Recognizing Science Scholars' Potential through Access and Engagement

通过接触和参与认识科学学者的潜力

• 批准号: 2130501
• 负责人: Kristyn VanderWaal Mills
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Saint Paul College-A community & Technical College
• 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: 2021-11-15 至 2027-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recognizing; Science; Scholars; Potential; through

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 Saint Paul College, an urban community and technical college with a large population of students from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Over its six-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to approximately 80 unique full and part time students who are pursuing associates degrees primarily in Science and Engineering Technology. Students will be awarded up to $16,000 over up to eight semesters, including summer. The “Science Scholar” students participate in relationship-building co-curricular activities: faculty and peer mentoring, science-related campus events and service-learning activities, and a semester long undergraduate research project. The Science and Engineering Technology A.S. program encourages transfer or entrance to the workforce, so students can work while continuing towards their B.S, degree. The educational research on the effect of the project on student success, experience, and career choice will help inform science education and co-curricular engagement at many two-year schools with a diverse student pool.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The first major objective is to recruit and award scholarships to these students, using internal recruitment strategies and partnerships with area high schools. The project will also increase participation of students from groups underrepresented in STEM due to the diversity in the pool of potential students. The recruitment events at partner high schools will expose high school students to STEM career opportunities and solidify a pipeline of students coming to the two-year institution. The scholarship amount is approximately the cost of tuition and fees for a full-time student, so the first expected outcome is the scholarships will increase the number of students completing an A.S. degree. The second objective is to add the relationship-building, co-curricular, high impact practices (HIPs) to the scholarship program. Previous research, mainly performed at universities, suggests scholarships combined with support services increased student success and promote access. Hence, an expected second outcome is an increase in retention and student success. The third objective is to perform and disseminate educational research on the effectiveness of the scholarship/HIPs on student success (course success, retention, and graduation/transfer), science attitudes, and career choice. A mixed- methods approach will link survey responses to student records, and the focus groups will give context to the quantitative data. Further, there is a notable gap of applied science education research coming from two-year institutions. The dissemination of the project findings, the third project outcome, will play a small role in closing this gap. 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 who 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.

该项目将有助于国家对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，这些学生在圣保罗学院表现出经济需求，圣保罗学院是一所城市社区和技术学院，拥有大量来自传统上在STEM中代表性不足的人口的学生。在六年的时间里，该项目将为大约80名正在攻读科学和工程技术副学士学位的全日制和非全日制学生提供奖学金。学生将获得高达$16，000超过八个学期，包括夏季。“科学学者”的学生参加建立关系的课外活动：教师和同行指导，科学相关的校园活动和服务学习活动，以及一个学期的本科研究项目。美国科学与工程技术协会该计划鼓励转移或进入劳动力市场，因此学生可以在继续攻读B. S学位的同时工作。关于该项目对学生成功、经验和职业选择的影响的教育研究将有助于为许多拥有多样化学生库的两年制学校的科学教育和课外活动提供信息。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。第一个主要目标是利用内部招聘战略和与地区高中的伙伴关系，招聘并向这些学生颁发奖学金。该项目还将增加来自STEM代表性不足的群体的学生的参与，因为潜在学生的多样性。在合作伙伴高中的招聘活动将使高中生接触到STEM职业机会，并巩固学生来到两年制机构的管道。奖学金的金额大约是全日制学生的学费和杂费，所以第一个预期的结果是奖学金将增加完成A.S.的学生人数。℃下第二个目标是增加关系建设，共同课程，高影响力的做法（HIPs）的奖学金计划。以前的研究，主要是在大学进行的，表明奖学金与支持服务相结合，提高了学生的成功和促进访问。因此，预期的第二个结果是增加保留和学生的成功。第三个目标是开展和传播关于奖学金/HIP对学生成功（课程成功，保留和毕业/转学），科学态度和职业选择的有效性的教育研究。一种混合方法将把调查答复与学生记录联系起来，焦点小组将为定量数据提供背景。此外，来自两年制院校的应用科学教育研究存在明显差距。项目的第三项成果----项目调查结果的传播，将在缩小这一差距方面发挥微小的作用。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，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。