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.

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这个Track 1项目旨在提高拉美裔STEM学生的自我效能。尽管拉丁裔占美国人口的9%，对美国的劳动力做出了巨大贡献，但探索他们在STEM相关领域的潜力的研究有限。更重要的是，拉丁裔在追随STEM职业生涯时遇到的性别社会规范的干预基本上是不存在的，这些社会规范的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，该项目建议扩大先前针对STEM女性本科生的干预研究，该研究表明在线辅导和社交网络提高了她们的自我效能、动机和坚持的意图。为了解决STEM中拉丁裔人数较少的问题，该项目旨在(1)深入研究STEM女性本科生的自我效能感水平，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，包括辅导会议和辅导对象小组，通过高等教育机构网络将STEM领域的专业人员和本科生联系起来；以及(3)创建一个在线工具箱/网站，以增强拉丁裔的能力。本项目设计的框架是班杜拉(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，以确定在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、知识和经验的认知产生积极影响的关键原则，并大力强调什么能有效地提高我们学生的数学能力。这将是一个活生生的实验，在那里，天后社区将相互支持，并加强拉丁裔在HSI中的参与。该项目将直接培训90名女演员，并通过利用网站/工具箱影响1 000多名拉丁裔。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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。