HSI Pilot Project: Enhancing STEM Participation and Attainment at a Rural, Hispanic-Serving Institution

HSI 试点项目：在农村、拉美裔服务机构中提高 STEM 参与度和成就

• 批准号: 2345349
• 负责人: James Hawker
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: South Florida State College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345349&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Pilot; Project; Enhancing; STEM

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to improve STEM participation and baccalaureate transfer for students at a rural HSI community college. Despite a rise in Hispanic student enrollment and graduation rates over the past few decades, Hispanic students remain underrepresented in STEM degrees and the STEM workforce. At rural HSI community colleges, many Hispanic students are unable to access required science lab coursework or engage in highly valuable undergraduate research experiences in STEM disciplines due to location constraints. Online courses in community college settings have the potential to increase access, persistence, and degree completion by removing location constraints and allowing students to continue to make progress toward their degree. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that many under-resourced institutions, such as rural HSI community colleges, faced major challenges when seeking to deliver high-quality online laboratory science courses. Similar capacity constraints limit Hispanic students' undergraduate research opportunity at rural HSI community colleges. This research will contribute to the growing body of literature on the role that online instruction and undergraduate research experiences can play in advancing equity in STEM opportunities and outcomes via evidence-based best practices designed to build stronger STEM pathways and identities among Hispanic students at a rural HSI community college.The aims of this project are to (1) increase access to STEM for rural students at and HSI and (2) improve degree attainment and transfer opportunities for HSI students pursuing STEM education. To address these two areas for improvement, SFSC will partner with the University of Florida Institute of Higher Education (UF IHE) to implement evidence-based best practices that increase access to required science courses and to undergraduate research experiences. These interventions will include high-quality online courses, innovative virtual science labs, and expanded undergraduate research experiences. Expected project outcomes include increased student enrollment in laboratory science courses, increased persistence of students in STEM majors, and increased participation of students in undergraduate research experiences. The collaborative research team from SFSC and UF IHE will explore the project's influence on students' STEM course participation, success, and persistence in their major. The project team will also examine faculty records for participation in undergraduate research experiences and conduct semi-structured interviews to better understand students' engagement and experiences with intervention components. Following an independent external evaluation, results of this work will be broadly disseminated at the state, regional, and national levels, including Florida College System institutions, professional associations, higher education research networks, and peer-reviewed journals focused on higher education and STEM education. To ensure broad dissemination, the project team will also create a dedicated project website and promote deliverables through the UF IHE website. 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.

在不断改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1项目旨在改善乡村HSI社区学院的学生的STEM参与和学士学位转移。尽管过去几十年来西班牙裔学生的入学率和毕业率上升，但西班牙裔学生在STEM学位和STEM劳动力方面的人数仍然不足。在农村HSI社区学院，许多西班牙裔学生无法访问所需的科学实验室课程，或者由于位置限制而从事STEM学科的高度宝贵的本科研究经验。社区大学环境中的在线课程有可能通过删除位置限制并允许学生继续在学位上取得进步，从而增加访问，持久性和学位完成。 COVID-19-Pandemic揭示了许多资源不足的机构，例如农村HSI社区大学，在寻求提供高质量的在线实验室科学课程时，面临着主要的挑战。类似的容量限制限制了西班牙裔学生在农村HSI社区学院的本科研究机会。这项研究将有助于越来越多的文献来促进在线指导和本科研究经验可以通过循证基于证据的最佳实践来提高茎的公平机会和成果，旨在建立旨在建立较强的STEM途径和身份的西班牙裔学生，这是该项目的西班牙裔学生中的西班牙裔学生，该项目的目标是为了（1）提高了sem sem for STEM和HSI的转移和HSI和HSI和HSI和HSI（2））（2））（2）2） 教育。为了解决这两个方面的改进领域，SFSC将与佛罗里达大学高等教育研究所（UF IHE）合作，以实施基于证据的最佳实践，以增加获得必要的科学课程的访问和本科研究经验。这些干预措施将包括高质量的在线课程，创新的虚拟科学实验室以及扩大本科研究经验。预期的项目成果包括增加的学生在实验室科学课程中的入学率增加，学生在STEM专业的持久性增加以及学生参与本科研究经验。来自SFSC和UF IHE的合作研究团队将探讨该项目对学生STEM课程的影响，成功和持久性的影响。项目团队还将研究教师记录，以参与本科研究经验，并进行半结构化访谈，以更好地了解学生的参与和干预组件的经验。经过独立的外部评估，这项工作的结果将在州，地区和国家级别广泛传播，包括佛罗里达大学系统机构，专业协会，高等教育研究网络以及侧重于高等教育和STEM教育的同行评审期刊。为了确保广泛的传播，项目团队还将创建一个专门的项目网站，并通过UF IHE网站促进可交付成果。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被视为值得通过评估来获得支持。