来广泛的利益。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。落基山学者项目将与社区大学联盟合作：1)招收四组15名符合经济需求和高能力标准的转学生；2)提供奖学金资助；3)聘请学者参加教师指导的研究助学金；4)为学者提供以学生参与为中心的支持计划。该项目研究计划包括一项功效研究，研究基于队列的指导研究经历是否比个人指导研究经历更有效，包括学业成绩、留任率、STEM持久性、进入研究生院的决定以及进入STEM职业的决定。此外，它将调查学生与同伴和教师导师互动的质量和数量如何影响这些结果。该研究将包括一种混合方法，包括：1)使用从方案生成的变量以及从职业中心的机构研究和分析科获得的数据进行统计分析；2)调查和自我效能分析，以引出学生对项目效能感的整体看法。该项目的研究结果将发表在STEM教育期刊上，发布在项目网站上，并在会议上发表。该项目由美国国家科学基金会的科学、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。

项目成果

Rocky Mountain Scholars Program: Impact on Female Undergraduate Engineering Students – Social and Academic Support, Retention, and Success

落基山学者计划：对女本科工程生的影响 – 社会和学术支持、保留和成功

• DOI: 10.3991/ijep.v10i4.12139
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP
• 作者: Brown, Mark;Hitt, Matthew P.;Stephens, Alyssa;Dickmann, Ellyn M
• 通讯作者: Dickmann, Ellyn M