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Increasing Graduation Rates of Undergraduate Chemistry and Physics Majors by Connecting College to Careers

通过将大学与职业联系起来提高本科化学和物理专业的毕业率

基本信息

批准号：
2030804
负责人：
Hasitha Mahabaduge
金额：
$ 65万
依托单位：
Georgia College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-03-01 至 2026-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030804&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Increasing Graduation Rates Undergraduate Chemistry

项目摘要

This project will help meet the national need for skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. It will do so by supporting the persistence and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with financial need at Georgia College and State University. Over its five-year duration, the project will provide scholarships to eighteen full-time students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in chemistry and/or physics. The Scholars will enter in two annual cohorts and receive up to four years of scholarship support. The project seeks to increase student persistence by linking scholarships with effective supporting activities, including tutoring, team advising, mentoring, undergraduate research experiences, service learning, graduate school preparation, internships, and community building. The project will also support curriculum improvements designed to increase second-year student retention. Through project evaluation and research, new knowledge will be generated about factors that influence educational access, persistence, and academic and post-graduation success of STEM undergraduates, including those from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Academic and social support activities, such as summer bridge, undergraduate research, first-year seminar, and mentoring, can increase student persistence and success in STEM. However, limited data exist about the impact of such activities on low-income STEM majors who gain increased access to them by receiving additional financial support. Specifically, little is known how these support activities affect STEM undergraduates' engagement, self-efficacy, persistence, and post-graduation placement. To help fill this gap, the project will investigate the effects of early community-building activities in a low-stakes social environment on Scholars’ persistence, engagement, and sense of belonging. It will also study the impact of a second-year research methods and scientific communication seminar on Scholars’ self-efficacy and interest in undergraduate research. To better understand the career pathways and goals of academically talented, low-income students in STEM, the project aims to determine the impact that participation in summer internships and undergraduate research has on post-graduation job and graduate school placement. The project evaluator will use a mixed-methods approach to examine project implementation (outputs), the project's impact on participants (outcomes), and strategic impacts and sustainability of the project. The results of the project will be disseminated by publications in peer-reviewed journals, presentations in scientific conferences, and posting on the project website. 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 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.

该项目将有助于满足国家对熟练科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。它将通过支持格鲁吉亚学院和州立大学有经济需要的高成就、低收入学生的坚持和毕业来做到这一点。在五年的时间里，该项目将为18名攻读化学和/或物理学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。学者将进入两个年度队列，并获得长达四年的奖学金支持。该项目旨在通过将奖学金与有效的支持活动联系起来，包括辅导，团队咨询，指导，本科研究经验，服务学习，研究生院准备，实习和社区建设，来提高学生的持久性。该项目还将支持旨在提高二年级学生保留率的课程改进。通过项目评估和研究，将产生关于影响STEM本科生教育机会，持续性以及学术和毕业后成功的因素的新知识，包括那些传统上在STEM中代表性不足的人群。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要完成STEM学位。学术和社会支持活动，如夏桥，本科研究，第一年的研讨会和指导，可以提高学生的坚持和成功的干。然而，关于这些活动对低收入STEM专业学生的影响的数据有限，这些学生通过获得额外的财政支持而获得更多的机会。具体来说，很少有人知道这些支持活动如何影响STEM本科生的参与，自我效能，持久性和毕业后的安置。为了帮助填补这一空白，该项目将调查在低风险的社会环境中早期社区建设活动对学者的坚持，参与和归属感的影响。它还将研究第二年的研究方法和科学交流研讨会对学者的自我效能感和本科研究兴趣的影响。为了更好地了解学术才华，低收入学生在STEM的职业道路和目标，该项目旨在确定参与暑期实习和本科生研究对毕业后工作和研究生院安置的影响。项目评价员将采用混合方法审查项目执行情况（产出）、项目对参与者的影响（成果）以及项目的战略影响和可持续性。该项目的成果将通过在同行评审的期刊上发表、在科学会议上介绍和在项目网站上张贴等方式传播。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。