Statewide effort to diversify undergraduate engineering student population.

该项目旨在研究一个框架，通过考虑学生学术经历的整体视角，重新评估入学标准，以减少对标准化考试的强调。研究表明，过于重视标准化考试会导致对学生在学业上取得成功的实际潜力的误解。学生，尤其是有色人种和女性学生，经常受到刻板印象威胁的负面影响，这已经被证明会导致较低的考试成绩。因此，考试成绩并不能准确反映学生的能力。内布拉斯加大学林肯分校（University of Nebraska-Lincoln）的工程学院（College of engineering）正在扩大招生审查程序，不再强调标准化考试成绩，而是纳入更广泛的学术和社会指标。内布拉斯加州高中毕业生人口结构的变化，特别是西班牙裔/拉丁裔/黑人人口的增长，使内布拉斯加大学林肯分校成为研究这些变化对留校率和毕业率的影响以及后续学生支持计划对这些学生的影响的理想场所。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。

This project seeks to investigate a framework that reassesses admissions criteria to deemphasize standardized tests by considering a holistic perspective of a student's academic experience. Research shows that putting too much weight on standardized tests results in a misrepresentation of a student's actual potential for academic success. Students, particularly students of color and women, are often negatively impacted by stereotype threat which has been shown to result in lower test scores. Therefore, test scores do not accurately reflect a student's ability.To broaden participation in engineering, the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is broadening the admission review process to deemphasize standardized test scores and include a wider array of academic and social indicators. The changing demographics of Nebraska's high school graduates, and in particular the growth of the Hispanic/Latino/a population, make University of Nebraska-Lincoln an ideal place to study the impact of these changes on retention and graduation and the efficacy of subsequent student support programs for these students.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.