Broadening Participation Research Project: Investigating Culturally Responsive Mentoring Practices in HBCU Research Experiences for Undergraduates

该项目将应用社会科学中的理论框架来考察HBCU的STEM本科生研究经验。这项混合方法调查将观察、衡量和描述HBCU的学生、教职员工如何在STEM本科生研究体验中参与文化响应的指导实践。调查人员将进入研究空间(研究实验室、校园研究项目等)。收集对辅导实践的观察，并记录在HBCU STEM各种研究环境中响应文化的辅导是什么样子。然后，调查人员将探索和衡量导师制度对HBCU STEM学生参与和留住的影响。该项目将制定方法和指导方针，以促进在HBCU和其他背景下复制具有文化相关性的STEM本科生研究经验的指导模式。与文化相关的教育学将被用作一个理论框架来调查(1)在HBCU的STEM本科生研究经历中，导师制是什么样子？以及(2)辅导在HBCU STEM学生参与和保留本科生研究经历方面扮演了什么角色？调查人员将收集定量和定性数据，进行混合方法调查。将收集调查数据，以定量评估STEM研究经验中的辅导能力以及对辅导的感觉、信念、兴趣和态度。然后，他们将收集定性数据以反映多个观点，并了解其他数据源中的趋势、离群值和矛盾。这些数据将与观测数据相结合，以更准确地反映HBCU STEM研究实验室内的指导经验。调查人员将应用多种案例方法，深入描述HBCU STEM研究经验，并比较和对比不同的STEM研究环境。预计这项研究将产生可重现的结果。这一扩大对STEM教育研究项目的参与得到了历史上的黑人学院和大学本科课程的支持。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。

The project will apply theoretical frameworks within social science to examine STEM undergraduate research experiences at HBCUs. This mixed methodology investigation will observe, measure, and describe how students, faculty, and staff at HBCUs engage in culturally responsive mentoring practices within a STEM undergraduate research experience. The investigators will enter the research spaces (research laboratories, campus research programs, etc.) to collect observations of mentoring practices and document what culturally responsive mentoring looks like in various HBCU STEM research settings. The investigators will then explore and measure the influence of mentorship in the participation and retention of STEM students at HBCUs. The project will generate approaches and guidelines to facilitate the replication of a culturally relevant mentoring model for STEM undergraduate research experiences at HBCUs and other contexts. Culturally relevant pedagogy will be used as a theoretical framework to investigate (1) What does mentorship look like in STEM undergraduate research experiences at HBCUs? and (2) What role does mentoring play in the participation and retention of HBCU STEM students in undergraduate research experiences? Investigators will collect quantitative and qualitative data to conduct a mixed methodology investigation. Survey data will be collected to quantitatively assess mentoring competencies as well as feelings, beliefs, interests, and attitudes toward mentoring in STEM research experiences. They will then collect qualitative data to reflect multiple points of view and understand trends, outliers, and contradictions in other data sources. These data will be combined with observational data to more accurately represent the mentoring experience within HBCU STEM research laboratories. Investigators will apply multiple case approaches to develop an in-depth description of HBCU STEM research experiences and compare and contrast different STEM research environments. The research is expected to produce reproducible findings. This broadening participation in STEM education research project is supported by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program.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.