Effective Strategies to Recruit Underserved Students to Baccalaureate Engineering Success and Transition Programs (Recruit-BEST)

招募服务不足的学生参加学士学位工程成功和过渡计划的有效策略（Recruit-BEST）

• 批准号: 2320120
• 负责人: Xinyu Zhang
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2320120&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Effective; Strategies; Recruit; Underserved; Students

Baccalaureate Engineering student Success and Transition (BEST) programs are holistic student success programs at four-year undergraduate universities that provide evidence-based, well-structured activities to enhance engineering students' academic and professional success in the college transition and to increase their retention in the engineering major. These programs often struggle to attract diverse students, including women, students from underrepresented minority groups, first-generation students, low-income and rural students. This project aims to examine this issue by finding the most effective methods for reaching underserved students and recruiting them to BEST programs. The project seeks to identify strategies that are successful, impactful, and sustainable. This will strengthen BEST programs, allowing them to fulfill their goals and expand further. The project will contribute to our national understanding of efficient recruitment methods and effective communication channels. Additionally, it will promote diversity in engineering education and the workforce. By recruiting more engineering students from diverse backgrounds, we can address the nation's need for a diverse engineering workforce, which is critical for the advancement of society. By implementing strategic recruitment efforts, we can uplift underserved students, their families, and their communities, and these efforts have the potential to enhance the economic growth of rural areas. The goal of this project is to build STEM education research skills in the PI through a project that broadens participation in engineering in the U.S. via assessing different strategies to recruit underserved students (women, minorities, first-generation, low-income, and rural students) into BEST programs at 4-year universities. The study is based on the Diffusion of Innovations framework and will examine students’ awareness of BEST programs and decision-making processes about whether or not to apply to these programs through surveys and interviews. Responses will be analyzed to study the effectiveness and alignment of different recruitment methods in use by BEST programs from the perspectives of both program organizers and students. The project is national in scope and aims to include 100 BEST programs across the U.S. and more than 2000 students via surveys and interviews with program leaders, and BEST program participants and prospective participants. Knowledge generated on effective recruitment strategies from this project will contribute to the literature base, broadening its impact and helping to tackle the challenges of low enrollment of underserved students in BEST programs, while supporting the creation and continuation of student success programs. This project also trains new STEM education researchers (PI and supported students) to enhance their capacity to conduct rigorous research in STEM education. The project is supported by NSF's EDU Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) program, which is designed to build investigators' capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education research.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.

学士学位的工程学生的成功与过渡（最佳）课程是四年制本科大学的整体学生成功计划，这些课程提供了基于证据的，结构良好的活动，以增强工程学生在大学过渡方面的学术和职业成功，并提高他们在工程专业的保留。这些计划通常很难吸引包括女性，来自代表性不足的少数群体，第一代学生，低收入和粗糙的学生的学生。该项目旨在通过找到吸引服务不足的学生并招募最佳计划的最有效方法来检查这个问题。该项目旨在确定成功，有影响力和可持续性的策略。这将加强最佳计划，使他们能够实现自己的目标并进一步扩展。该项目将有助于我们对有效招募方法和有效的国家理解。沟通渠道。此外，它将促进工程教育和劳动力的多样性。通过招募更多来自潜水员背景的工程专业学生，我们可以满足国家对潜水员工程劳动力的需求，这对于社会发展至关重要。通过实施战略招聘工作，我们可以提升服务不足的学生，他们的家庭和社区，这些努力有可能增强农村地区的经济增长。该项目的目的是通过一个通过一个通过评估来扩大参与美国工程学的项目，以招募服务不足的学生（妇女，少数民族，第一代，低收入学生和粗糙的学生）进入4年大学的最佳计划。该研究基于创新框架的扩散，将研究学生对是否通过调查和访谈申请这些计划的最佳计划和决策过程的认识。将分析响应，以研究最佳计划从计划组织者和学生的角度使用最佳计划使用的不同招聘方法的有效性和一致性。该项目的范围是全国性的，旨在通过调查和对计划负责人的调查以及最佳计划参与者和准参与者的调查和访谈来包括100个最佳计划和2000多名学生。该项目的有效招聘策略产生的知识将有助于文献基础，扩大其影响力，并有助于应对最佳计划中服务不足的学生的挑战，同时支持学生成功计划的创建和延续。该项目还培训了新的STEM教育研究人员（PI和支持学生），以增强其在STEM教育方面进行严格研究的能力。该项目得到了NSF的STEM教育研究（ECR：BCSER）计划的NSF核心研究建设能力的支持，该计划旨在建立研究人员进行高质量的STEM教育研究的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。