Targeted Infusion Project: Spelman Skills & Habits for Aspiring Physicists & Engineers (SHAPE) Program

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU- up）通过有针对性的输液项目支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，以改善HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）研究生课程和/或职业。Spelman有抱负的物理学家和工程师的技能和习惯（SHAPE）项目创建了一个夏季桥梁项目，提供工具和内容，帮助物理学学生在第一学年取得成功。夏季的非同步活动和面对面活动相结合，辅以学年会议，旨在维持夏季队列并突出职业选择。与大学水平的职业指导和社区支持努力合作，该项目将使学生有信心将物理学家或工程师纳入自己的身份，并抵制冒名顶替综合症。研究人员将通过调查和访谈数据来调查这些努力对学生身份、态度和自我效能感转变的影响。SHAPE计划的主要目标是：1)通过解决STEM/数学准备和包容性问题，增加在斯佩尔曼学院攻读和获得物理和/或工程学位的非裔美国女性的数量；2)通过向执业物理学家、工程师和校友提供机会，展示物理和工程方面的职业生涯；3)培养抗衡空间和实践社区（CoP），以创造学生对科学和物理身份的态度的积极变化，正如调查所证明的那样。比如科罗拉多对科学的学习态度调查（C-LASS），以及半结构化访谈。参与者将被邀请参加物理教师设计的虚拟和面对面的活动，这些活动将侧重于科学思维和物理课程内容。混合方法将提供调查、访谈、作业和参与数据，以更好地了解SHAPE项目的哪些方面在学术上有利于参与者，同时肯定他们作为科学家的角色。这个项目的结果也将导致其他机构可以为历史上被边缘化的学生培养抗衡空间的方式。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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based, innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. The Spelman Skills & Habits for Aspiring Physicists & Engineers (SHAPE) project creates a summer bridge program providing exposure to tools, and content that will help physics students succeed in their first academic year. A combination of asynchronous and in-person activities in the summer are supplemented by academic year meetings designed to maintain the summer cohort and highlight career choices. Working with college-level career guidance and community support efforts, the project will give students confidence to include being a physicist or engineer to their identity and resist imposter syndrome. Researchers will investigate the effects of these efforts on shifts in student identity, attitude, and self-efficacy through survey and interview data.The main objectives of the SHAPE Program are to: 1) increase the number of African American females pursuing and obtaining a degree in Physics and/or Engineering at Spelman College by addressing STEM/Math readiness and inclusivity, 2) demonstrate careers in Physics and Engineering by providing access to practicing physicists, engineers, and alumna, and 3) cultivate counterspaces and a Community of Practice (CoP) to create positive changes in student attitudes toward science and identities in physics, as evidenced in surveys, like the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (C-LASS), and semi-structured interviews. Participants will be invited to virtual and in-person activities designed by physics faculty members that will focus on scientific thinking and physics course content. A mixed-methods approach will provide survey, interview, assignment, and participation data to better understand what aspects of the SHAPE project benefit participant participants academically while affirming their role as a scientist. The results of this project will also lead to ways that other institutions can foster counterspaces for historically marginalized 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.