HSI Planning Project: Shifting perspectives about why women of color are underrepresented in biology: the role of intersectional identities

HSI 规划项目：转变关于为什么有色人种女性在生物学中代表性不足的观点：交叉身份的作用

• 批准号: 2225241
• 负责人: Leticia Marquez-Magana
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: San Francisco 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: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Planning; Project; Shifting; perspectives

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 Planning Project aims to better understand the reasons women of color majoring in biology at San Francisco State University (SF State) leave their major. While women are well represented in the field of biology, women of color remain underrepresented. This underrepresentation both limits the career advancement of women of color in the life sciences, and the unrealized benefit to science by inclusion of their unique perspectives and skills in the biological sciences workforce. This planning project seeks to identify the barriers and facilitators for women of color in biology, using critical information gathered in this project. A smartphone application will be used to capture information about the day-to-day experiences of women in the biology department at SF State, who are highly diverse. Detailed information about these experiences will be gained by conducting informational interviews with a subset of the women of color who contributed information about their day-to-day experiences via the smartphone app. This planning project will help to elucidate the complexities encountered by women of color who hold intersectional identities in biology to develop an evidence-based interventions to further supports their valuable advancement in the life sciences.The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project achieves these overarching goals by generating new knowledge about the complexities experienced by undergraduate women of color in biology at SF State, an HSI. These experiences remain largely unidentified and have not been investigated using asset-based or intersectional lenses. These lenses will be used to analyze data about the microaffirmations and microaggressions experienced by undergraduate women of color in biology at SF State collected through use of the MA2 smartphone application. Responses from 600 participants will be collected to document quantitative and qualitative results. To validate the qualitative results, 20 informational interviews will be conducted (i.e., respondent validation) to better understand the factors (behaviors, norms, values, social environment) that facilitate persistence in biology for women of color. This new knowledge will be used to design an asset-based intervention that improves persistence of women of color having intersectional identities in the life sciences. Overall, the funded planning project will provide women of color with the opportunity to share their experiences in biology from their own perspective to authentically inform an intervention focused on faculty development and improved pedagogical practice that is culturally-responsive. Dissemination of the findings will contribute to efforts at institutions across the country to enable the persistence women.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.

在不断改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1计划项目旨在更好地了解旧金山州立大学（SF州）生物学专业妇女的原因。尽管妇女在生物学领域有很好的代表，但有色妇女的人数仍然不足。这种代表性不足既限制了生命科学妇女的职业发展，又限制了通过在生物科学劳动力中纳入其独特的观点和技能，对科学的未实现的好处。该计划项目旨在使用该项目收集的关键信息来确定生物学女性的障碍和促进者。智能手机的应用程序将用于捕获有关SF州生物学部门女性日常经历的信息，这些智能手机的经历高度多样化。有关这些经验的详细信息将通过与有色女性的一部分进行信息访谈来获得，她们通过智能手机应用程序贡献了有关其日常体验的信息。 该计划项目将有助于阐明有色女性遇到的复杂性，这些女性拥有生物学中的交叉认同，以开发基于证据的干预措施，以进一步支持其在生命科学方面的宝贵进步。HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。该项目通过产生有关SF State（HSI）生物学上有色女性所经历的复杂性的新知识来实现​​这些总体目标。这些经验在很大程度上是不明的，并且尚未使用基于资产的或相互镜头进行调查。这些镜头将用于分析有关通过使用MA2智能手机应用程序收集的SF状态的有色妇女在生物学中所经历的微肯定和微侵略的数据。将收集来自600名参与者的反应，以记录定量和定性结果。为了验证定性结果，将进行20次信息访谈（即受访者验证），以更好地了解促进有色女性生物学持久性的因素（行为，规范，价值观，社会环境）。这些新知识将用于设计基于资产的干预措施，该干预措施改善了生活科学中具有相互作用身份的有色女性的持久性。总体而言，资助的计划项目将为有色妇女提供机会，从自己的角度分享其生物学经验，以真实地为专注于教师发展的干预措施，并改善了具有文化反应的教学实践。调查结果的传播将有助于全国各地的机构努力，以实现持久性妇女。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。