THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AT CAYEY METAS+ : Maintaining, Engaging, and Tracking Alumni in Science and Health Research

波多黎各大学凯伊梅塔斯分校：维持、吸引和跟踪科学与健康研究领域的校友

• 批准号: 10037860
• 负责人: Jose Caraballo
• 金额: $ 30.76万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PR CAYEY UNIVERSITY COLL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-04 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10037860
• 关键词: Address; African American student; Anthropology; Area; Asians; Award; Bachelor' s Degree; Characteristics; Collaborations; Control Groups; Data Science; Degree Completion; Doctor of Philosophy; Economics; Education; Educational Intervention; Effectiveness; Enrollment; Ensure; Experimental Designs; Goals; Graduate Education; Graduate Enrollment; Health; Hispanic-serving Institution; Intervention; Latino; Life; Mentors; Methods; Minority-Serving Institution; Natural Sciences; Outcome; Participant; Pathway interactions; Population; Positioning Attribute; Principal Investigator; Professional counselor; Psychological reinforcement; Psychology; Puerto Rico; Randomized; Research; Research Design; Sample Size; Schools; Science; Scientist; Selection Bias; Service Statistics; Social Sciences; Statistical Methods; Student Persistence; Students; Testing; Training; Universities; college; cost effective; design; effective intervention; effectiveness testing; efficacy testing; evidence base; experience; experimental group; improved; innovation; intervention cost; minority undergraduate; programs; satisfaction; skills; sociodemographics; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

Despite significant advances to diversify the biomedical workforce, the proportion of Ph.D. degrees awarded to Latinos is still 7% and only 48% of those who enroll in a doctorate program complete their degree. The project METAS+ (Maintaining, Engaging, and Tracking Alumni in Science and Health Research; also GOALS+ in Spanish) seeks to diversify the biomedical workforce by testing, with well-designed scientific approaches, the efficacy of training interventions that can equip Latino undergraduates to successfully transition to biomedical graduate programs. The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR-C) is ideally positioned to address this challenge because its student population is 100% Latino. Approximately 300 UPR-C students engaged in UGR yearly and most seek to pursue graduate studies in STEM or biomedical areas. METAS+ seeks to test the effectiveness of 1) previous mentored UGR experiences provided at UPR-C and 2) an innovative on campus and on-line group coaching intervention that is envisioned as a reinforcement to such UGR experiences. Results will be assessed at three stages of a student’s pathway into science: 1) college graduation, 2) enrollment in a biomedical graduate program and 3) the first year of graduate school; something not done previously. To achieve robustness in the analysis, we will use Propensity Score Matching, a statistical method that mimics experimental approaches and controls for self-selection-bias by identifying and matching Latinos with similar socio-demographic and academic characteristics who only differ in the treatment variable (UGR). To test the efficacy of the new coaching reinforcement, we will use an experimental design by randomly assigning 80 students to a control group (no intervention) and an experimental group (coaching). In the long-term, the project is expected to reveal the benefit of evidenced-based sustainable interventions that can cast a broad net of participants at Minority Serving Institutions to truly diversify the scientific workforce.

尽管生物医学劳动力多样化，但博士学位的比例。授予的学位 拉丁美洲人仍然是7％，只有入学博士学位的人中只有48％完成学位。项目 Metas+（维持，参与和跟踪科学与健康研究的校友；也是目标+ 西班牙语）旨在通过测试，精心设计的科学方法来使生物医学劳动力多样化 培训干预措施的功效，可以使拉丁裔大学生成功过渡到生物医学 研究生课程。波多黎各的卡耶大学（UPR-C）的理想位置可以解决这个问题 挑战是因为其学生人数为100％拉丁裔。大约300名UPR-C学生参加 UGR一年，大多数人试图在STEM或生物医学领域购买研究生学习。 Metas+试图测试 1）以前在UPR-C提供的UGR经验和2）关于 校园和在线团体教练干预措施被设想为这种UGR的增强 经验。结果将在学生进入科学途径的三个阶段进行评估：1） 毕业，2）招生生物医学研究生课程和3）研究生院的第一年；某物 以前没有完成。为了在分析中实现鲁棒性，我们将使用统计的统计评分匹配 通过识别和匹配模仿实验方法和对照自我选择偏置的方法 具有相似社会人口统计学和学术特征的拉丁美洲人只在治疗变量上有所不同 （UGR）。为了测试新教练增强的效率，我们将使用实验设计 将80名学生随机分配给对照组（无干预）和一个实验组（教练）。 长期，该项目有望揭示基于证据的可持续干预措施的好处 可以在少数派服务机构的少数派参与者中销售大量的参与者，以真正使科学劳动力多样化。