HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Building STEM identity to improve persistence, graduation and progression into STEM careers for diverse students

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，该实施和评估项目旨在建立少数民族学生的STEM身份，并对他们的招聘、坚持、毕业和进入STEM职业和/或研究生课程产生积极影响。尽管有大量的公共和私人投资，但少数族裔学生在STEM领域的代表性不足。研究表明，积极、强大、有弹性的STEM身份可以为少数族裔学生带来更大的成功。该项目名为“构建认同导致多样性”（BUILD），将努力通过重塑学生的数学体验来减少数学焦虑，通过创造公平的机会来增加对研究的参与，以及创建一个欢迎和包容的社区，来增强少数民族学生的STEM认同。BUILD计划证明其建立STEM身份的综合方法将导致STEM课程和学位的坚持，成就和成就，并改善丹佛大都会州立大学（MSU Denver）代表性不足的少数族裔STEM学生的整体文化，从而形成更加多样化和准备充分的STEM劳动力。BUILD项目的具体目标是建立STEM身份，为大学、研究生课程和STEM职业的STEM学习做好准备；增加STEM专业中代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量，提高他们的毕业率；增加STEM职业中代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量；建立广泛的社区、校园和行业伙伴关系，以确保这一努力的可持续性。一个主要的BUILD研究问题：培养STEM身份的活动和综合学生服务是否与代表性不足的少数民族学生在追求STEM职业和研究生课程时更广泛的参与和改善教育指标相关？将使用混合方法评估过程来研究BUILD活动和资源如何促进代表性不足的少数民族学生的STEM身份。吸取的经验教训将应用于现有的项目，特别是通过MSU丹佛提供的初中和高中衔接课程，并与STEM教师，MSU丹佛的顾问以及其他机构共享，扩大BUILD的影响。有助于建立数学焦虑、高影响力实践和STEM身份知识库的项目结果将通过出版物、会议演讲、BUILD网站、社交媒体和其他数字平台传播。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Implementation and Evaluation project aims to build the STEM identity of minority students and positively impact their recruitment, persistence, graduation, and progression into STEM careers and/or graduate programs. Despite significant public and private investment, minority students are underrepresented in STEM fields. Research shows a positive, strong, and resilient STEM identity can translate into greater success for minority students. This project, Building Identity Leading to Diversity (BUILD), will strive to bolster minority students' STEM identity through reframing student mathematics experiences to reduce math anxiety, increasing participation in research by creating equitable opportunities, and creating a welcoming and inclusive community. BUILD plans to demonstrate that its comprehensive approach to building STEM identity will lead to persistence, achievement and attainment in STEM classes and degrees as well as improve the overall culture for underrepresented minority STEM students at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver), resulting in a more diverse and prepared STEM workforce. Specific aims of the BUILD project are to build STEM identity translating to readiness for STEM studies in college, graduate programs and STEM careers; increase the number of underrepresented minority students in STEM majors and improve their graduation rate; increase the number of underrepresented minority students in STEM careers; and build wide-ranging community, campus, and industry partnerships to ensure the sustainability of this effort. A primary BUILD research question: Do activities and comprehensive student services developing STEM identity correlate to broader participation and improve educational metrics in underrepresented minority students as they pursue careers and graduate programs in STEM? A mixed methodology evaluation process will be used to study how BUILD activities and resources contribute to underrepresented minority students’ STEM identity. Lessons learned will be applied to existing projects, specifically middle and high school pathway programs offered through MSU Denver and shared with STEM faculty, advisors within MSU Denver as well as other institutions, expanding BUILD’s impact. Project results that contribute to the knowledge base about math anxiety, high impact practices and STEM identity will be disseminated through publications, conference presentations, BUILD website, social media and other digital platforms. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also 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.