Improving Degree Completion and Transfer Rates in Computer Science Through Direct Student Supports and Scholarships

通过直接的学生支持和奖学金提高计算机科学的学位完成率和转学率

• 批准号: 2130447
• 负责人: Kasey Nguyen
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Riverside Community College District/Moreno Valley Campus
• 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: 2022-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130447&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Degree; Completion; Transfer; Rates

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Moreno Valley Community College, a Hispanic Serving Institution. Through the creation of the Computer Science Scholars Program (CSSP), Moreno Valley Community College will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Moreno Valley College. Over its six-year duration, CSSP will provide scholarships to 60 low-income undergraduate students who are pursuing an associate degree or intend to transfer to a university to complete a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems. Students will receive up to three years of scholarship support. The project aims to increase student persistence in STEM fields by linking scholarships with effective support activities, including mentoring, undergraduate research experiences, internships, transfer and career preparation, and participation in discipline-specific workshops and activities. With the help of mentors, scholars will create education plans that outline their academic and career goals and the necessary steps toward achieving those goals. Because Moreno Valley College has a large population of low-income students and students from groups that have been historically underrepresented in computer science, this project has the potential to broaden participation of students in computer science and study the impact of faculty mentoring on this population.The overall goal of the project is to improve the degree completion rate for low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields. There are five specific objectives: 1) increase scholars’ retention rates and persistence rates; 2) improve student success in advanced mathematics courses; 3) improve degree completion rates in STEM; 4) improve transfer rates to a baccalaureate program in STEM; and 5) increase the number of individuals entering the STEM workforce within 18 months of program completion. This program is the result of the significant achievement gaps in student enrollment and success in MVC’s Computer Science and Computer Information Systems programs. Presently, the program is not graduating or transferring the number of students necessary to meet workforce needs in this growing field. This project will investigate the effects of robust student support services and financial assistance on the success of Computer Science and Computer Information Systems students. The evaluation of CSSP will investigate the effectiveness of project activities through formative and summative measures. While the formative evaluation will focus on process and project fidelity, the summative evaluation will examine to what extent the project has positively impacted student success in Computer Science. Results of this project will be made available by the PI and Co-PI, who will disseminate project results on a local, regional, statewide, and national level by presenting project findings at meetings and conferences. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need to earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需求，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明在莫雷诺谷社区学院，西班牙裔服务机构的经济需要。 通过计算机科学学者计划（CSSP）的创建，莫雷诺谷社区学院将支持在莫雷诺谷学院表现出经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。 CSSP将在六年的时间里为60名正在攻读副学士学位或打算转入大学完成计算机科学或计算机信息系统学士学位的低收入本科生提供奖学金。 学生将获得长达三年的奖学金支持。 该项目旨在通过将奖学金与有效的支持活动联系起来，包括指导，本科生研究经验，实习，转学和职业准备，以及参加特定学科的研讨会和活动，来提高学生在STEM领域的坚持性。在导师的帮助下，学者将制定教育计划，概述他们的学术和职业目标以及实现这些目标的必要步骤。由于莫雷诺谷学院有大量的低收入学生和来自历史上在计算机科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生，该项目有可能扩大学生对计算机科学的参与，并研究教师指导对这一人群的影响。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就本科生在STEM领域的学位完成率。 有五个具体目标：1）提高学者的保留率和持续率; 2）提高学生在高等数学课程中的成功率; 3）提高STEM学位完成率; 4）提高STEM学士学位课程的转移率;以及5）增加计划完成后18个月内进入STEM劳动力的人数。 该计划是学生入学和MVC计算机科学和计算机信息系统计划成功的重大成就差距的结果。 目前，该计划没有毕业或转移必要的学生数量，以满足这一不断增长的领域的劳动力需求。 该项目将调查强大的学生支持服务和经济援助对计算机科学和计算机信息系统学生的成功的影响。 CSSP的评估将通过形成性和总结性措施调查项目活动的有效性。 虽然形成性评价将侧重于过程和项目的保真度，但总结性评价将检查项目在多大程度上对学生在计算机科学方面的成功产生了积极影响。 主要研究者和共同主要研究者将公布本项目的成果，并通过在各种会议上介绍项目成果，在地方、区域、全州和国家各级传播项目成果。 该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生证明需要获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。