Broadening Participation Research: Understanding faculty attitudes, competency, and perceptions of providing career advising to African American STEM students at HBCUs

扩大参与研究：了解教师对 HBCU 的非裔美国 STEM 学生提供职业建议的态度、能力和看法

• 批准号: 2306671
• 负责人: Marie Hammond
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Understanding; faculty

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides awards to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. HBCU-UP broadening participation research projects create and study new theory-driven models and innovations related to the participation and success of underrepresented groups in STEM undergraduate education. This award studies STEM faculty career management skills, knowledge, abilities, and attitudes and their ability to support underrepresented students’ persistence in STEM. Faculty members provide advising, guidance, and mentoring for students and are an essential component in students’ progress toward STEM careers. If faculty members do not possess strong career development skills and recognize the value of career advising to their success in working with students, then their ability to help students is hindered. This study is contributing to knowledge on how and to what degree STEM faculty members are prepared to manage their own career and contribute to students’ career development. Study findings are expected to be foundational to preparing professional development experiences that improve career advising in STEM faculty and informing policy and practice to enhance African American STEM student’s persistence, retention, and career readiness.This foundational education research project uses a psychometric validation and quantitative, descriptive design to study HBCU STEM faculty and develop a validated measure of faculty attitudes toward career advising. The study uses structural equation modeling and general linear modeling to validate the Faculty Career Advising Attitudes Scale and clarify the construct of STEM faculty members’ ability to manage their own career and provide basic career mentoring and advising to their students. Findings will enhance understanding of the relationship between faculty members’ own career development attitudes, abilities, and skills and their attitudes toward guiding African American STEM students’ career 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.

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科课程（HBCU-UP）提供奖励，以加强HBCUs的STEM本科教育和研究。HBCU-UP扩大参与研究项目创建和研究与STEM本科教育中代表性不足的群体的参与和成功相关的新理论驱动的模型和创新。该奖项研究STEM教师职业管理技能，知识，能力和态度，以及他们支持代表性不足的学生坚持STEM的能力。教师为学生提供咨询，指导和指导，是学生走向STEM职业生涯的重要组成部分。如果教师不具备较强的职业发展技能，认识到职业咨询的价值，他们成功地与学生合作，那么他们帮助学生的能力受到阻碍。这项研究有助于了解STEM教师如何以及在多大程度上准备管理自己的职业生涯，并为学生的职业发展做出贡献。研究结果预计将是基础准备专业发展的经验，提高职业咨询在干教师和通知政策和实践，以提高非裔美国人干学生的持久性，保留和职业准备。这个基础教育研究项目使用心理测量验证和定量，描述性设计研究HBCU干教师和发展教师对职业咨询的态度验证措施。本研究使用结构方程模型和一般线性模型来验证教师职业建议态度量表，并阐明STEM教师管理自己的职业生涯和为学生提供基本职业指导和建议的能力的结构。 调查结果将提高教师自己的职业发展态度，能力和技能之间的关系，他们对指导非洲裔美国STEM学生的职业发展的态度的理解。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。