Analyzing the Impact of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

分析迈尔霍夫学者计划的影响

• 批准号: 7474037
• 负责人: KENNETH Ira MATON
• 金额: $ 43.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-10 至 2009-09-10
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7474037
• 关键词: Address; African American; Applied Research; Asian Americans; Baltimore; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Characteristics; County; Data Collection; Depth; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Engineering; Enrollment; GYPA gene; Glycophorin A; Internships; Intervention Studies; Lead; Maryland; Mathematics; Minority; NCI Scholars Program; Numbers; Outcome; Participant; Preparation; Program Effectiveness; Qualitative Methods; Research; Research Personnel; Scholarship; Science; Score; Socioeconomic Status; Students; Technology; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Work; base; career; cohort; design; desire; experience; high school; interdisciplinary approach; programs; success

This proposal is designed to enhance understanding of the pathways to the PhD among Meyerhoff Scholarship Program (MSP) participants at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and to develop a more solid causal foundation for claims of the program's impact. The primary program emphasis is to increase the number of underrepresented minority scientists and engineers, especially African American. The MSP brings to bear a comprehensive array of supports toward achievement of this goal, including: a comprehensive financial package contingent upon maintaining a B average in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) major; a pre-freshmen year 6-week Summer Bridge Program; full-time advisors who monitor and support students on a regular basis; a family-like social and academic support system; widespread faculty involvement (including as research mentors); and participation in summer research internships. We utilize quantitative and qualitative methods to enhance understanding of why some MSP participants pursue and complete PhDs while others do not (Study One), and to compare the STEM PhD outcomes of MSP participants with a comparison sample of non-participants (Study Two). Our first specific aim is to test a conceptual model linking pre-college student characteristics to student experience in the MSP and success in college, and in turn, the pathways from these college variables to PhD pursuit and receipt. Structural equation modeling will be the primary approach used in this aspect of the research, supplemented by qualitative methods. The second specific aim is to establish stronger causal inferences regarding the efficacy of the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program by using an approach that avoids many of the potential sources of bias that may be present in past efforts to estimate the impact of the MSP and other intervention strategies with similar goals. Specifically, propensity score matching will be used for this aspect of the research.

该建议旨在增强对博士学位途径的理解 马里兰州马里兰州大学的Meyerhoff奖学金计划（MSP）参与者 县（UMBC），并为该计划的主张建立更坚实的因果基础 影响。主要计划的重点是增加代表性不足的少数群体的数量 科学家和工程师，尤其是非裔美国人。 MSP带来全面的 为实现这一目标的支持阵列，包括：全面的财务方案 取决于在科学，技术，工程或数学中保持B平均水平 （STEM）专业；一年级的6周夏季桥梁计划；全职顾问谁 定期监视和支持学生；像家庭般的社会和学术支持 系统;广泛的教师参与（包括研究导师）；并参与 夏季研究实习。我们利用定量和定性方法来增强 了解某些MSP参与者为何攻读和完成博士学位，而另一些参与者没有 （研究一个），并比较MSP参与者的STEM PHD结果与比较 非参与者的样本（研究二）。 我们的第一个具体目的是测试一个概念模型，将前大学的学生特征与 学生在MSP和大学成功方面的经验，然后是这些的途径 大学变量为博士追求和收据。结构方程建模将是主要的 在研究的这一方面使用的方法，并补充了定性方法。 第二个具体目的是建立有关该疗效的更强因果推断 Meyerhoff奖学金计划通过使用一种避免许多潜在来源的方法 过去努力可能存在的偏见，以估计MSP和其他的影响 具有类似目标的干预策略。具体而言，倾向得分匹配将用于 研究的这一方面。