Analyzing the Impact of the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program: Pathways to the STEM P

分析 Meyerhoff 奖学金计划的影响：通往 STEM P 的途径

• 批准号: 7728065
• 负责人: KENNETH Ira MATON
• 金额: $ 25.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-11 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7728065
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; African American; Area; Baltimore; Behavioral; Characteristics; Cognitive; Communities; County; Data; Doctor of Philosophy; Engineering; Equation; Faculty; Family; Financial Support; Foundations; Goals; Grant; Internships; Intervention; Lead; Link; Literature; Maryland; Mathematics; Measures; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Monitor; Nature; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Policies; Probability; Qualitative Methods; Research; Research Support; Sampling; Scholarship; Science; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Shapes; Solid; Source; Structural Models; Students; Support System; Technology; Testing; Time; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Ursidae Family; base; career; college; design; experience; high school; improved; interest; longitudinal design; programs; public health relevance; social; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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. 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 an array of quantitative and qualitative methods to enhance understanding of why some MSP participants pursue and complete PhDs while others do not (Studies 1 and 2), and to compare the educational outcomes of MSP participants with comparison samples of non-participants (Study 3). 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 used in this aspect of the research. The second specific aim is to provide an exceptionally detailed, real-time exploration of changes in student pathways to the PhD at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. A mixed method, semester-by-semester design will be employed for this aspect of the research. Our third specific aim is to establish stronger causal inferences regarding the efficacy of the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program by using two approaches that avoid 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 and a regression discontinuity design will be used for this final aspect of the research. Public Health Relevance Statement: Given the MSP's primary emphasis on increasing the number of underrepresented minority scientists, and the high numbers of African American graduates of the program who have entered and completed science, technology, engineering and mathematics PhDs to date, the findings of the research will have important implications for increased understanding as well as improved programmatic and policy efforts to enhance the number of minority scientists in our nation.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案旨在增强对马里兰州巴尔的摩县（UMBC）的Meyerhoff奖学金计划（MSP）参与者之间博士学位的理解，并为该计划的影响索赔奠定了更坚实的因果基础。主要计划的重点是增加代表性不足的少数族裔科学家和工程师的数量，尤其是非裔美国人。 MSP为实现这一目标提供了全面的支持，包括：全面的财务方案，取决于维持科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）专业的B平均水平；一年级的6周夏季桥梁计划；定期监视和支持学生的专职顾问；像家庭一样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。我们利用一系列定量和定性方法来增强对某些MSP参与者为何追求和完整的博士而而没有的理解（研究1和2），并比较MSP参与者的教育成果与非参与者的比较样本（研究3）。我们的第一个具体目的是测试一个概念模型，将学生特征与MSP的学生体验联系起来以及在大学成功的阶段，进而将这些大学变量到博士追求和收据的途径。结构方程建模将用于研究的这一方面。第二个具体目的是提供对本科和研究生级别的学生途径变化的非常详细的实时探索。研究的这一方面将采用一种混合的方法，学期设计。我们的第三个具体目的是通过使用两种方法来避免在过去的努力中可能存在的许多潜在偏见来源来估算MSP和其他具有类似目标的干预策略的影响，从而建立有关Meyerhoff奖学金计划有效性的更强大的因果推断。具体而言，倾向得分匹配和回归不连续性设计将用于研究的最后一个方面。 公共卫生相关性声明：鉴于MSP的主要重点是增加代表性不足的少数群体科学家的数量，以及该计划的大量非洲裔美国毕业生，他们进入并完成了科学，技术，技术，工程和数学博士，迄今为止，这项研究的发现将对不断提高的理解和政策努力提高了研究的重要意义，以提高该计划。