Student Advancement and Internships in the Middle of a Computer Science Major

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，该项目旨在为计算机科学(CS)专业的二年级学生试行一项计划，以解决拉美裔和黑人学生以及所有种族的女性学生的坚持问题。少数族裔学生在STEM职业生涯中的参与率较低，他们进入STEM专业的比例与其他人口相似，但完成学位的坚持性要低得多。增加这些学生的留校率，对于使技术劳动力多样化至关重要。这个项目将使用辅助教学工作坊来帮助学生整合他们的学术知识和技术面试技能。技术面试是获得实习机会的筛选过程中的关键部分。该项目的研究人员将建立支持转学成功的沟通渠道，并发展机构基础设施以建立可持续性。该项目将提高少数族裔学生的课程保留率、成绩和实习成绩。这一项目的成功结果应该为扩大该计划提供理由，并更严格地研究其影响。该项目的具体目标将是提高二年级计算机科学课程的留存率，提高编程和分析推理的流利性，并提高学生的技术面试技能。项目小组将提供两个系列讲习班，每个讲习班都与课程内容和实习技术筛选过程的不同阶段相一致。这两个系列工作坊都将在非评价性和支持性的环境中进行积极学习和定期的同行和自我评估，以帮助学生提高对个人学习需求和自我调节学习的认识。评估计划将使用准实验方法来生成高质量的信息，以对项目结果进行推断。关于自我评估、自我调节和成就之间关系的研究将增加STEM领域内外越来越多的文献。该项目的活动和发现计划将包括与许多受众进行接触，包括纽约城市大学(CUNY)系统内计算机科学和邻近系的教职员工、STEM教育研究人员、科技行业招聘人员和学生。传播计划将利用区域研讨会、会议报告、同行评议出版物和一个计划网站。该项目由HSI计划资助，该计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大对STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的制度转型能力。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this project aims to pilot a program for second-year students in the computer science (CS) major to address the problem of persistence among Hispanic and Black students, and female students of all ethnicities. Minority students who are underrepresented in their participation in STEM careers enter STEM majors at similar rates to the rest of the population but have much lower persistence to completing a degree. Increasing retention among these students is crucial to diversifying the technical workforce. This project will use supplementary instructional workshops to help students integrate their academic knowledge and technical interviewing skills. Technical interviewing is a key part of the screening process for achieving internships. The project's investigators will create communication pipelines that support the success of transfer students and develop institutional infrastructure to build sustainability. The project will improve course retention, grades, and internship achievement among underrepresented minority students. Successful outcomes of this project should provide the rationale for expansion of the program and more rigorous study of its impact. This project's specific objectives will be to increase retention in second-year computer science courses, increase fluency in programming and analytic reasoning, and improve students’ skills for technical interviewing. The project team will offer two series of workshops, each aligned to course content and different stages of the technical screening process for internships. Both workshop series will feature active learning and regular peer- and self-assessment in a non-evaluative and supportive environment to help students develop awareness of their personal learning needs and self-regulated learning. The evaluation plan will use quasi-experimental methods to generate high-quality information for making inferences about program outcomes. Research on the relationships between self-assessment, self-regulation, and achievement will add to a growing body of literature within and beyond STEM fields. The project's plan for communicating its activities and findings will include outreach to many audiences including faculty in computer science and adjacent departments throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system, STEM-educational researchers, tech industry recruiters, and students. The dissemination plan will make use of regional seminars, conference presentations, peer-reviewed publications, and a program website. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity for institutional transformation at HSIs.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.