Pathways into the Sciences: Supporting Persistence and Graduation of Women Pursuing STEM Degrees

进入科学之路：支持女性追求 STEM 学位并坚持毕业

• 批准号: 2030903
• 负责人: John Glendinning
• 金额: $ 97.9万
• 依托单位: Barnard 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: 2021-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030903&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pathways; into; Sciences; Supporting; Persistence

This project will contribute to the national need for skilled scientists by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students at Barnard College, a private women’s liberal arts college. Many academically talented women decide to change to non-STEM majors after initially expressing a strong interest in STEM. This project intends to help women STEM majors persist by providing financial and other supports. Specifically, the project team will provide one- to four-year scholarships to 30 students, admitted in five cohorts of six students each. The Scholars will pursue bachelor’s degrees in Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics. Scholars will also participate in Barnard’s Science Pathways Scholars Program, a four-year cohort support program that builds on prior NSF S-STEM awards. The project will also study how math anxiety, science self-efficacy, imposter feelings, and competitive preferences affect Scholars’ experiences and trajectories. In doing so, the project will increase understanding about factors that affect the success of low-income students in STEM, particularly students who are women. These findings will be disseminated to help other educational institutions create more effective interventions that support student success in STEM.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need in STEM fields. The project aims to: (1) Provide scholarships and programming, such as faculty mentoring and career planning, to support 30 academically talented STEM students who are eligible for Federal Pell Grants; (2) Provide a comprehensive four-year program that will help Scholars excel in their science education, thus enhancing perseverance and graduation; and (3) Assess the effects of existing institutional support structures and the replacement of work-study and student loans on Scholars’ academic outcomes. The research plan is designed to examine how targeted financial aid and structural interventions increase retention in the sciences of women with low income and unmet financial need. Applying regression analyses and comparisons, the project’s research study will examine how factors such as math anxiety and science self-efficacy shift over time. It will also seek to determine whether competitive preferences and/or imposter syndrome impact Scholar decisions to take more advanced science courses after disappointing grades in introductory courses, and to identify the effectiveness of financial support differentiated from other types of support. Annual interviews will provide in-depth information concerning women pursuing STEM careers. 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.

该项目将支持成绩优异的低收入学生在私立女子文理学院巴纳德学院的保留和毕业，从而满足国家对熟练科学家的需求。许多有学术才华的女性在最初表达对 STEM 的强烈兴趣后决定转学到非 STEM 专业。该项目旨在通过提供财政和其他支持来帮助女性 STEM 专业学生坚持下去。 具体来说，项目团队将为 30 名学生提供一到四年的奖学金，这些学生分为五组，每组六名学生。 学者们将攻读生物化学、生物科学、化学、计算机科学、数学或物理学学士学位。 学者们还将参加巴纳德的科学途径学者计划，这是一个为期四年的队列支持计划，以之前的 NSF S-STEM 奖项为基础。 该项目还将研究数学焦虑、科学自我效能、冒名顶替者情绪和竞争偏好如何影响学者的经历和轨迹。 在此过程中，该项目将加深对影响低收入家庭学生（尤其是女性学生）在 STEM 领域取得成功的因素的了解。这些研究结果将被传播，以帮助其他教育机构制定更有效的干预措施，支持学生在 STEM 方面取得成功。该项目的总体目标是提高在 STEM 领域有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的本科生的学位完成率。 该项目旨在： (1) 提供奖学金和规划，例如教师指导和职业规划，以支持 30 名有资格获得联邦佩尔助学金的学术才华横溢的 STEM 学生； (2) 提供全面的四年制课程，帮助学者在科学教育方面取得优异成绩，从而增强毅力和毕业； (3) 评估现有的机构支持结构以及勤工助学和学生贷款的替代对学者学术成果的影响。 该研究计划旨在研究有针对性的财政援助和结构性干预措施如何提高低收入和未满足财务需求的女性对科学的保留。 该项目的研究将应用回归分析和比较，研究数学焦虑和科学自我效能等因素如何随时间变化。 它还将寻求确定竞争偏好和/或冒名顶替综合症是否会影响学者在入门课程成绩令人失望后参加更高级的科学课程的决定，并确定不同于其他类型支持的财务支持的有效性。年度访谈将提供有关女性从事 STEM 职业的深入信息。该项目由 NSF 科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加具有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生获得 STEM 领域学位的数量。它还旨在改善未来 STEM 工作者的教育，并产生有关低收入学生的学业成功、保留、转学、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。