Supporting Transfer Student Success Using a Multidisciplinary Approach

使用多学科方法支持转学生的成功

• 批准号: 2220844
• 负责人: Anna Grinath
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Idaho State University
• 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 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Transfer; Student; Success; Using

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Idaho State University. Over its 6-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 36-45 different full-time transfer students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, or Chemistry (BMBC). Four cohorts of scholars will receive up to two and a half years of scholarship support. To facilitate degree completion and transition to the STEM workforce, scholarship support will be coupled with other supports to structure scholars’ authentic participation in a multidisciplinary research community over time, including a research exploration course to highlight multidisciplinary strategies to diverse BMBC research problems, an undergraduate research experience, faculty and peer mentoring structures to promote scholars’ sense of belonging in the BMBC research community, and connections to post-graduation workforce and graduate program placement. This project has the potential to improve the STEM workforce by preparing scientist leaders for multidisciplinary teams who can identify emerging research areas and devise innovative solutions to problems across the biology-chemistry interface. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The specific objectives of this project are to provide scholarships to students transferring to a BMBC major at Idaho State University, improve transfer student retention and on-time graduation, and train scientist leaders of multidisciplinary teams. Transfer students face the specific challenge of transitioning to a new academic space with limited time to author their identities in relation to that space, which is important for student persistence in a discipline. To address this challenge, this project will draw on evidence-based approaches from two frameworks: communities of science practice and disciplinary identity. The project activities will be designed to support transfer students to author their multidisciplinary identities through participation in the BMBC community of science practice. This project has the potential to advance understanding of the effectiveness of these evidence-based approaches in this context for transfer student retention and graduation in BMBC majors and transition to the STEM workforce or graduate programs. The project will be evaluated based on the analysis of institutional data, scholar surveys, scholar focus group interviews, and faculty surveys. An external evaluator will conduct yearly formative assessment and a summative assessment at the end of the project to assess how the project meets the objectives. Results of this project will be disseminated through presentations at regional and national conferences, peer-reviewed publications, a dedicated section on the university website, university presentations, and department seminars. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income 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.

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员，通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在爱达荷州州立大学证明经济需要的保留和毕业。在6年的时间里，该项目将为36-45名攻读生物学，微生物学，生物化学或化学（BMBC）学士学位的全日制转学生提供奖学金。四批学者将获得长达两年半的奖学金支持。为了促进学位完成和过渡到STEM劳动力，奖学金支持将与其他支持相结合，以构建学者随着时间的推移真正参与多学科研究社区，包括研究探索课程，以突出多学科战略，以多样化的BMBC研究问题，本科研究经验，教师和同行指导结构，以促进学者在BMBC研究社区的归属感，并连接到毕业后的劳动力和研究生课程的位置。该项目有可能通过为多学科团队培养科学家领导人来提高STEM劳动力，这些团队可以识别新兴研究领域并为生物化学界面的问题设计创新解决方案。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生与证明财政需要完成STEM学位。该项目的具体目标是为在爱达荷州州立大学转入BMBC专业的学生提供奖学金，提高转学生的保留率和按时毕业率，并培养多学科团队的科学家领导人。转学生面临着过渡到一个新的学术空间的具体挑战，有限的时间来创作与该空间相关的身份，这对学生坚持一门学科很重要。为了应对这一挑战，该项目将借鉴两个框架的循证方法：科学实践社区和学科身份。该项目活动将旨在支持转学生通过参与BMBC科学实践社区来撰写他们的多学科身份。该项目有可能促进对这些循证方法在这种情况下的有效性的理解，以便在BMBC专业中转移学生的保留和毕业，并过渡到STEM劳动力或研究生课程。该项目将根据对机构数据、学者调查、学者焦点小组访谈和教师调查的分析进行评估。一名外部评估员将进行年度形成性评估，并在项目结束时进行总结性评估，以评估项目如何实现目标。该项目的成果将通过在区域和国家会议上的演讲、同行评审的出版物、大学网站上的专门部分、大学演讲和部门研讨会来传播。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。