Using Interconnected Career Pathways and Success Coaching to Enhance Student Success in STEM

利用相互关联的职业道路和成功辅导来提高学生在 STEM 领域的成功

• 批准号: 1953653
• 负责人: Luz Rodriguez
• 金额: $ 214.51万
• 依托单位: Rowan College of South Jersey -- Cumberland Campus
• 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: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953653&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Interconnected; Career; Pathways; Success

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 1 project seeks to improve the success of students in STEM fields. It will do so by developing a regional model of culturally inclusive STEM career pathways that span from high school to STEM careers. The pathways will focus especially on careers in cybersecurity and mechatronics/engineering, which have high workforce demands and offer well-paying career pathways. This STEM career pathways model will be designed to enhance relationship-oriented student supports and coaching to help students across critical transitions, such as the transition from high school to college. It is expected that these supports will result in increased success rates among STEM students, particularly students from Hispanic or low-income populations. The project will also support improvements in STEM curricula, implementation of high-impact practices such as active learning, and access to research and work-based learning experiences. By enhancing the STEM learning experience, the project seeks to increase enrollment, retention rates, two- and four-year degree completion rates, and career placement of students. The project seeks to generate effective practices for designing a STEM career pathway model and will share its findings with the broader higher education community.The project aims to generate new knowledge about how to enhance student success in STEM by defining career pathways and supporting students in those pathways. By embedding transfer program pathways in cybersecurity and mechatronics/engineering, the project will enhance opportunities for students to enter the STEM workforce in these fields. Project goals are to: 1) Increase retention, credit-hour accumulation, graduation, and STEM career entry outcomes; 2) Increase engagement of students, including Hispanic and low-income students, in course-based undergraduate research and experiential learning through cross-sector partnerships; 3) Improve academic and career outcomes for students through innovative STEM teaching and learning strategies and curricular models. The project evaluation includes a quasi-experimental impact study to examine results by comparing outcomes for cohort and non-cohort students, enabling assessment of differential outcomes between groups. Mid-project outcome-trend reports, as well as the post-grant impact study, will be disseminated via presentations at STEM conferences, publications, and outreach to non-NSF funded 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.

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项目旨在提高学生在STEM领域的成功。 它将通过开发一个从高中到STEM职业的文化包容性STEM职业途径的区域模型来实现这一目标。 这些途径将特别关注网络安全和机电一体化/工程方面的职业，这些职业对劳动力需求很高，并提供高薪职业途径。这种STEM职业途径模型将旨在加强以关系为导向的学生支持和辅导，以帮助学生跨越关键的过渡，例如从高中到大学的过渡。 预计这些支持将提高STEM学生的成功率，特别是来自西班牙裔或低收入人群的学生。该项目还将支持改进STEM课程，实施积极学习等高影响力做法，以及获得研究和基于工作的学习经验。 通过加强STEM学习体验，该项目旨在提高入学率，保留率，两年和四年制学位完成率以及学生的职业安置。该项目旨在为设计STEM职业途径模型提供有效的实践，并将与更广泛的高等教育界分享其研究结果。该项目旨在通过定义职业途径并支持学生在这些途径中获得有关如何提高学生在STEM中成功的新知识。通过在网络安全和机电一体化/工程中嵌入转移计划途径，该项目将增加学生进入这些领域的STEM劳动力的机会。 项目目标是：1）增加保留，学分积累，毕业和STEM职业进入成果; 2）通过跨部门合作伙伴关系，增加学生，包括西班牙裔和低收入学生，在基于课程的本科研究和体验式学习中的参与; 3）通过创新的STEM教学和学习策略和课程模型，提高学生的学术和职业成果。项目评估包括一项准实验性影响研究，通过比较同期组和非同期组学生的结果来检查结果，从而能够评估各组之间的不同结果。中期项目成果趋势报告，以及赠款后的影响研究，将通过在STEM会议，出版物和推广到非NSF资助的HSI的演示文稿传播。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。