Supporting Science, Mathematics, and Statistics Majors for University Success and Beyond

支持科学、数学和统计学专业的大学成功及未来发展

• 批准号: 2221277
• 负责人: Mindy Capaldi
• 金额: $ 143.35万
• 依托单位: James Madison 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=2221277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Science; Mathematics; Statistics; Majors

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 James Madison University, a primarily undergraduate institution. The project will fund scholarships or $10,000 each year for up to four years to 22 students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in biology, biotechnology, chemistry, biophysical chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, and/or statistics. The project will use a comprehensive support structure to improve student retention and graduation rates. That structure will consist of several pairs of linked co-curricular supports. First is a summer transition program for incoming first-year students which will be leveraged by integrated semester-based seminars emphasizing cohort building. Second is a network of faculty and student mentors which will tie into early and continuing research opportunities with faculty mentorship. Finally, STEM career exploration and preparation will pair with enhanced academic and non-academic support services. Additionally, the project will conduct outreach activities linked to the support program and explore their impact on public scientific literacy. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The objectives of the project are to enroll 22 Scholars in two cohorts of 11 students; retain 85% of the scholars until their second year; graduate at least 70% of them in four years; and place 90% of the graduates in STEM-related careers or graduate school. This project will encompass a four-year, integrated student experience built around support structures, including summer bridge programs; faculty mentoring; research experiences; academic and career advising; peer tutoring; and seminars focused on refining skills needed for academic success. The project will determine if and how these structures improve a student’s sense of belonging, self-efficacy, engagement, and ultimately, retention, graduation, and employment. This project has the potential to determine which support structures are most effective in retaining and graduating STEM majors. The project will be evaluated using formative and summative mixed methods that will be aligned to project activities and objectives. Quantitative and qualitative data sources will include extant data, document review, online surveys, and interviews. To assess progress towards project goals (formative purposes), the evaluation will monitor implementation fidelity, success in meeting objectives, scholar progress, and student and faculty satisfaction with activities. The summative evaluation will include an assessment of overall attainment of project goals and the impacts of the project activities. 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.

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需要，通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在詹姆斯麦迪逊大学，一个主要的本科院校证明经济需要的保留和毕业。该项目将资助奖学金或$10，000每年长达四年的22名学生谁正在攻读学士学位的生物学，生物技术，化学，生物物理化学，地质学，数学，物理学，和/或统计学。该项目将利用一个全面的支助结构来提高学生的保留率和毕业率。该结构将包括几对相互联系的辅助课程。首先是为即将入学的一年级学生提供的夏季过渡计划，该计划将通过强调队列建设的综合学期研讨会加以利用。第二是教师和学生导师的网络，这将与教师导师的早期和持续的研究机会联系起来。最后，STEM职业探索和准备将与增强的学术和非学术支持服务配对。此外，该项目将开展与支持计划相关的外联活动，并探索其对公众科学素养的影响。 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。 该项目的目标是分两批招收22名学者，每批11名学生;保留85%的学者到第二年;四年内至少70%的学者毕业;并安排90%的毕业生从事STEM相关职业或研究生院。该项目将包括围绕支持结构建立的四年综合学生体验，包括夏桥计划;教师指导;研究经验;学术和职业咨询;同侪辅导;以及专注于精炼学术成功所需技能的研讨会。该项目将确定这些结构是否以及如何提高学生的归属感，自我效能感，参与度，并最终保留，毕业和就业。该项目有可能确定哪些支持结构在保留和毕业STEM专业方面最有效。将使用形成性和总结性混合方法对项目进行评价，这些方法将与项目活动和目标保持一致。定量和定性数据来源将包括现有数据、文件审查、在线调查和访谈。为了评估项目目标（形成目的）的进展情况，评估将监测实施的保真度，在满足目标，学者的进步，学生和教师对活动的满意度的成功。总结性评价将包括评估项目目标的总体实现情况和项目活动的影响。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。