HSI Pilot Project: Investigating Impact of an Active Learning-informed and Creative-Video-based Psychosocial Enrichment Intervention on Retention of Hispanic Engineering Students

HSI 试点项目：调查基于主动学习和创意视频的社会心理丰富干预对西班牙裔工程学生保留的影响

• 批准号: 2247530
• 负责人: Deepak Ganta
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247530&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Investigating; Impact

With support from the National Science Foundation's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 1 project aims to research active learning techniques to improve the engineering retention rate of Hispanic students at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted classrooms to virtual learning modes, which negatively impacted the retention of many of our undergraduate students. Student success has always been a challenge for minority students in STEM fields and is even more so for TAMIU's at-risk student population. With these challenges, the project will provide engineering students with meaningful video-based learning and group-based activities to facilitate learning. Social and video interactions will be designed to benefit women and minorities, as almost 90% of TAMIU students are Hispanic, and more than half are female. Simultaneously, the project will study the effect and success of an evidence-based STEM enrichment program that can be implemented at other minority-serving institutions. The Project's specific aim is to improve the persistence, completion, and graduation of Hispanic, under-represented, and low-income students pursuing undergraduate engineering degrees. The Project's research strategy will combine a randomized controlled trial design, a path-analytic approach, and a longitudinal approach, and will engage two cohorts of freshman engineering students. Each cohort will be equally divided into two groups, one with creative video projects and the other without creative video projects, in a 2-semester enrichment program. This intervention will be applied to two existing gateway engineering courses with low retention rates. The Project team includes experts from engineering, psychology, and sociology. The success of this project will generate insights into how psychosocial outcomes facilitate the impact of our intervention on engineering student retention and timely graduation. Findings will be disseminated through local, state, national, and international conferences and forums; manuscripts will be submitted for publication in engineering education, cognitive psychology, and sociology of science journals. This project will advance understanding and generate insights on how active learning strategies can further enhance learning and improve engagement, retention, completion, and persistence in undergraduate engineering education. 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 strategic aims. 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.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，提高本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）计划，这个轨道1项目旨在研究主动学习技术，以提高工程学留存率西班牙裔学生在得克萨斯州A M国际大学（TAMIU）。COVID-19疫情令课堂转向虚拟学习模式，对我们许多本科生的留堂率造成负面影响。学生的成功一直是STEM领域少数民族学生的挑战，对于TAMIU的高危学生群体来说更是如此。面对这些挑战，该项目将为工程专业的学生提供有意义的视频学习和小组活动，以促进学习。社交和视频互动将被设计为有利于妇女和少数民族，因为近90%的TAMIU学生是西班牙裔，超过一半是女性。同时，该项目将研究以证据为基础的STEM富集计划的效果和成功，该计划可以在其他少数民族服务机构实施。 该项目的具体目标是提高西班牙裔，代表性不足和低收入学生攻读本科工程学位的持久性，完成和毕业。该项目的研究策略将结合联合收割机随机对照试验设计，路径分析方法和纵向方法，并将从事两个队列的新生工程专业的学生。每个队列将被平均分为两组，一组有创意视频项目，另一组没有创意视频项目，在一个2学期的充实计划。这一干预措施将适用于两个现有的网关工程课程，保留率低。项目团队包括工程学、心理学和社会学专家。这个项目的成功将产生深入了解如何心理社会的结果促进我们的干预工程学生保留和及时毕业的影响。研究结果将通过地方，州，国家和国际会议和论坛传播;手稿将提交在工程教育，认知心理学和科学期刊社会学上发表。该项目将促进理解，并产生关于积极学习策略如何进一步加强学习和提高参与度，保留，完成和坚持本科工程教育的见解。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些战略目标的新知识。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。