Using Interconnected Career Pathways and Success Coaching to Enhance Student Success in STEM

在改进的本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)计划的支持下，这个Track 1项目旨在提高STEM领域的学生的成功。它将通过开发从高中到STEM职业生涯的具有文化包容性的STEM职业道路的区域模式来做到这一点。这些途径将特别侧重于网络安全和机电/工程领域的职业，这些职业对劳动力的需求很高，提供了高薪的职业途径。这一STEM职业道路模式将旨在加强以人际关系为导向的学生支持和指导，以帮助学生度过关键的过渡阶段，如从高中到大学的过渡。预计这些支持将提高STEM学生的成功率，特别是来自西班牙裔或低收入人口的学生。该项目还将支持改进STEM课程，实施积极学习等影响较大的做法，以及获得研究和基于工作的学习经验。通过加强STEM的学习体验，该项目寻求提高学生的入学率、保留率、两年和四年制学位完成率以及学生的就业安置。该项目旨在产生设计STEM职业道路模式的有效实践，并将与更广泛的高等教育界分享其发现。该项目旨在产生关于如何通过定义职业道路和支持这些路径上的学生来提高STEM学生成功的新知识。通过在网络安全和机电一体化/工程领域嵌入转学计划路径，该项目将增加学生进入这些领域STEM劳动力的机会。项目目标是：1)提高保留率、学分积累、毕业和STEM职业生涯进入成果；2)通过跨部门伙伴关系，增加学生，包括西班牙裔和低收入学生，参与以课程为基础的本科研究和体验式学习；3)通过创新的STEM教与学策略和课程模式，改善学生的学业和职业成果。项目评估包括一项准实验性影响研究，通过比较队列和非队列学生的结果来检查结果，从而能够评估不同组之间的差异结果。项目中期成果趋势报告以及赠款后影响研究将通过在STEM会议、出版物和向非NSF资助的HSI进行宣传来传播。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 seeks to improve the success of students in STEM fields. It will do so by developing a regional model of culturally inclusive STEM career pathways that span from high school to STEM careers. The pathways will focus especially on careers in cybersecurity and mechatronics/engineering, which have high workforce demands and offer well-paying career pathways. This STEM career pathways model will be designed to enhance relationship-oriented student supports and coaching to help students across critical transitions, such as the transition from high school to college. It is expected that these supports will result in increased success rates among STEM students, particularly students from Hispanic or low-income populations. The project will also support improvements in STEM curricula, implementation of high-impact practices such as active learning, and access to research and work-based learning experiences. By enhancing the STEM learning experience, the project seeks to increase enrollment, retention rates, two- and four-year degree completion rates, and career placement of students. The project seeks to generate effective practices for designing a STEM career pathway model and will share its findings with the broader higher education community.The project aims to generate new knowledge about how to enhance student success in STEM by defining career pathways and supporting students in those pathways. By embedding transfer program pathways in cybersecurity and mechatronics/engineering, the project will enhance opportunities for students to enter the STEM workforce in these fields. Project goals are to: 1) Increase retention, credit-hour accumulation, graduation, and STEM career entry outcomes; 2) Increase engagement of students, including Hispanic and low-income students, in course-based undergraduate research and experiential learning through cross-sector partnerships; 3) Improve academic and career outcomes for students through innovative STEM teaching and learning strategies and curricular models. The project evaluation includes a quasi-experimental impact study to examine results by comparing outcomes for cohort and non-cohort students, enabling assessment of differential outcomes between groups. Mid-project outcome-trend reports, as well as the post-grant impact study, will be disseminated via presentations at STEM conferences, publications, and outreach to non-NSF funded HSIs. 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 aims.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.