Exploring Student Service Member/Veteran STEM Career Persistence Longitudinally and in Military-Centric Contexts

纵向和以军事为中心的背景下探索学生服务成员/退伍军人 STEM 职业持续性

• 批准号: 2201495
• 负责人: Ross Benbow
• 金额: $ 144.37万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2201495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Student; Service; Member; Veteran

The project expands a prior study by examining the links between social support networks and persistence along STEM career pathways among “student service members/veterans,” defined as undergraduate students who are retired/discharged military veterans. Building on current surveys in the State of Wisconsin, the study extends the data collection along three dimensions. First is longitudinally along the population’s academic trajectories encompassing several data collection points over five years. Second is contextually by adding a new cohort of student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs) from diverse geographically dispersed military institutions. Third is comparatively by examining STEM and non-STEM career pathways and social support characteristics among student service members/veterans in Wisconsin and in military-centric institutions, as well as between SSM/Vs and non SSM/V undergraduates. The research focuses on an understudied nontraditional student population and has the potential to broaden and strengthen the STEM workforce.The investigators frame the study conceptually with the theory of social capital supplemented with asset-based concepts to model the support students receive through their social networks as empirically measured resources. The study will answer three sets of research questions. First: How do SSM/W social support networks change as Wisconsin SSW/Vs move further along STEM career pathways; how do network patterns and changes influence STEM career pathway persistence; and how do SSM/Vs perceive these changes over time? Second: How do SSM/V networks change as those in military-centric contexts traverse STEM career pathways; how do network patterns and changes influence STEM career pathway persistence; and how do they perceive these changes over time? Third: How do social support networks, career pathways, and links between the two over time compare among Wisconsin SSM/Vs, SSM/Vs in military-centric contexts, and non-SSM/Vs in STEM and non-STEM fields? The project advances equity-oriented scholarship in STEM education and career development concerning the ways temporal, institutional, geographic, and experiential factors influence nontraditional student pathways in STEM.The project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program that supports fundamental research focused on STEM education learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM education, and STEM workforce development.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.

该项目扩展了以前的研究，通过检查社会支持网络和持久性之间的联系沿着STEM职业道路之间的“学生服务成员/退伍军人”，定义为本科生谁是退休/出院的退伍军人。在威斯康星州目前的调查的基础上，该研究扩展了数据收集沿着三个维度。首先是纵向沿着人口的学术轨迹，包括五年内的几个数据收集点。第二种是通过增加一个新的学生服务成员/退伍军人（SSM/V）从不同的地理分散的军事机构的队列。第三是比较研究干和非干职业道路和社会支持的特点之间的学生服务成员/退伍军人在威斯康星州和军事为中心的机构，以及SSM/V和非SSM/V本科生。本研究以未充分研究的非传统学生群体为研究对象，具有扩大和加强STEM劳动力的潜力。研究者将社会资本理论与基于资产的概念相结合，对学生通过社交网络获得的支持进行建模，并将其作为经验测量资源。该研究将回答三组研究问题。第一个：SSM/W社会支持网络如何随着威斯康星州SSW/Vs进一步沿着STEM职业道路而变化;网络模式和变化如何影响STEM职业道路的持久性;以及SSM/Vs如何随着时间的推移感知这些变化？第二个：SSM/V网络如何随着以军事为中心的环境中的人穿越STEM职业道路而变化？网络模式和变化如何影响STEM职业道路的持续性？随着时间的推移，他们如何看待这些变化？第三：如何社会支持网络，职业道路，以及两者之间的联系随着时间的推移比较威斯康星州SSM/Vs，SSM/Vs在军事为中心的背景下，和非SSM/Vs在干和非干领域？该项目推进了STEM教育和职业发展中的公平奖学金，涉及时间，制度，地理和经验因素影响STEM非传统学生途径的方式。该项目由EHR核心研究（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持专注于STEM教育学习和学习环境的基础研究，扩大STEM教育的参与，该奖项反映了NSF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。