GP-UP: Geoscience Engagement: Growing Interest at Hispanic-Serving Institutions by Scaffolding Classroom Intervention to Service-Learning Projects

GP-UP：地球科学参与：通过对服务学习项目进行支架课堂干预来提高对西班牙裔服务机构的兴趣

• 批准号: 2119446
• 负责人: Judith Haschenburger
• 金额: $ 34.71万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; UP; Geoscience; Engagement; Growing

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Despite concerted effort over the last two decades, the size and diversity of the geoscience workforce has not significantly changed to meet the projected demand for geoscientists, which has major consequences for the sustainability of natural resources and overall environmental quality that supports a strong economy and ensures the health and welfare of all United States residents. This project aims to address this shortfall using an innovative curriculum program to recruit and retain more undergraduate students from historically excluded groups; it will promote interest in geoscience within 2-year institutions where geoscience courses are limited and facilitate transfer pathways from 2- to 4-year institutions and retention to degree completion so students earn the educational credential needed to enter the geoscience workforce. The new insights gained from the program will form a model of best practices that can be adapted and implemented at other universities to grow a larger, more diverse geoscience workforce.This project aims to broaden participation and enhance retention in geoscience by implementing and testing the effectiveness of a three-stage early intervention strategy within the undergraduate degree arena. Conducted at the Hispanic Serving Institutions of Northwest Vista College and the University of Texas at San Antonio, the three-year program will generate greater awareness of and interest in geoscience in introductory STEM courses and promote retention through extracurricular service-learning projects. In introductory geoscience, chemistry, and physics courses, four modules will test the effectiveness of a recruitment strategy that targets specific barriers and motivations to broaden and diversify the pool of geoscience majors and minors. Participants will be supported by multi-level mentoring, advising, a transfer bridging event, and stipends; a program-specific interactive website will facilitate formal and informal learning and interactions between students, faculty, professionals, and community. The project design permits a critical test of a recruitment approach that targets a wider pool of potential majors and the critical elements of service-learning projects that promote learning and retention. The new knowledge identified from formative and summative program assessments will be widely transferrable because it focuses on introductory courses that are generally offered at many institutions and experiential learning experiences that can flourish independently from formal coursework.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。尽管在过去20年里做出了共同努力，但地球科学劳动力的规模和多样性并没有显著改变，以满足对地球科学家的预期需求，这对自然资源的可持续性和支持强劲经济并确保所有美国居民的健康和福利的整体环境质量产生了重大影响。该项目旨在通过创新的课程计划来招收和留住更多来自历史上被排斥群体的本科生；它将在地球科学课程有限的两年制院校中促进对地球科学的兴趣，并促进从两年制院校到四年制院校的转学途径以及留校到学位完成，从而使学生获得进入地球科学劳动力所需的教育证书。从该计划中获得的新见解将形成一个最佳实践模式，可以在其他大学采用和实施，以发展更大、更多样化的地球科学工作队伍。该项目旨在通过在本科学位范围内实施和测试三阶段早期干预战略的有效性，扩大对地球科学的参与并增强其留存。这项为期三年的计划在西北维斯塔学院和圣安东尼奥的德克萨斯大学的拉美裔服务机构进行，将在STEM入门课程中提高人们对地球科学的认识和兴趣，并通过课外服务学习项目促进留住。在地球科学、化学和物理入门课程中，四个模块将测试针对特定障碍和动机的招聘战略的有效性，以扩大和多样化地球科学专业和辅修生的人才库。参与者将得到多层次的指导、建议、转学衔接活动和津贴的支持；一个特定于项目的互动网站将促进学生、教师、专业人员和社区之间的正式和非正式学习和互动。项目设计允许对以更广泛的潜在专业和促进学习和保留的服务学习项目的关键要素为目标的招聘方法进行关键测试。从形成性和终结性项目评估中确定的新知识将被广泛转移，因为它侧重于许多机构普遍提供的入门课程，以及可以独立于正式课程而蓬勃发展的体验式学习体验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。