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

HSI 试点项目：科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 环境中的多元化 (DIVAS)

• 批准号: 2318308
• 负责人: Josee Vedrine-Pauleus
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico at Humacao
• 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: 2023-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Diversificadas; Valientes

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.

在改善本科 STEM 教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI 计划）的支持下，该轨道 1 项目旨在提高拉丁裔 STEM 学生的自我效能。 尽管拉丁裔人口占美国人口的 9%，并对国家劳动力做出了巨大贡献，但探索他们在 STEM 相关领域潜力的研究仍然有限。更重要的是，解决拉丁裔在 STEM 职业生涯中遇到的性别社会规范的干预措施基本上不存在，重点是衡量他们在数学方面的自我效能。为了填补这一空白，该项目建议扩大之前针对拉丁裔 STEM 女本科生的干预研究，该研究表明，在线辅导和社交网络提高了她们的自我效能、动力和坚持的意愿。为了解决 STEM 中拉丁裔人数较少的问题，该项目的目标是 (1) 深入研究 STEM 女本科生的自我效能水平，重点关注她们在整个课程中的数学自我效能； (2) 创建一个混合社区，包括辅导课程和辅导者小组，通过高等教育机构网络将 STEM 领域的专业人士和本科生联系起来； (3) 创建一个在线工具箱/网站来增强拉丁裔的能力。该项目设计的框架是班杜拉（Bandura）（1986）的社会认知理论（SCT），该理论证明了人类认知、行为和环境之间的相互联系，以确定执行任务和活动时的自我信念能力。 该项目将确定对女性在 STEM 学术和职业道路上的角色、知识和经验产生积极影响的关键原则，并重点关注如何提高学生的数学能力。这将是一个活生生的实验，DIVAS 社区将互相支持并加强拉丁美洲人对 HSI 的参与。该项目将通过网站/工具箱直接培训 90 名 DIVAS，并影响 1,000 多名拉丁裔人士。 HSI 计划旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育并建设 HSI 的能力。 HSI 计划支持的项目还将产生有关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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。