Building Capacity: Guiding Critical Transitions to the Baccalaureate

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。在滨江城市学院的这个项目将通过开发和分析六个干预措施对宣布STEM专业的滨江大学承诺计划学生的影响来推进HSI计划的目标。这些干预措施包括从高中到大学的夏桥计划、家庭课程、大学和职业讲习班、研究经验、近同伴指导和交叉入学课程。该项目旨在提高滨江城市学院STEM课程的保留率，并提高四年制机构（如加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校和加州大学滨江分校）的学士学位STEM学位的转移率。来自这些机构的项目合作者将领导滨江城市学院学生的夏季研究;来自加州大学欧文分校的教师将进行与该项目有关的教育研究。通过干预和合作伙伴关系，该项目旨在提高STEM学位课程的本科保留率，入学率，毕业率和转学率。该项目将调查一个程序及其子组件对学生的学习成绩和STEM学位获得的影响。该项目旨在确定提高学生学习成绩和坚持性的最关键组成部分，特别是对低收入和传统上代表性不足的少数群体。该项目还将调查学生在从高中到两年制大学和从两年制大学到四年制大学的关键过渡中取得成功的关键因素。项目研究将包括一个定量研究部分，采用严格的准实验设计，以了解项目对学生学业成绩的影响。该项目将收集有关干预措施对获得STEM学士学位的学生比例的影响的数据。一个定性研究的组成部分将产生一个关于每个子组件如何有助于客观的结果测量的理解，并将确定有关的子组件，学生参与水平，和潜在的实施障碍的看法。该研究成果将与其他寻求通过干预建立STEM学位课程的机构分享。该奖项反映了NSF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 Riverside City College will advance the aims of the HSI Program by developing and analyzing the impact of six interventions for Riverside College Promise Program students who have declared STEM majors. The interventions include a summer bridge program from high school to college, home courses, college and career workshops, research experiences, near-peer mentoring, and cross-enrollment courses. The project seeks to increase retention within STEM programs at Riverside City College as well as increase the transfer rates to baccalaureate STEM degrees at four-year institutions such as California State University, San Bernardino and the University of California, Riverside. Project collaborators from these institutions will lead summer research for Riverside City College students; faculty from the University of California, Irvine will conduct educational research related to the project. Through interventions and partnerships, this project seeks to increase undergraduate retention, enrollment, and graduation and transfer rates in STEM degree programs. This project will investigate the impact of a program and its sub-components on student academic performance and STEM degree attainment. The project seeks to determine the most critical components in improving student academic outcomes and persistence, particularly for low-income and traditionally underrepresented minorities. The project will also investigate factors essential to student success in navigating the critical transitions from high school to two-year college and from two-year college to four-year university. The project study will include a quantitative research component that employs a rigorous quasi-experimental design to understand the impact of the project on student academic outcomes. The project will gather data on the impact of the interventions on the rates of students earning a STEM baccalaureate degree. A qualitative research component will produce an understanding about how each sub-component contributes to an objective outcome measure and will ascertain perceptions about the sub-component, student involvement levels, and potential implementation barriers. Results of this research will be shared with other institutions seeking to build STEM degree programs via interventions.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.