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EAGER: Peering a generation into the future: NSF's Young Scholars Program and the nation’s STEM workforce

EAGER：展望一代人的未来：NSF 的青年学者计划和国家的 STEM 劳动力

基本信息

批准号：
2109443
负责人：
Eric Hamilton
金额：
$ 30万
依托单位：
Pepperdine University
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：
2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2109443&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER Peering generation into future

项目摘要

The first pre-college programs that the National Science Foundation (NSF) administered when it restarted pre-college education funding in 1988 included the Young Scholars Program (YSP). The YSP reflected NSF’s intention to reach high-achieving students and to increase the likelihood that they would subsequently enter science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors and the STEM workforce. YSP targeted adolescents, grades 7-12, with summer, weekend, and after-school enrichment programs. It made just over 600 awards to 316 separate projects between FY88 and FY96, involving approximately 18,000 students. A significant fraction of these YSP participants is now part of the national STEM workforce. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many of these participants would not have pursued a STEM career without their YSP involvement. The major purpose of this project is to assess and document YSP's actual impact on the national STEM workforce. A priority interest in doing so involves current STEM workforce participation of Black, Latinx, Native American, and female individuals, and the relationship between their YSP participation and later career pathways. Using archival records and social media, the project team will contact as many YSP alumni as possible, seeking participation both in online surveys and in interviews. Probing current professionals about the impact of programs they participated in during middle or secondary school a quarter century ago is an opportunity that could not have been realistically contemplated when the program was in operation. This project allows a fast-forward view to see how strategies played out, by directly communicating with participants and creating analyses that can inform current and future programming.The project will apply several techniques for contacting former YSP students, reaching out to former YSP host institutions and project directors, multiple internet search methods, and snowball sampling. Surveys and interviews will be shaped by social-cognitive career theory, epistemic frame theory, and interest-driven creator theory. The project will contribute to the research literature associated with these theories, with deliverables that reflect analysis and synthesis of the surveys and interviews. It will also furnish research- and historically, grounded guidance for current programs by NSF and other organizations to create a sophisticated and inclusive future STEM workforce. This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.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.

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）在1988年重新启动大学预科教育资金时管理的第一批大学预科项目包括青年学者项目（YSP）。YSP反映了NSF的意图，即接触成绩优异的学生，并增加他们随后进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）专业和STEM劳动力的可能性。青年支助方案以7-12年级的青少年为目标，提供暑期、周末和课后充实方案。它在88财政年度和96财政年度之间向316个单独的项目颁发了600多个奖项，涉及大约18，000名学生。这些YSP参与者中的很大一部分现在是国家STEM劳动力的一部分。轶事证据表明，如果没有YSP的参与，这些参与者中的许多人就不会从事STEM职业。该项目的主要目的是评估和记录YSP对国家STEM劳动力的实际影响。这样做的优先兴趣涉及黑人，拉丁美洲人，美洲原住民和女性个人目前的STEM劳动力参与，以及他们的YSP参与和以后的职业道路之间的关系。利用档案记录和社交媒体，项目团队将尽可能多地联系YSP校友，寻求参与在线调查和访谈。探讨当前的专业人士对他们在四分之一世纪前的中学或中学期间参加的项目的影响是一个机会，在该项目实施时是不可能现实地考虑到的。该项目通过与参与者直接沟通，并创建可为当前和未来规划提供信息的分析，允许快速查看策略如何发挥作用。该项目将应用多种技术联系前YSP学生，接触前YSP主办机构和项目负责人，多种互联网搜索方法和滚雪球抽样。调查和采访将受到社会认知职业理论、认识框架理论和兴趣驱动的创造者理论的影响。该项目将有助于与这些理论相关的研究文献，并提供反映调查和访谈分析和综合的成果。它还将为NSF和其他组织的当前计划提供研究和历史基础指导，以创建一个复杂和包容的未来STEM劳动力。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划资助，该计划支持建立对实践，计划元素，背景和过程的理解的项目，有助于增加学生对科学，技术，工程，信息和通信技术（ICT）该奖项反映了NSF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。