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

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，该实施和评估项目旨在建立少数族裔学生的STEM身份，并对他们的招生、坚持、毕业和进入STEM职业和/或研究生计划产生积极影响。尽管有大量的公共和私人投资，少数族裔学生在STEM领域的代表性不足。研究表明，积极、强大和有弹性的STEM身份认同可以转化为少数族裔学生更大的成功。这项名为“建立通向多元化的认同”(Build)的项目，将致力于通过重组学生的数学经历来减少数学焦虑，通过创造公平的机会增加对研究的参与，并创建一个欢迎和包容的社区，从而加强少数族裔学生的STEM认同。制定计划，展示其建立STEM身份的综合方法将导致STEM课程和学位的坚持性、成就和成就，并改善丹佛市州立大学(MSU Denver)未被充分代表的少数族裔STEM学生的整体文化，从而培养更多样化和更有准备的STEM劳动力。BUILD项目的具体目标是建立STEM身份，转化为在大学、研究生课程和STEM职业生涯中学习STEM；增加STEM专业中代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量并提高他们的毕业率；增加STEM职业生涯中代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量；并建立广泛的社区、校园和行业合作伙伴关系，以确保这一努力的可持续性。主要的BUILD研究问题：培养STEM认同感的活动和全面的学生服务是否与在STEM追求职业和研究生课程的少数族裔学生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建立活动和资源如何有助于未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的STEM身份。吸取的经验教训将应用于现有的项目，特别是密歇根州立大学丹佛分校提供的初中和高中课程，并与STEM教师、密歇根州立大学丹佛分校的顾问以及其他机构分享，扩大Build的影响。有助于建立数学焦虑、高影响力实践和STEM认同感的知识库的项目成果将通过出版物、会议演示、建立网站、社交媒体和其他数字平台进行传播。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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 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.