HSI Planning Project: Integrative Undergraduate STEM Education at Angelo State University (I-USE ASU)

HSI 规划项目：安杰洛州立大学 (I-USE ASU) 本科综合 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 2122828
• 负责人: Nicole Lozano
• 金额: $ 19.96万
• 依托单位: Angelo State 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: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Integrative; Undergraduate

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1: Planning Project: Integrative Undergraduate STEM Education at Angelo State University aims to identify the motivations and challenges that promising Latinx students face in their academic preparation and the impressions of their families, secondary school teachers and administrators towards STEM education and careers. The findings from this project will begin the process of guiding the development of new critical pathways in STEM that will embrace the motivations and address challenges to increase Latinx enrollment and completion of STEM degrees. Reducing the barriers and focusing on motivational approaches will help address the growing demand disparity that exists in the STEM workforce and will create an environment conducive for Latinx to thrive in their STEM education. Aligning with the numerous reports that have called for the reform of undergraduate education to improve student learning outcomes, persistence, and graduation rates for STEM students and leaders, this project recognizes that improvements other than coursework and teaching are needed to create student success, especially for minoritized students. These areas address the critical social and emotional components and the impact of barriers, implicit bias, and microaggression, which significantly influence student interest in pursuing STEM majors and careers, especially in Latinx, female, and historically underrepresented groups. Outcomes of this work will continue to refine existing supports and create pathways that meet students where they are in their college careers academically and socially through pathways that enable rather than disable the motivation of Latinx STEM students to succeed. The goal of this project is to identify the motivations for pursuing STEM at distinct stages of the academic career and the perception of family and community groups towards STEM education and careers among Latinx and historically underrepresented groups. The research questions include: 1) What are the diversion points for students leaving STEM fields? 2) How do families influence choices in career and education? and 3) How do community members influence choices in career and education? A mixed-method approach will ascertain findings from key constituents that will determine the key metrics needed to redesign the college STEM pipeline to a student-focused guided critical pathway approach. The expected results will reveal the negative impact of a traditionally offered STEM academic program on promising Latinx STEM students. The work will be disseminated through publications, conferences, and white papers, and through website communication. 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.

从改善本科STEM教育的支持：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个轨道1：规划项目：综合本科STEM教育在安杰洛州立大学的目的是确定有前途的拉丁裔学生面临的动机和挑战，在他们的学术准备和他们的家庭，中学教师和管理人员对干教育和职业的印象。该项目的研究结果将开始指导STEM新的关键途径的发展过程，这些途径将包含动机并解决增加Latinx入学率和完成STEM学位的挑战。减少障碍和专注于激励方法将有助于解决STEM劳动力中存在的日益增长的需求差距，并将创造一个有利于Latinx在STEM教育中蓬勃发展的环境。许多报告呼吁对本科教育进行改革，以提高STEM学生和领导者的学习成果、坚持性和毕业率，与此相一致，该项目认识到，要创造学生的成功，特别是少数民族学生的成功，需要改进课程和教学以外的其他方面。 这些领域解决了关键的社会和情感因素以及障碍，内隐偏见和微侵略的影响，这显着影响学生追求STEM专业和职业的兴趣，特别是在拉丁裔，女性和历史上代表性不足的群体。这项工作的成果将继续完善现有的支持和创造途径，满足学生在那里他们在他们的大学生涯学术和社会通过途径，使而不是禁用的动机Latinx STEM学生取得成功。该项目的目标是确定在学术生涯的不同阶段追求STEM的动机，以及家庭和社区团体对拉丁裔和历史上代表性不足的群体中STEM教育和职业的看法。研究问题包括：1）学生离开STEM领域的分流点是什么？2)家庭如何影响职业和教育的选择？社区成员如何影响职业和教育的选择？混合方法方法将确定关键组成部分的调查结果，这些组成部分将确定将大学STEM管道重新设计为以学生为中心的指导关键途径方法所需的关键指标。预期的结果将揭示传统提供的STEM学术课程对有前途的Latinx STEM学生的负面影响。这项工作将通过出版物、会议和白色文件以及通过网站传播。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。