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

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这一轨道1：规划项目：安吉洛州立大学的一体化本科生STEM教育旨在确定有前途的拉丁裔学生在学业准备中面临的动机和挑战，以及他们的家庭、中学教师和管理人员对STEM教育和职业的印象。该项目的发现将开始指导STEM发展新的关键途径的进程，这些途径将包含增加拉丁裔入学人数和STEM学位完成的动机和挑战。减少障碍并专注于激励方法将有助于解决STEM劳动力中存在的日益扩大的需求差距，并将为拉美裔在其STEM教育中蓬勃发展创造一个有利的环境。与呼吁改革本科教育以提高STEM学生和领导者的学习成果、毅力和毕业率的众多报告相一致，该项目认识到，需要改进课程和教学以外的其他方面来创造学生的成功，特别是对小学生来说。这些领域涉及关键的社会和情感因素以及障碍、隐性偏见和微攻击性的影响，这些因素显著影响学生攻读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中。这项工作的成果将继续完善现有的支持，并通过支持而不是削弱Latinx STEM学生的成功动机的途径，创建满足学生在大学职业生涯中的学业和社会需求的途径。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，以及拉丁裔和历史上代表性不足的群体中家庭和社区群体对STEM教育和职业的看法。研究问题包括：1)学生离开STEM领域的转向点是什么？2)家庭是如何影响职业和教育选择的？3)社区成员如何影响职业和教育的选择？混合方法将确定关键组成部分的调查结果，这些关键指标将确定重新设计大学STEM管道所需的关键指标，以实现以学生为中心的指导关键路径方法。预期的结果将揭示传统上提供的STEM学术项目对有前途的拉丁裔STEM学生的负面影响。这项工作将通过出版物、会议和白皮书以及网站交流进行传播。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。鉴于高等教育机构的不同性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法，以激励机构和社区的变革，并促进基础研究(I)关于学生参与式学习，(Ii)关于如何有效地多样化和增加对STEM的参与，以及(Iii)提高我们对如何建设高等教育机构能力的理解。HSI计划支持的项目也将从这些方法中获得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。

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.