Increasing Student Success in STEM

在不断改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这项由萨格拉多科拉松大学(Sagrado)发起的名为“提高学生在STEM中的成功”的Track 1项目旨在增加Sagrado的学生数量和比例，他们选择并保留STEM专业，完成STEM学位，并在毕业后获得STEM就业机会。在波多黎各，在经历了十年的严重经济衰退和最近毁灭性的飓风之后，STEM工人严重短缺。Sagrado旨在帮助STEM专业的一年级和二年级学生克服入门数学课程中的障碍，这是全国公认的STEM成功的障碍。所有萨格拉多的学生(100%)都是西班牙裔。“提高学生在STEM的成功”将侧重于同伴辅导和指导、研究和实习、职业咨询、行业指导和教师发展，从而导致关键的门户数学课程修订。这些改进旨在增加短期留用、秋季留用、六年毕业和毕业后进入STEM就业的机会。该项目最终将有助于增加波多黎各本地培养的STEM人才，作为重建经济的关键机制。它还将提高萨格拉多与当地关键行业发展和保持合作伙伴关系的能力，这将为我们的学生带来新的研究和实习体验。随着该大学维持这种模式，这些合作伙伴关系将产生持久的影响。除了考察这些活动如何影响结果之外，该项目还将通过检验以下方面的效果来产生新的知识：(1)同行指导对STEM专业保留率的影响；(2)学生在本科早期参与关于STEM专业保留率和毕业后STEM就业的研究或实习经验；(3)关于STEM专业保留率和STEM就业的行业指导和职业咨询；以及(4)关于STEM专业保留率和STEM就业的教师培训、课程修订和发展。评估机制将包括来自学生调查和访谈的反馈，以及来自研究教授和选定合作伙伴公司的评估。这将有助于评估学生对所选领域的信心和满意度，以及对学生坚持专业的影响。项目工作人员将通过校园和教职员工会议在当地传播成果，更广泛地说，通过会议演示和同行评议期刊上的出版物来传播成果。教师发展和学生研究指导活动将包括兼职教师，这将产生知识，这些经验为兼职(非终身教职流)STEM教师如何改善教和学。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project titled "Increasing Student Success in STEM" by Universidad del Sagrado Corazon, Inc. (Sagrado) aims to increase the number and percentage of students at Sagrado who select and remain in STEM majors, complete STEM degrees, and secure STEM employment after graduation. In Puerto Rico the shortage of STEM workers is severe after a decade of serious economic decline and recent devastating hurricanes. Sagrado seeks to help first- and second-year students in STEM majors overcome obstacles in gateway math courses, which are nationally acknowledged barriers to STEM success. All Sagrado students (100%) are Hispanic. "Increasing Student Success in STEM" will focus on peer tutoring and mentoring, research and internships, career counseling, industry mentoring, and faculty development, leading to key gateway math course revisions. These improvements aim to increase within-term retention, fall-to-fall retention, six-year graduation, and placement into STEM employment post-graduation. This project will ultimately contribute to increasing locally grown STEM talent in Puerto Rico as a key mechanism to rebuilding the economy. It will also increase Sagrado's capacity to develop and maintain partnerships with key local industries, which will lead to new research and internship experiences for our students. These partnerships will have a lasting impact as the university sustains this model. In addition to examining how the activities impact the outcomes, this project will generate new knowledge by examining the effect of: (1) peer mentoring on retention in STEM majors; (2) student participation in a research or internship experience early in their undergraduate studies on retention in STEM majors and STEM employment after graduation; (3) industry mentoring and career counseling on retention in STEM majors and STEM employment; and (4) faculty training and curricular revisions and development on retention in STEM majors and STEM employment. Assessment mechanisms will include feedback from student surveys and interviews, and evaluations from research professors and selected partner companies. These will help assess students' confidence and satisfaction in their chosen field, and the effect on students' persistence in the major. Project staff will disseminate the results locally through campus-wide and faculty meetings, and more generally through conference presentations and publications in peer-reviewed journals. Faculty development and student research mentoring activities will include adjunct faculty, which will generate knowledge on how these experiences for part-time (non-tenure stream) STEM instructors improve teaching and learning. The 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 goals.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.