Broadening Impact: Key Factors That Improve Diversity in STEM Research Careers

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然许多研究侧重于具体的干预措施，但我们的目标是调查围绕干预措施的规范结构。整个机构的背景决定了干预是否能够成功地提高STEM学位的生产力，而教师在扩大参与和通过学科网络促进学生运动的每个阶段都是核心。该项目采用混合方法，在定量阶段使用大规模数据，并采用嵌入式定性设计，有助于解释机构如何提高STEM生产能力，并解释教师在与学生和STEM干预措施合作方面的经验。数据来源包括现有的有关机构培养STEM学士学位和最终获得STEM博士学位的联邦数据集；一项针对STEM教师的全国性调查；对2004年进入大学并打算主修STEM学科的学生进行了为期10年的跟踪调查；机构案例研究，特别关注机构结构、干预措施和教师在促进学生走向科学研究事业方面的作用；以及一项网络分析，绘制出成功学生在STEM道路上前进所使用的学术网络。该项目旨在提高对STEM生产的制度效率和教师在提高本科和研究生水平的STEM学位成就方面的作用的理解，同时也关注影响学生在学士学位后阶段选择STEM职业的无数个人层面因素。该项目旨在提供关于如何最好地支持干预和扩展实践的经验数据，以便机构及其教师提高学生在STEM研究职业中获得和成功的可能性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While many studies focus on specific interventions, our aim is to investigate the normative structures that surround interventions. Institution-wide contexts determine whether an intervention can be successful in increasing productivity of STEM degrees, and faculty are central to the process at every stage of broadening participation and facilitating student movement through disciplinary networks. The project involves a mixed method approach using large scale data in a quantitative phase with an embedded qualitative design that help explain how institutions increase capacity for STEM production and also explain the faculty experience in working with students and STEM interventions. Data sources include existing federal datasets on institutions' production of STEM bachelor's degrees and eventual STEM Ph.D. recipients; a national survey of STEM faculty; a 10-year follow-up survey of students who entered college in 2004 with intentions to major in a STEM discipline; case studies of institutions with a specific focus on institutional structures, interventions, and faculy roles in facilitating students' progress toward research careers in the sciences; and a network analysis that maps the academic networks successful students use to advance along their STEM pathways. This project seeks to improve understanding regarding institutional efficiency in STEM production and the faculty role in increasing STEM degree attainment at the undergraduate and graduate levels, while also remaining attentive to the myriad individual level factors that affect students' choices for STEM careers in the post- baccalaureate phase. This project aims to provide empirical data regarding how to best support interventions and expand practices so that institutions and their faculty improve the likelihood for students' access and success in STEM research careers.