Broadening the Participation and Persistence of Women in STEM Through Virtual Peer Mentoring

通过虚拟同伴指导扩大女性对 STEM 的参与和坚持

• 批准号: 2215084
• 负责人: Amanda Rockinson
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Memphis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Persistence; Women; STEM

This project aims to serve the national interest by broadening participation and persistence of women in STEM, especially women from diverse racial populations. The project plans to develop and assess a virtual peer mentoring model. This model is unique both in being virtual and in engaging women in peer mentoring outside the context of STEM research laboratories. Peer mentoring activities will address social, affective, cognitive, and persistence-related challenges experienced by women in STEM. Little is known about the impact of virtual peer mentoring approaches in STEM, and results from the model could be widely relevant and adapted in a variety of institution types and professional settings. This project at the University of Memphis aims to develop and assess the efficacy of a virtual peer mentoring model with women in residential and online STEM programs. Situated in this urban, public institution, the project plans to to develop and test this mentoring intervention among women students from diverse racial and personal backgrounds. The project will adapt an existing peer mentoring program for women in STEM that has only previously been tested in limited contexts. The current effort should generate knowledge about the efficacy of the model with a more diverse participant population. Additionally, this virtual peer mentoring model will be assessed in two phases. During the first phase, a mixed-methods study using survey and interview methods will guide program content and virtual interface development. During the second phase, a rigorous, randomized controlled trial approach will be used to examine the efficacy of the implementation of the virtual peer mentoring model with BIPOC and White women. Specifically, social, affective, cognitive, and persistence-related outcomes will be compared between virtual peer mentoring participants and a matched control group. Further, the project will use a case study approach to identify differential participant outcomes and to determine how the components of the model facilitated these outcomes. Evaluation of the project will be conducted by the campus’s Center for Research in Educational Policy. Dissemination of developed mentoring materials and research results will be accomplished through conference presentations, peer-reviewed publications, and content sharing via the project’s website and video channel. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目旨在通过扩大妇女在STEM中的参与和持久性，尤其是来自潜水员种族种族的妇女的持久性来满足国家利益。该项目计划开发和评估虚拟同伴心理模型。这种模型在虚拟和使女性在STEM研究实验室之外的同伴心理方面都是独一无二的。同伴心理活动将解决妇女在STEM中经历的社会，情感，认知和与持久性有关的挑战。关于虚拟同伴心理方法在STEM中的影响知之甚少，该模型的结果可能是广泛相关的，并且可以在各种机构类型和专业环境中进行适应。孟菲斯大学的该项目旨在开发和评估与居住和在线STEM计划中的女性的虚拟同伴心理模型的效率。该项目被认为是在这个城市公共机构中，计划在来自潜水员种族和个人背景的女学生中开发和测试这种心理干预。该项目将适应STEM中现有的针对女性的同伴心理计划，该计划以前仅在有限的情况下进行了测试。当前的努力应具有有关模型效率的知识。此外，该虚拟同伴心理模型将以两个阶段进行评估。在第一阶段，使用调查和访谈方法的混合方法研究将指导程序内容和虚拟接口开发。在第二阶段，将使用一种严格的随机对照试验方法来检查使用BIPOC和白人女性实施虚拟同伴心理模型的有效性。具体而言，将在虚拟的心理参与者和匹配的对照组之间比较社会，情感，认知和持久性结果。此外，该项目将使用案例研究方法来识别差异参与者的结果，并确定模型的组成部分如何准备这些结果。该项目的评估将由校园教育政策研究中心进行。将通过会议演讲，经过同行评审的出版物以及通过项目的网站和视频频道共享的内容来实现开发的心理材料和研究结果的传播。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习轨道，该计划支持了承诺实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。