The Impact of Relevance, Belonging, and Growth Mindset on Persistence in Economics

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该项目旨在通过研究机构设置对经济学领域代表性不足的种族/少数民族学生和妇女的影响，加强中等收入学校的经济学能力。PI调查了过去关于相关性，归属感和成长心态的研究结果在多大程度上超越了单一机构，以及大学环境如何与学生作为经济学家的身份发展相互作用。较低的相关性，归属感和成长心态与经济学专业的较差成绩和较低的持久性有关。这个项目提出了一个重要的除了我们的相关性，归属感，增长的心态，并通过增加研究的机构和人口广度经济学的持久性的理解。在经济学领域有更广泛的代表性将导致更具包容性的企业和政策，并加速经济增长。本项目将加深对相关性、归属感和增长心态作为不同环境下变革的潜在障碍或杠杆所发挥作用的理解。PI对18所大学的学生和教师进行了纵向调查，按教育类型进行分层，以检查MSIs和女子学院的经济学课程与非MSIs和男女同校机构的经济学课程中的顺从性，归属感和成长心态是否有所不同。收集相关性，归属感，成长心态和持久性的数据，从大约1,800名学生在不同的时间点（相隔一年）在他们的教育轨迹的不同点，将有助于区分选择机构从这些机构的经验的影响。理解MSI和女子学院在促进经济学的相关性、归属感、成长心态和持久性方面的作用，将为促进经济学多样性的干预措施指明重要方向。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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This project aims to strengthen capacity in economics at MSIs through research on the impact of institutional setting on underrepresented racial/ethnic minority students and women in economics. The PIs investigate to what extent the past findings on relevance, belonging, and growth mindset generalize beyond a single institution and how the university context interacts with students' development of an identity as an economist. Lower relevance, belonging and growth mindset are linked to worse grades and lower persistence in economics majors. This project proposes an important addition to our understanding of relevance, belonging, growth mindset, and persistence in economics by increasing the institutional and demographic breadth of research. Broader representation in economics will lead to more inclusive businesses and policy and accelerate economic growth.This project will increase understanding of the roles that relevance, belonging and growth mindset play as potential barriers or levers for change across diverse settings. The PIs use longitudinal surveys of students and faculty at 18 universities stratified by educational type to examine if releance, belonging and growth mindset develop differently in economics classes at MSIs and women's colleges than at non-MSIs and co-educational institutions. Collecting data on relevance, belonging, and growth mindset and persistence from approximately 1,800 students at different points in their educational trajectory at different points in time (a year apart) will facilitate distinguishing selection into institutions from the impact of experiences in those institutions. Understanding the role of MSIs and women’s colleges in promoting relevance, belonging, and growth mindset and persistence in economics will indicate important directions for interventions to promote diversity in economics.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.