AMP: A Study of the Facilitators and Barriers to the Participation of Science among African-Americans Attending HBCU's and Majority Institutions

0HRD-9729401英镑这项研究项目的目的是调查非裔美国人参与科学的推动者和障碍。这项研究不仅试图确定这些因素在多大程度上影响大学中的非裔美国人理科专业学生，而且还将试图确定与那些就读于多数族裔院校的非裔美国人相比，这些因素在这些因素中是否存在差异。本次调查选择的人口样本包括参加由国家科学基金会资助的少数群体参与联盟(AMP)计划的非裔美国人理科专业的学生。将分析现有数据，如少数群体参与监测和报告系统联盟(AMP-MARS)汇编的信息和国家教育统计中心(NCES)创建的数据库，以确定是否存在任何有据可查的促进者和阻碍科学参与的障碍。将创建、分发和收集更多的问卷和调查，按回答未涉及的更具体问题的顺序，并在各自的数据库中收集。对学生、教师和管理人员的个人访谈也将作为研究论文的一种形式，由该项目的主要调查人员之一为其辩护和完成。随着促进非裔美国人参与科学的特点和障碍被识别出来，这些信息可以用于学生项目的准备和规划。有效计划特征的确定也可能导致现有AMP计划或任何其他寻求增加科学队伍多样性的计划的结构和实施的变化。这项研究调查有可能为知识基础增加新的洞察力，这与未被充分代表的少数群体在科学和技术劳动力中的参与增加有关。该项目将试图以促进者和障碍的形式确定这些因素中的许多，并试图将就读HBCU的非裔美国学生的这些因素与那些就读于多数族裔机构的学生进行比较。

0HRD-9729401 Sterling It is the intent of this research project to investigate the facilitators and barriers to the participation of African-Americans in science. This study will not only attempt to determine to what extent do these factors affect African-American science majors in college, but it will also attempt to identify any existing differences among these factors for African-Americans attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as compared to those attending majority institutions. The population sample selected for this investigation consists of African-American science majors participating in the Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP) program funded by the National Science Foundation. Existing data, such as information complied in the Alliance for Minority Participation Monitoring and Reporting Systems (AMP-MARS) and databases created by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), will be analyzed to determine the existance of any documented facilitators and barriers to science participation. Additional questionnaires and surveys will be created, disseminated, and collected in order of answer more specific questions that were not addressed and in the respective databases. Personal interviews with students, faculty, and administrators will also serve as a form of a research dissertation, defended and completed by one of the principal investigators of this project. As facilitating characteristics and barriers to the participation of African-Americans in science are identified, this information could be used in the preparation and planning of student programs. The identification of effective program characteristics could also lead to changes in the structure and implementation of existing AMP programs, or any other program that seeks to increase diversity in the scientific workforce. This research investigation has the potential to add new insights to the knowledge-base related to the increased participation of und errepresented minorities in the scientific and technological workforce. This project will attempt to identify many of these factors in the form of facilitators and barriers and will also attempt to compare these factors for African-Americans students attending HBCU's against those attending majority institutions.