Broadening Participation Research Project: Investigating Culturally Responsive Mentoring Practices in HBCU Research Experiences for Undergraduates

扩大参与研究项目：调查 HBCU 本科生研究经验中的文化响应式指导实践

• 批准号: 2011841
• 负责人: Derrick Bryan
• 金额: $ 34.97万
• 依托单位: Morehouse College
• 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: 2020-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011841&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Project; Investigating

The project will apply theoretical frameworks within social science to examine STEM undergraduate research experiences at HBCUs. This mixed methodology investigation will observe, measure, and describe how students, faculty, and staff at HBCUs engage in culturally responsive mentoring practices within a STEM undergraduate research experience. The investigators will enter the research spaces (research laboratories, campus research programs, etc.) to collect observations of mentoring practices and document what culturally responsive mentoring looks like in various HBCU STEM research settings. The investigators will then explore and measure the influence of mentorship in the participation and retention of STEM students at HBCUs. The project will generate approaches and guidelines to facilitate the replication of a culturally relevant mentoring model for STEM undergraduate research experiences at HBCUs and other contexts. Culturally relevant pedagogy will be used as a theoretical framework to investigate (1) What does mentorship look like in STEM undergraduate research experiences at HBCUs? and (2) What role does mentoring play in the participation and retention of HBCU STEM students in undergraduate research experiences? Investigators will collect quantitative and qualitative data to conduct a mixed methodology investigation. Survey data will be collected to quantitatively assess mentoring competencies as well as feelings, beliefs, interests, and attitudes toward mentoring in STEM research experiences. They will then collect qualitative data to reflect multiple points of view and understand trends, outliers, and contradictions in other data sources. These data will be combined with observational data to more accurately represent the mentoring experience within HBCU STEM research laboratories. Investigators will apply multiple case approaches to develop an in-depth description of HBCU STEM research experiences and compare and contrast different STEM research environments. The research is expected to produce reproducible findings. This broadening participation in STEM education research project is supported by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program.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.

该项目将应用社会科学中的理论框架来研究HBCUs的STEM本科研究经验。这种混合方法调查将观察，测量和描述HBCU的学生，教师和工作人员如何在STEM本科研究经验中参与文化响应的指导实践。调查人员将进入研究空间（研究实验室，校园研究计划等）。收集对指导实践的观察，并记录在各种HBCU STEM研究环境中对文化敏感的指导是什么样子。然后，研究人员将探索和衡量导师制对HBCU STEM学生参与和保留的影响。该项目将产生方法和指导方针，以促进在HBCU和其他环境中复制与文化相关的STEM本科生研究经验的指导模式。 文化相关的教学法将被用作一个理论框架，以调查（1）在HBCUs的STEM本科生研究经验中，导师制是什么样子的？以及（2）指导在HBCU STEM学生参与和保留本科研究经验方面发挥了什么作用？ 研究者将收集定量和定性数据，以进行混合方法研究。将收集调查数据，以定量评估辅导能力以及情感，信仰，兴趣和对STEM研究经验辅导的态度。然后，他们将收集定性数据，以反映多个观点，并了解其他数据源中的趋势，离群值和矛盾。这些数据将与观察数据相结合，以更准确地代表HBCU STEM研究实验室内的指导经验。研究人员将采用多种案例方法来深入描述HBCU STEM研究经验，并比较和对比不同的STEM研究环境。这项研究有望产生可重复的发现。这个扩大参与STEM教育研究项目是由历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划的支持。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。