Measuring the Social Networks and Community Cultural Wealth of Latina/o STEM Undergraduates

该项目是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的社会科学家与德克萨斯大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）的科学家之间的合作，旨在了解拉丁美洲学生为他们的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和职业带来的资产。虽然拉丁裔本科生计划进入STEM的速度相当于或超过其他种族/族裔群体的同龄人，但他们在STEM劳动力和STEM学位获得者中的代表性不足。作为对赤字为基础的研究，调查这些差异，强调什么拉丁裔学生缺乏，本研究的重点是社区文化资源拉丁裔学生带来他们的教育和职业生涯。通过绘制拉丁美洲学生的社交网络，衡量他们的社区文化财富（CCW），记录他们的经验与干研究，并跟踪他们的专业身份的变化，因为他们从大三到大四，然后进入劳动力或进入干研究生课程，该项目将推进的方式8 LSAMP机构可以制度化本科STEM教育的支持结构。 该项目团队将记录一组拉丁美洲/O学生的经验和关系，每年秋天在3年的过程中，并将采用新的定量技术来评估他们的CCW在他们的大学到职业生涯的过渡。纵向混合法设计是最早将联合收割机逆时针与自我网络分析相结合的方法之一。这不仅扩展了STEM教育研究人员可用的认识论和方法论，而且更广泛地说，可以告知高等教育机构，因为他们开发了基于CCW和社交网络的STEM编程，这对拉丁美洲/o本科STEM教育至关重要。最后，这个项目说明了多样化的机构和合作伙伴关系的西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs）和新兴的HSIs可以有，鉴于他们将继续见证拉丁裔学生追求他们的中学后教育的集体种族化的经验的重要性.这个合作项目是通过STEM教育计划种族公平资助（EHR种族公平）.该计划支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目旨在集中STEM企业内受系统性不平等影响最大的个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验。该计划符合NSF的核心价值观，即支持来自全国人口群体，地区和组织类型多样性的优秀研究人员和创新思想家。EHR种族平等基金来自EHR各项目，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和开发目标的一致性。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。

This project is a collaboration between social scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and scientists within the University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) aimed at understanding the assets Latinx students bring to their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Although Latinx undergraduates plan to enter STEM at rates equivalent to or exceeding those of their peers from other racial/ethnic groups, they are underrepresented in the STEM workforce and among degree recipients in STEM. As a counter to deficit-based studies that investigate these discrepancies by emphasizing what Latinx students lack, this study focuses on the community cultural resources Latinx students bring to their education and careers. By mapping Latinx students’ social networks, measuring their community cultural wealth (CCW), documenting their experiences with STEM research, and tracking changes in their professional identity as they move from their junior to senior year and then out into the work6force or into STEM graduate programs, this project will advance the ways eight LSAMP institutions can institutionalize supportive structures for undergraduate STEM education. The project team will document the experiences and relationships of a group of Latina/o students each fall over the course of 3 years, and will employ new quantitative techniques for assessing their CCW during their college-to-career transition. The longitudinal mixed method design is among the first to combine CCW with ego network analysis. This not only expands the epistemologies and methodologies available to STEM education researchers, but more broadly speaking, can inform institutions of higher education as they develop the CCW- and social network-based STEM programming that is critical to Latina/o undergraduate STEM education. Finally, this project illustrates the importance of diversifying the range of institutions and partnerships Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs can have, given they will continue to bear witness to the collective racialized experiences of Latinx students pursuing their post-secondary education.This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EHR Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EHR Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EHR in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.