RAPID: Collaborative Research: Electronic Mentoring to Address Challenges in Engineering Graduate Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic

RAPID：协作研究：电子指导，以应对 COVID-19 大流行期间工程研究生项目的挑战

• 批准号: 2031066
• 负责人: Guan Saw
• 金额: $ 10.93万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 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: 2020-06-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031066&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Electronic; Mentoring

Researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio and University of Kansas will examine how electronic mentoring (e-mentoring) affects student academic, career, and mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an important topic particularly for faculty who are forced to continue mentoring and supporting students through computer-mediated communication technology. The study investigates the life and work challenges for engineering graduate students affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and e-mentoring attitudes, support, and practices at U.S. institutions. The research will yield important insights about e-mentoring and generate empirical data to document the differential impact of e-mentoring practices on graduate students. The research results also will shed actionable guidance about how to address the life and academic challenges of engineering graduate students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.The investigators will examine four research questions: (1) What are the life and work/academic challenges of engineering faculty and graduate students affected by the COVID- 19 outbreak? (2) What are the e-mentoring attitudes, support, ad practices of engineering faculty during the COVID-19 outbreak? (3) How do engineering graduate students’ perception of e-mentoring support associate with their academic, career, and mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 outbreak? and (4) To what extent do the relationships between perceived e-mentoring support and student outcomes vary by demographics, disciplines, and institutional characteristics? The conceptual model for the study was derived from the literature on faculty-student mentoring and adoption of new technologies/practices, face-to-face mentoring, and e-mentoring. The researchers will employ a multistage stratified sampling design to conduct two national online surveys using Qualtrics with faculty and students .from U.S. institutions, including minority-serving institutions. Descriptive statistics will be used to analyze the survey data. By highlighting the differential e-mentoring practices and outcomes for underrepresented groups, the project will offer evidence that can inform interventions aimed at broadening participation in STEM during a crisis. This RAPID award is made by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program in the Division of Graduate Education/Directorate of Education and Human Resources, using funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. ECR supports fundamental research focused on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.

来自德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校和堪萨斯大学的研究人员将研究电子辅导（e-mentoring）在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间如何影响学生的学业、职业和心理健康结果。这是一个重要的话题，特别是对于那些被迫通过计算机媒介通信技术继续指导和支持学生的教师。该研究调查了受COVID-19疫情影响的工程研究生的生活和工作挑战，以及美国院校的电子指导态度、支持和实践。本研究将产生关于电子辅导的重要见解，并产生实证数据来证明电子辅导实践对研究生的不同影响。研究结果还将为如何应对受COVID-19大流行影响的工程研究生的生活和学业挑战提供可行的指导。调查人员将研究四个研究问题：(1)受COVID- 19疫情影响的工程教师和研究生的生活和工作/学术挑战是什么？(2)在新冠肺炎疫情期间，工程学院的电子指导态度、支持和实践情况如何？(3)新冠肺炎疫情期间，工科研究生对电子辅导支持的感知与他们的学业、职业和心理健康状况有何关联？(4)感知到的电子辅导支持与学生成绩之间的关系在多大程度上因人口统计学、学科和院校特征而异？本研究的概念模型来源于有关师生辅导与新技术/实践的采用、面对面辅导和电子辅导的文献。研究人员将采用多阶段分层抽样设计，使用Qualtrics对来自美国院校（包括少数族裔院校）的教师和学生进行两次全国性在线调查。描述性统计将用于分析调查数据。通过突出针对代表性不足群体的不同电子指导实践和成果，该项目将提供证据，为旨在扩大危机期间STEM参与的干预措施提供信息。该RAPID奖由研究生教育司/教育和人力资源理事会的EHR核心研究（ECR）项目提供，资金来自《冠状病毒援助、救济和经济安全（关怀）法案》。ECR支持以STEM学习和学习环境、扩大STEM参与和STEM劳动力发展为重点的基础研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。