HSI Pilot Project:Diversificadas y Valientes (DIVAS) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Environments

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个轨道1项目旨在提高拉丁裔STEM学生的自我效能。 尽管拉丁裔占美国人口的9%，并对该国的劳动力做出了巨大贡献，但探索其在STEM相关领域潜力的研究仍然有限。更重要的是，解决拉丁美洲人在从事STEM职业时遇到的性别社会规范的干预措施，重点是测量他们在数学方面的自我效能，基本上是不存在的。为了填补这一空白，该项目建议扩大先前的干预研究，重点是女性STEM本科拉丁裔，表明在线辅导和社交网络增加了他们的自我效能，动机和坚持的意图。为了解决STEM中拉丁裔人数少的问题，该项目旨在（1）深入研究STEM女本科生的自我效能水平，重点放在他们的数学自我效能在整个课程;（2）创建一个混合社区，包括辅导会议和导师-学员小组，通过高等教育机构网络连接专业人士和本科生在STEM领域;（3）创建一个在线工具箱/网站，以增强拉丁美洲人的能力。本项目设计的框架是班杜拉（1986年）的社会认知理论（SCT），该理论证明了人类认知、行为和环境的相互联系，决定了在执行任务和活动时自我信念的能力。 该项目将确定积极影响女性在STEM学术和专业途径中的角色，知识和经验的看法的关键原则，重点是什么能提高我们学生的数学能力。这将是一个活生生的实验，DIVAS社区将相互支持，加强拉丁美洲人对HSI的参与。该项目将直接培训90名DIVAS，并通过利用网站/工具箱影响1，000多名拉丁裔。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。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NSF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 1 project aims to increase the self-efficacy of Latina STEM Students. Even though Latinas account for 9% of the United States population and have enormous contributions to the country's labor force, studies exploring their potential in STEM-related fields are limited. More importantly, interventions to tackle the gendered social norms that Latinas encounter to follow STEM careers with a focus on measuring their self-efficacy in mathematics, are basically non-existent. To fill this gap, the project proposes to scale up a prior intervention study focused on female STEM undergraduate Latinas that demonstrated that online mentoring and social networking increased their self-efficacy, motivation, and intentions to persist.To tackle the low numbers of Latinas in STEM the project aims to (1) study in-depth the STEM female undergraduate students’ self-efficacy levels, focusing on their math self-efficacy across the curriculum; (2) create a hybrid community including mentoring sessions and mentor-mentee groups to connect professionals and undergraduate students across STEM fields through a network of higher education institutions; and (3) create an online toolbox/website for empowering Latinas. The framework for this project design is Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory (SCT) which demonstrates the reciprocal connection of human cognition, behavior, and environment to determine the ability to self-beliefs when performing tasks and activities. The project will determine key principles that positively impact the perception of females' role, knowledge, and experience in STEM academic and professional pathways with a strong emphasis on what works to increase the mathematics competencies of our students. This will be a living experiment where the DIVAS community will support each other and strengthen the Latinas' participation in HSIs. The project will directly train 90 DIVAS and impact more than 1,000 Latinas via the utilization of the website/ toolbox. 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.