ACE Implementation Project: The UVI Growth Model

通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育和研究，为设计、实施、研究和评估全面的机构努力，通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育和研究，增加学生数量和他们的准备质量，实现竞争性卓越实施项目。维尔京群岛大学的这一项目旨在通过具体的循证干预培养成长心态和创造力。该项目将通过一项精心设计的教育研究研究进行验证，该研究重点是成长心态训练的新用途。该项目由持续的评估指导和提供信息。该项目的具体目标是：提高那些在大学生涯早期挣扎的STEM学生的保留率和持久率15%；提高STEM学生的总体持久率和毕业率10%；提高STEM学生的自我效能，通过有效、可靠的工具衡量；为新生建立一个以数学为重点的夏季桥梁计划；具有夏季和学年研究经验；在新生发展研讨会上进行心态培训；以及开发一个持续的、全面的以证据为基础的教师发展计划，这将为教师提供成功整体模式所需的技能和工具。该项目将提供一个经过验证的可复制模式，可供全国其他开放招生或低选择性大学和社区学院使用。

Achieving Competitive Excellence Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This project at the University of the Virgin Islands seeks to develop a growth mindset and creativity through specific evidence-based interventions. The project will be validated with a carefully designed educational research study which focuses on the novel use of growth mindset training. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation.Specific objectives of the project are to: increase by 15% the retention and persistence rates for those STEM students who struggle early in their college careers; increase by 10% overall persistence and graduation rates for STEM students; increase the self-efficacy of STEM students as measured by validated, reliable instruments; establish a summer bridge program focused on mathematics for incoming freshmen; have summer and academic year research experiences; conduct mindset training in the freshman development seminar; and develop a sustained, comprehensive evidence-based faculty development program, which will give faculty the skills and tools necessary for the success of the overall model. This project will provide a validated replicable model that can be used by other open admissions or low selectivity universities and community colleges throughout the Nation.