Collaborative Research: HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Studying Equitable and Inclusive Strategies for Mentoring in CUREs

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严格检查指导关系和结构，因为它们是在生物科学的基于课程的本科研究经验（CUREs）的背景下制定的。此外，该项目试图确定CURE学习环境的上述方面，CURE学生的态度和专业倾向（例如，他们作为科学家的发展）以及他们对研究的坚持之间存在的联系。这些分析将用于建立工作组，负责制定和评估教学材料和专业发展机会，促进公平和包容的指导战略。总的来说，从这项工作中产生的发现和产品将通过揭示关键的指导行为、机构/课程级别的政策，以及在CUREs领域中推动成功的学习支持，为该领域和教育实践做出实质性的贡献。具体而言，本项目将：(1)使用定量方法表征教师/学生人口统计学属性与学生对辅导的感知之间的关系，以及学生对辅导的感知与他们的情感/心理社会发展之间的关系；(2)采用定性方法（主要是人种学案例研究）研究社会结构和权力动态对“治愈”情境下师徒关系的影响；(3)利用研究成果组织和召集工作组，重点分享必要的思想和资源，以建立有效、公平和包容的治愈指导文化。因此，拟议的项目不仅将为该领域贡献新的理论和实践知识，而且还将培养所需的人力和社会资本，以确保在CURE中的指导成为CURE教学环境的明确焦点。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。

Collaborative Research: HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Studying Equitable and Inclusive Strategies for Mentoring in CUREsWith support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program, this Track 2 project aims to rigorously examine mentoring relationships and structures as they are enacted in the context of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in the biological sciences. Further, this project seeks to identify the associations that exist between the aforementioned facets of the CURE learning environment, CURE students’ attitudes and professional dispositions (e.g., their development as scientists), and their persistence in research. These analyses will be leveraged to establish working groups tasked with developing and evaluating instructional materials and professional development opportunities that foster equitable and inclusive mentoring strategies in CUREs. Collectively, the findings and products generated from this work are poised to make a substantial contribution to the field and to educational practices by revealing key mentoring behaviors, institutional-/course-level policies, and learning supports that drive success in the CUREs space.Specifically, this project will: (1) use quantitative approaches to characterize the relationship between instructor/student demographic attributes and students’ perceptions of mentoring in CUREs as well as students’ perceptions of mentoring and their affective/psychosocial development; (2) employ qualitative methods (principally ethnographic case studies) to investigate the role of social structure and power dynamics on mentoring in the CUREs context; and (3) leverage research findings to organize and convene working groups focused on the sharing of ideas and resources necessary to build a culture of effective, equitable, and inclusive mentorship in CUREs. Thus, the proposed project will not only contribute new theoretical and practical knowledge to the field, but also cultivate the human and social capital needed to ensure that mentoring in CUREs becomes an explicit focus of the CURE teaching and learning environment. 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.