Building Capacity: An Intervention to Improve Success of Biology Majors in Mathematics

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。洛杉矶使命学院的这个项目将通过发展以学生为中心的干预来支持生物学本科学生的成功，从而推进HSI计划的目标。该项目旨在提高生物学专业学生在洛杉矶使命学院（Los Angeles Mission College）学习课程的成功率，并帮助他们转学到四年制大学。该项目计划通过每周一次的学术成功研讨会来实现这些目标，帮助生物学专业的学生通过大学代数和三角函数课程。这种干预有望通过数学刺激学生对生物学的参与，这将增加学生在入门数学课程中的成功和保留率，以及对专业的坚持。该项目的目标是提高生物专业学生的坚持度、成功率、保留率和转学率，重点是大学代数和三角函数课程的学生。通过学术成功研讨会，使生物学的定量方面更具吸引力和相关性，该项目旨在提高学生在大学代数和三角学方面的成功率和保留率。学术成功研讨会将促进学生的同伴学习，旨在增加学生之间的社区意识。来自洛杉矶教会学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校的教师将开发补充材料，并通过在洛杉矶教会学院实施的学术成功研讨会提供的反馈来完善它们。该项目还将为来自其他机构的教师举办研讨会，以提高其生物学专业的定量经验。该项目将调查在学术成功讲习班中使用的补充材料对学生在大学代数和三角学方面的成功、对微积分的坚持以及成功转入四年制大学的影响。该项目将分析参加学业成功研讨会的学生和没有参加的学生的表现。该项目将开发一个针对生物科学领域不同学生群体的模型，通过生物科学领域的情境化数学来提高成功率、保留率和学位完成率。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project at Los Angeles Mission College will advance the aims of the HSI Program by developing a student-centered intervention to support the success of undergraduate biology students. The project aims to increase the success of biology majors in their courses at Los Angeles Mission College and in transfer to four-year universities. This project plans to achieve these aims through weekly academic success workshops that help biology majors pass college algebra and trigonometry courses. This intervention is expected to stimulate student engagement in biology through mathematics, which will increase student success and retention in gateway mathematics courses and persistence in the major. The goals of this project are to increase the persistence, success, retention rates, and transfer rates of biology majors, with a focus on those in college algebra and trigonometry courses. By making the quantitative aspects of biology more engaging and relevant via academic success workshops, the project aims to increase student success and retention rates in college algebra and trigonometry. The academic success workshops will facilitate student peer learning that are designed to increase a sense of community among students. Faculty from Los Angeles Mission College and the University of California, Los Angeles, will develop the supplemental materials and refine them via feedback provided through implementation of academic success workshops at Los Angeles Mission College. This project will also hold workshops for faculty from other institutions seeking to enhance the quantitative experience of their biology majors. The project will investigate the impact of supplemental materials used in academic success workshops on student success in college algebra and trigonometry, persistence to calculus, and successful transfer to four-year universities. The project will analyze performance of students who attended the academic success workshops to students who did not. The project will develop a model that targets a diverse student population in the biological sciences that may increase success, retention, and degree completion rates via contextualized mathematics in the biological sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.