Collaborative Research: Effects of Mentoring Relationship Heterogeneity on Student Outcomes among NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Participants

合作研究： NSF 本科生研究经历 (REU) 项目参与者的指导关系异质性对学生成绩的影响

• 批准号: 2234348
• 负责人: Danielle Morales
• 金额: $ 24.79万
• 依托单位: Worcester 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 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234348&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Effects; Mentoring; Relationship

Understanding mentoring relationships is critical to increasing diversity in STEM fields. Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Utah propose to study the effects of mentor relationship mismatch on student outcomes during NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs. This project aims to employ a novel approach to studying mentoring by examining multilevel mentoring and demographics of students and the mentor team. The project aims to collect data from participating students and mentors from across the country at the end of the summer research program and during the next year to gauge outcomes related to STEM interest and persistence and intent to follow a STEM career pathway. This project aligns with the EHR Core Research program’s goal of addressing challenges in STEM interest, learning, and participation. The project aims to address three interrelated research questions, including how mentoring relationship heterogeneity impacts short-term and mid-term student outcomes, if these effects can be moderated by interactional dynamics between mentors and mentees, and how mentoring relationship heterogeneity impacts educational, research, and career goals immediately after the REU experience and after one year. Mentoring Relationship Heterogeneity in Context provides a conceptual framework focusing on how student mentees match with multiple mentors, including graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The concept of programmatic heterogeneity will be used to measure the dissimilarity between students’ demographic background and the demographic composition of their REU program. Post-REU surveys collected from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) data will be used along with a matrix analysis of semi-structure individual interview responses. Short-and mid-term student outcomes consist of immediate gains in working like a scientist, comfort with science skills, science identity, sense of clarity about career path, research productivity, persistence in STEM major, and intent to pursue graduate school. The project seeks to advance knowledge about mentoring relationships and aims to produce mentor and mentee workshops to positively impact undergraduate research students from underrepresented groups. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research program that supports fundamental research focused on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM professional workforce development.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.

了解指导关系对于增加STEM领域的多样性至关重要。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和犹他州大学的研究人员建议在NSF本科生研究经验（REU）项目中研究导师关系不匹配对学生成绩的影响。本项目旨在采用一种新的方法来研究多层次的指导和人口统计学的学生和导师团队的指导。该项目旨在收集来自全国各地的参与学生和导师的数据，在夏季研究计划结束时，并在接下来的一年中，以衡量与STEM兴趣和持久性以及遵循STEM职业途径的意图相关的结果。该项目符合EHR核心研究计划的目标，即解决STEM兴趣，学习和参与方面的挑战。该项目旨在解决三个相互关联的研究问题，包括指导关系异质性如何影响短期和中期的学生成果，如果这些影响可以通过导师和学员之间的互动动态来调节，以及指导关系异质性如何影响教育，研究和职业目标后立即REU的经验和一年后。 环境中的导师关系异质性提供了一个概念框架，重点是学生学员如何与多个导师匹配，包括研究生和博士后研究人员。程序异质性的概念将被用来衡量学生的人口背景和他们的REU程序的人口组成之间的差异。从研究指导经验改进中心（CIMER）收集的REU后调查数据将与半结构化个人访谈回答的矩阵分析一起使用沿着。短期和中期的学生成果包括像科学家一样工作的直接收益，科学技能的舒适度，科学身份，对职业道路的清晰感，研究生产力，STEM专业的坚持，以及攻读研究生院的意图。该项目旨在促进对指导关系的了解，并旨在制作导师和学员研讨会，以积极影响来自代表性不足群体的本科研究生。 该项目由EHR核心研究计划资助，该计划支持以STEM学习和学习环境为重点的基础研究，扩大STEM的参与，以及STEM专业人才队伍的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。