UC Merced STEM Summer Start

在“改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）”的支持下，这个第二轨道项目旨在通过提供一套高质量的暑期预科教育体验，提高STEM本科一年级学生的成功率和保留率，这些体验面向所有学生，满足所有新生的学术准备需求。许多大学都有完善的暑期桥梁课程。然而，这些项目的运行成本通常很高，而且覆盖的学生范围有限。该项目将探索广泛的课程形式，包括面对面和在线；短期和长期；以社区为基础和独立；以回顾为导向，以加速为导向。对于所有这些项目，我们将特别注重将夏季与大学第一学期的经历联系起来。我们预计，我们的研究结果将为其他机构提供信息，这些机构正在寻找成功的、可扩展的预科暑期课程模式，并加强暑期和第一年学术经历之间的联系。加州大学默塞德分校（University of California, Merced）提议为预录取的新生实施一个全面的STEM早期暑期项目。该项目旨在帮助历史上代表性不足的学生成功地在学术和社会上过渡到STEM专业，并提高代表性不足的少数民族学生、第一代和符合佩尔资格的STEM学生坚持STEM专业的比例。特别是，STEM暑期启动计划将侧重于三个目标：1。为每位学生提供一套高质量的暑期预科教育体验，满足所有新生的学术准备需求；2. 2 .在夏季开始课程和秋季学期入门级STEM课程之间创建一个有凝聚力的连接体验，除了学术内容和学习技能之外，还支持学生的归属感，自我效能感和适应能力的发展；研究各种教学手段和早期开始的计划活动对学生成功的影响，包括入门级STEM课程的学业成功，STEM专业的保留率，获得学位的时间和选定的心理社会指标。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to increase success and retention of first-year undergraduate STEM majors by offering a suite of high-quality, pre-matriculation summer educational experiences that are accessible to every student and meet the full range of incoming student academic preparation needs. Many universities have well-established, intensive Summer Bridge programs. However, these programs are often high cost to run and reach a limited range of students. This project will explore a broad range of program formats, including in-person and online; short-duration and long-duration; community-based and independent; and review-oriented and acceleration-oriented. For all of these programs, we will be particularly focused on connecting the summer with the first semester college experience. We anticipate that the findings from our studies will be informative to other institutions looking to identify successful, scalable models for pre-matriculation summer programming and strengthening connections between summer and first-year academic experiences.University of California, Merced proposes the implementation of a comprehensive STEM early-start summer program for pre-matriculated incoming students. This program is designed to help historically underrepresented students make a successful academic and social transition to their STEM major and to improve the shares of students who are underrepresented minorities, first-generation and Pell-eligible STEM students who persist in their STEM major. In particular, the STEM Summer Start Program would be focused on three goals:1. Provide a suite of high-quality pre-matriculation summer educational experiences that are accessible to every student and meet the full range of incoming student academic preparation needs; 2. Create a cohesive, connected experience between the Summer Start programs and the Fall semester entry-level STEM courses that supports student development of sense of belonging, self-efficacy and resilience, in addition to academic content and study skills and;3. Study the impacts of various pedagogical devices and early-start programmatic activities on student success, including academic success in entry-level STEM courses, retention in STEM majors, time-to-degree and selected psycho-social metrics. 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 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.