Families for STEM success

STEM 成功的家庭

• 批准号: 10475685
• 负责人: Anna Woodcock
• 金额: $ 23.51万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475685
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; African American; Attitude; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical Research; Buffers; Career Choice; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Drops; Early Intervention; Education; Educational workshop; Equilibrium; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic group; Expectancy; Family; Feeling; Fostering; Geography; Goals; Hispanic Populations; Home; Identity Crisis; Institutes; Intention; Intervention; Knowledge; Latinx; Measures; Mediating; Outcome; Parents; Performance; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Schools; Science; Scientist; Series; Signal Transduction; Social Environment; Student Persistence; Students; Testing; Time; Work; academic preparation; career; cohort; college; design; doctoral student; ethnic identity; experience; health disparity; innovation; interest; intervention program; longitudinal design; programs; psychosocial; racial and ethnic; recruit; retention rate; success; theories; therapy design; undergraduate student; university student

Behavioral science research has firmly established that developing an identity as a scientist is a strong predictor of persistence on the scientific research career path, yet little is known about how LatinX science majors balance their scientific and ethnic identities and how parental support could foster identity balance. The long-term goal is to understand the impact of balancing science and ethnic identities on attrition from the biomedical science career pipeline, and to test the utility of an intervention designed to foster identity balance. The proposed research employs a quasi-experimental, matched control, longitudinal design, to measure the impact of an intervention program with parents of incoming LatinX biomedical science majors. The specific aims are: 1) to measure the immediate impact of the workshop on LatinX parents’ knowledge of and attitudes about science, the value of a science degree, and the compatibility between scientific research and LatinX heritage. 2) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on the short and long- term academic persistence and success of LatinX biomedical science students. 3) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on students’ science identity across time, and the balance between their science and LatinX identities, and 4) to assess the degree to which the effects of the parental intervention on short and longer-term academic outcomes are mediated through scientific-LatinX identity balance. Biomedical discoveries and public health clearly benefit from a diverse biomedical workforce. LatinX parents are a largely untapped, and potentially powerful, resource for decreasing LatinX student flight from the biomedical science career path. The research proposed in this application is innovative because balanced identity design offers a new theoretical approach to understanding how students navigate and balance multiple identities to maintain a strong identity as a scientific researcher. An early intervention with parents has the potential to alter students’ social context to support identity balance. This project is significant because it will provide a theory-driven rigorous empirical understanding how parental education and support can help LatinX biomedical science students achieve academically and balance a strong LatinX identity with an emerging science identity. This parent intervention programs could significantly increase the pool of qualified LatinX doctoral program applicants in less than a decade. A larger pool of diverse and qualified doctoral students has the potential to increase the diversity of the biomedical science workforce by 2040.

行为科学研究已经牢固地确立了发展科学家的身份是一个强大的 科学研究职业道路上的持久性的预测，但很少有人知道如何拉丁X 科学专业的学生平衡他们的科学和种族身份，以及父母的支持如何培养身份 平衡长期目标是了解平衡科学和种族身份对 从生物医学科学职业管道的磨损，并测试干预的效用，旨在 培养身份平衡。 本研究采用准实验、匹配对照、纵向设计， 对即将入学的拉丁裔生物医学科学专业学生的父母进行干预计划的影响。的 具体目标是：1）衡量讲习班对拉丁裔父母的知识的直接影响， 和对科学的态度，科学学位的价值，以及科学之间的兼容性， 研究和拉丁裔遗产。2)为了衡量父母干预对短期和长期的影响， 长期的学术坚持和LatinX生物医学科学学生的成功。3)来衡量 家长干预对学生科学认同的影响， 和LatinX身份，以及4）评估父母干预对短期影响的程度 而长期的学术成果是通过科学-拉丁X身份平衡来介导的。 生物医学发现和公共卫生显然受益于多样化的生物医学劳动力。Latinx 父母是一个基本上未开发的，潜在的强大的资源，减少拉丁裔学生飞行 从生物医学科学的职业道路。这项申请中提出的研究是创新的，因为 平衡的身份设计提供了一种新的理论方法来理解学生如何导航， 平衡多重身份，以保持作为科学研究者的强烈身份。早期干预 与父母的关系有可能改变学生的社会背景，以支持身份平衡。这个项目是 重要的是，它将提供一个理论驱动的严格的经验理解，父母如何 教育和支持可以帮助LatinX生物医学科学的学生实现学业和平衡， 强烈的拉丁裔身份与新兴的科学身份。这种家长干预计划可以 在不到十年的时间里显著增加合格的LatinX博士课程申请人的数量。一 更大的多元化和合格的博士生库有可能增加的多样性， 到2040年生物医学科学的劳动力。