Collaborative Research: HSI Pilot Project: Research for Improved Student Experiences in STEM (RISE in STEM)

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个轨道1项目，改善学生体验的研究（RISE）在STEM旨在促进学生在波多黎各泛美大学（IAUPR）的Ponce和Bayamon校区的STEM成功，通过实施改进的教学实践和学生支持选择介绍STEM课程。利用合作的本科生研究经验和学术建议，该计划旨在提高学生在“网关”实验室课程的成功率。两个校区将在这个项目中合作，为99%的西班牙裔学生，大多数是低收入和第一代大学生提供服务。通过提高这些入门课程的成功率，STEM项目的RISE将使这些学生能够坚持并成功获得STEM学位，从而扩大STEM的参与。此外，这一试点方案将产生证据，以支持轨道2的资金和扩大该方案的未来全系统的制度化在IAUPR的九个校区。 将在协作环境中设计和试行CURE实验室课程，实施学术培训，并举办教师发展讲习班，作为改善波多黎各美洲大学Ponce和Bayamon校区学生认识和成绩的机制。这个创新项目基于不同校园团队之间合作的重要性，为未来的STEM专业人士提供强大的学习体验，包括培养21世纪研究生学习和工作技能。预计学生发展心理和行为收益，如增加信心，自我效能，项目所有权，科学身份和归属感。许多这些心理“收益”是证据支持的指标，用于量化学生观念的变化，这些变化与提高STEM的保留率和毕业率有关。该项目将产生新的知识如何在CURES多校区，多教师，多同行领导者的协作模式，结合学术成就，可以有助于提高学生的看法和表现在HSIs。该计划的外部评估将在专门为试点计划设计的前/后测试中衡量学生对关键的循证结构（归属感，科学身份，自我效能感，对STEM的兴趣和坚持STEM的意图）的看法，并将生成初步的纵向数据。最后，学生的表现将通过准实验设计方法进行测量和分析，使用匹配的t检验比较治疗和非治疗的学生成绩，以产生程序影响的证据。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于不同的性质和背景下的HSIs，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（一）参与学生学习，（二）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（三）提高我们对如何在HSIs建立机构能力的理解。HSI计划所支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project, Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM aims to promote student success in STEM on the Ponce and Bayamon campuses of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico (IAUPR) by implementing improved teaching practices and student supports in select introductory STEM courses. Using collaborative undergraduate research experiences and academic advising, this program seeks improve student success rates in “gateway” lab courses. The two campuses that will collaborate in this project to serve a population of students that is 99% Hispanic, majority low-income and first-generation college students. By improving success rates in these gateway courses, the RISE in STEM project will allow these students to persist and succeed in STEM degree attainment, thereby broadening participation in STEM. Additionally, this pilot program will generate evidence to support track 2 funding and expansion of the program for its future system-wide institutionalization at IAUPR’s nine campuses. CURE-laboratory courses, in a collaborative setting, will be designed and piloted, academic advisement will be implemented, and faculty development workshops will be conducted as mechanisms for improving student perceptions and performance on the Ponce and Bayamon Campuses of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. This innovate project is based on the importance of collaborations between teams at different campuses which provide robust learning experiences for future STEM professionals, including developing skills for graduate studies and jobs in the 21st century. It is expected that students develop psychological and behavioral gains such as increased confidence, self-efficacy, project ownership, scientific identity and a sense of belonging. Many of these psychological “gains” are evidence-supported metrics for quantifying changes in student perceptions that are linked to improved retention and graduation rates in STEM. This project will generate new knowledge about how a multi-campus, multi-faculty, multi-peer leader collaborative model in CUREs, combined with academic advisement, can contribute to increased student perceptions and performance at HSIs. External evaluation of the program will measure student perceptions on key, evidence-based constructs (sense of belonging, science identity, self-efficacy, interest in STEM and intention to persist in STEM) in a pre/post-test designed specifically for the pilot program and will generate preliminary longitudinal data. Finally, student performance will be measured and analyzed via quasi-experimental design methods, comparing treatment and non-treatment student grades using matched t-tests to generate evidence of program impacts. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.