Collaborative Research:Beyond Representation: Adversity Experiences on STEM Motivation, Performance, and Persistence

合作研究：超越表征：逆境经历对 STEM 动机、表现和毅力的影响

• 批准号: 2100283
• 负责人: Jonathan Cook
• 金额: $ 3.81万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2100283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Beyond; Representation; Adversity

Understanding the impact of adversity experiences on STEM persistence and performance is significant to broaden participation of individuals from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented. Researchers at Georgia State University and Pennsylvania State University aim to study the effects of adversity experiences on student motivation to pursue STEM majors and student persistence and performance in STEM degree programs. The project aims to develop and use a model that predicts how different sources of adversity affect STEM motivation, persistence, and performance. This project aligns with the EHR Core Research program’s goal of addressing challenges in STEM interest, learning, and participation.The longitudinal study will include surveys of 1000 first-time, first-year STEM majors enrolled in introductory Chemistry and Psychology courses at two large minority-serving and economically diverse public research institutions. The project aims to produce adversity profiles, derived from Latent Profile Analysis, that will guide investigations of links among adversity, motivation, and decisions to remain in STEM fields. The project seeks to identify patterns of adversity and determine which profiles have the strongest association with STEM persistence and achievement, examine how longitudinal patterns in motivation and performance operate as a function of adversity, and determine how adversity profiles and adversity levels change over time. Demographic differences and differences between STEM departments and universities will be examined. This project seeks to advance knowledge about adversity experiences’ impact on STEM motivation that may be used to develop interventions that target students whose STEM motivation and performance are inhibited by multidimensional adversity. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research program that supports fundamental research focused on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM professional 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.

了解逆境经历对STEM持久性和表现的影响对于扩大传统上代表性不足的群体的个人参与具有重要意义。佐治亚州立大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的研究人员旨在研究逆境经历对学生追求STEM专业的动机以及学生在STEM学位课程中的坚持和表现的影响。该项目旨在开发和使用一个模型，预测不同的逆境来源如何影响STEM的动机、坚持和表现。该项目符合EHR核心研究项目的目标，即解决STEM兴趣、学习和参与方面的挑战。这项纵向研究将包括对两家大型少数民族服务和经济多元化的公共研究机构的1000名第一年级、一年级化学和心理学入门课程的STEM专业学生进行调查。该项目旨在产生来自潜在概况分析的逆境概况，这将指导调查逆境、动机和留在STEM领域的决定之间的联系。该项目旨在确定逆境的模式，并确定哪些特征与STEM持久性和成就有最强烈的联系，研究动机和绩效的纵向模式如何作为逆境的函数运作，并确定逆境特征和逆境水平如何随时间变化。将研究人口统计学差异以及STEM部门和大学之间的差异。该项目旨在推进逆境经历对STEM动机影响的知识，这些知识可用于开发针对那些STEM动机和表现受到多维逆境抑制的学生的干预措施。该项目由EHR核心研究计划资助，该计划支持以STEM学习和学习环境为重点的基础研究，扩大STEM的参与，以及STEM专业劳动力的发展。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。