Bolstering the Advancement of Mathematics Master's Students to Prepare for Doctoral Mathematics Programs

支持数学硕士生的进步，为数学博士课程做好准备

• 批准号: 1930553
• 负责人: Oscar Vega
• 金额: $ 35.27万
• 依托单位: California State University-Fresno Foundation
• 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: 2020-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bolstering; Advancement; Mathematics; Master; Students

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 California State University-Fresno (CSU-Fresno), San Francisco State University, and California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. All of these universities are in the California State University (CSU) system and are Hispanic-Serving Institutions. CSU-Fresno and San Francisco State University are also Asian-American, Native-American, Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI). Over its five-year duration, this project will fund two-year scholarships to 30 students who are pursuing master's degrees in mathematics. The goal is to support the retention and graduation of students with demonstrated financial need and academic promise in master's programs at the three universities who plan to pursue a Ph.D. in the mathematical sciences, including mathematics education. The five components of the project are: 1) strengthened academic preparation; 2) robust mentorship; 3) structured trajectories with interim benchmarks; 4) support for students' applications to Ph.D. programs and graduate fellowships; and 5) travel support for student presentations of research and networking. Additionally, scholars will benefit from the collaboration among the three CSUs as they will have access to resources from all three departments. The project aims to recruit and support Master's students to matriculate and then thrive in doctoral programs in the mathematical sciences. It builds on two prior NSF projects that supported undergraduate students in mathematics through intensive summer programs. The project will incorporate those earlier findings into intensive 2-year Master's programs to provide for more extensive advanced coursework, extended research experiences and a broad range of mentorship and community building opportunities. The project will be based on two theories of action. The first is that providing scholarships will allow students to work fewer hours and allocate sufficient time to dedicate to academic preparation. The second is that structured mentorship and frequent strategic benchmarking will help students to use their time to develop the knowledge base and academic credentials to matriculate to a Ph.D. program. The project will document its impact by measuring the effects of the interventions. In order to do this, research will be conducted in two ways. First, to collecting and analyze student surveys and short reflections on their program, questions and challenges that they are encountering, and strategies they are using to address these challenges. Second, to compare program and population differences among the three project sites to study how local variation to the project may affect outcomes. A three-pronged, mixed methods approach will be used to externally evaluate project effectiveness: 1) monitor project implementation, 2) assess the efficacy of project activities in moving participants towards project goals, and 3) report on the summative effects of the project. Project members will present their findings at conferences such as the "Field of Dreams," the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, and others organized by the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society, or the Pacific Math Alliance and publish the results in mathematics/mathematics education journals, including student participants as co-authors when possible. The project will also have a website in which materials will be accessible. 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.

该项目将通过支持加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校（CSU-Fresno）、弗朗西斯科州立大学和加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校的高成就、低收入学生的保留和毕业，为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做出贡献。所有这些大学都在加州州立大学（CSU）系统，是西班牙裔服务机构。加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校和旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学也是亚裔美国人、美国土著人、太平洋岛民服务机构。该项目为期五年，将为30名攻读数学硕士学位的学生提供为期两年的奖学金。其目标是支持三所大学计划攻读博士学位的硕士课程中有经济需要和学术前途的学生的保留和毕业。数学科学，包括数学教育。 该项目的五个组成部分是：1）加强学术准备; 2）强大的导师制; 3）具有临时基准的结构化轨迹; 4）支持学生申请博士学位。课程和研究生奖学金;和5）旅行支持学生的研究和网络演示。此外，学者将受益于三个CSU之间的合作，因为他们将获得所有三个部门的资源。 该项目旨在招募和支持硕士生入学，然后在数学科学博士课程中茁壮成长。它建立在两个先前的NSF项目，通过密集的暑期课程支持数学本科生。该项目将把这些早期的研究结果纳入密集的2年硕士课程，以提供更广泛的高级课程，扩展的研究经验和广泛的指导和社区建设机会。该项目将基于两个行动理论。首先，提供奖学金将使学生能够减少工作时间，并分配足够的时间致力于学术准备。第二，结构化的指导和频繁的战略基准将帮助学生利用他们的时间来发展知识基础和学术证书，以获得博士学位。程序.该项目将通过衡量干预措施的效果来记录其影响。为了做到这一点，将以两种方式进行研究。首先，收集和分析学生调查和简短的反思他们的程序，问题和挑战，他们遇到的，以及他们用来解决这些挑战的策略。第二，比较三个项目地点之间的项目和人口差异，以研究项目的当地差异如何影响结果。将采用三管齐下的混合方法对项目的有效性进行外部评估：1）监测项目的执行情况，2）评估项目活动在推动参与者实现项目目标方面的有效性，3）报告项目的总结性效果。 项目成员将在会议上展示他们的发现，如“梦想之地”，促进墨西哥裔/西班牙裔和美洲原住民科学的社会，以及由美国数学协会，美国数学学会或太平洋数学联盟组织的其他会议，并在数学/数学教育期刊上发表结果，可能的话，包括学生参与者作为合著者。该项目还将有一个网站，可供查阅材料。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。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术成功，保留，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价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。