Ensuring Early Mathematics Success for STEM Majors

确保STEM专业学生的早期数学成功（EEMS）计划整合了学术支持和干预服务，以提高以下人群的毕业率：1)从其他机构转学的STEM专业学生，2)第一年数学课程不及格的新生，以及3)第一年及后续数学课程表现不佳的普通学生。为了提高学生的表现，减少课程失败的风险，减少人员流失，或增加获得学位的时间，EEMS计划包括夏季桥梁项目，用于转移STEM专业和进入STEM专业的大一新生，他们有可能在第一年的数学课程和所有STEM专业的同伴领导的团队学习（PLTL）中失败。EEMS计划旨在提高确定的高危群体的坚持率，以达到目前的第一年STEM专业坚持率（80.9%），这将使每年至少增加66名STEM毕业生。少数族裔学生在这些面临风险的学生中所占比例过高，这表明该项目将对这一群体的留校率和毕业率产生更大的影响。除了传统的期刊和会议传播场所外，来自马萨诸塞州城市LSAMP和其他感兴趣的机构的教师也被邀请观察该计划并参加PLTL研讨会。

The Ensuring Early Mathematics Success for STEM Majors (EEMS) initiative integrates academic support and intervention services to increase graduation rates among 1) STEM majors who transfer from other institutions, 2) incoming freshmen at risk of failing first-year mathematics courses, and 3) students in the general population who underperform in first-year and subsequent mathematics courses. In order to improve student performance and reduce the risk of course failure, attrition, or increased time to degree the EEMS initiative includes summer bridge programs for transferring STEM majors and entering freshman STEM majors at risk of failing first-year mathematics courses and Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) for all STEM majors. The EEMS Initiative seeks to increase persistence rates among the identified at-risk groups to match the current first-year STEM major persistence rate (80.9%), which will produce an increase of at least 66 STEM graduates per year. Underrepresented minority students are overrepresented among these at risk students, suggesting the program will have a proportionally larger impact on retention and graduation rates for this group. In addition to traditional journal and conference venues for dissemination, faculty from institutions in the Urban Massachusetts LSAMP and other interested institutions are invited to observe the program and participate in PLTL workshops.