Impacts of Undergraduate Research for Fully Online STEM Students

本科生研究对完全在线 STEM 学生的影响

• 批准号: 2315560
• 负责人: Robert Deters
• 金额: $ 39.92万
• 依托单位: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical 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: 2023-10-15 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impacts; Undergraduate; Research; Fully; Online

This project aims to serve the national interest by investigating curricular innovations to engage online STEM students in undergraduate research. While the benefits of traditional undergraduate research are well-studied, little work has been done in providing a framework for supporting undergraduate research in a globally distributed wholly online learning environment. This project will create an undergraduate STEM research minor to address some of the administrative and student barriers to engaging in a course-based undergraduate research experience, and support the minor with workshops available to all students, mentor training, and a diffuse group of faculty to support students. The project’s goals are to broaden the implementation of undergraduate research, improve student perspectives, and promote STEM career pathways. The discrete objectives of this 3-year project are to develop and administer a Research Scholars Program in a wholly online learning environment. The program is anticipated to increase undergraduate research participation for students completing STEM degrees exclusively online at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and lead to impactful student research outputs, including student authorship of papers and conference presentations. Engaging in the research minor and the research experiences is expected to positively influence students' STEM attitudes and support them in choosing and pursuing STEM career pathways. Research data include institutional data and qualitative interviews with students and other stakeholders to best determine the efficacy of the developed courses and workshops as well as their impact on students and the institution. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

这个项目旨在通过调查课程创新来服务于国家利益，让在线STEM学生参与本科生的研究。虽然传统本科生研究的好处得到了很好的研究，但在提供一个框架来支持全球分布的完全在线学习环境中的本科生研究方面做的工作很少。这个项目将创建一个本科生STEM研究辅修课程，以解决参与基于课程的本科研究体验的一些行政和学生障碍，并通过向所有学生提供研讨会、导师培训和分散的教员小组来支持学生来支持辅修课程。该项目的目标是扩大本科生研究的实施范围，改善学生的视角，并促进STEM职业道路。这个为期3年的项目的不同目标是在一个完全在线的学习环境中开发和管理一个研究学者计划。该计划预计将增加在恩布里-里德尔航空大学在线完成STEM学位的学生的本科生研究参与，并带来有影响力的学生研究成果，包括学生论文和会议演示文稿的作者。从事辅修研究和研究经历将对学生的STEM态度产生积极影响，并支持他们选择和追求STEM职业道路。研究数据包括机构数据和对学生和其他利益攸关方的定性访谈，以最好地确定所开发的课程和讲习班的效力及其对学生和机构的影响。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。