Student Supports Organized to Achieve Results

该项目将通过支持高成就、低收入、有经济需求的学生在柑橘学院留校和毕业来促进国家对受过良好教育的计算机科学家、数学家、工程师和物理学家的需求。柑橘学院是一所指定的两年制 拉美裔服务机构。在为期6年的时间里，该项目将为60名正在攻读计算机科学、工程、物理和数学副学士学位的全日制和兼职学生提供奖学金。全日制学者有资格获得两年的资助，兼职学者有资格获得三年的资助。所有学者都将有机会获得全面的联合课程活动和学生支持服务，包括指导、队列活动和体验式学习。 该项目将利用现有的基于证据的校园计划来加强和扩大综合服务，以提高保留率、课程成功率和项目完成率，更重要的是，转移到授予学士学位的机构。 同时，该项目将提高微积分的成功率，目标是通过教学重新设计来缓解低收入学生和经济条件较好的同龄人之间的结果差异。该项目中概述的活动，包括微积分重新设计，有可能扩大柑橘学院的STEM参与，并通过在全国范围内传播结果来扩大参与。该项目的总体目标是提高STEM领域低收入、高成就、有明显经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。为了确保低收入、高潜力的STEM学生在课程和校园活动中充分参与并取得成功，该项目将同时满足学生的认知和非认知需求。循证干预措施包括指导、队列活动和讲习班、综合支持服务、体验式学习模块、实习和研究经验。此外，项目团队认识到，在中学后教育的第一年完成微积分有助于学生在STEM中坚持不懈。然而，研究表明，全国有很大比例的学生，特别是低收入家庭的学生，在微积分方面不成功。该项目将支持教师重新评估微积分课程，采用主动学习教学法，并为柑橘学院的三个微积分课程(I、II和III)开发课堂模块和材料。严格的独立评估和研究，再加上通过项目网站、期刊文章和会议报告的广泛传播，有可能促进对两年制大学生参与和支持的知识和理解，以及提高低收入STEM专业留住和坚持所需的课程和教学改革的类型。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学业成功、留住、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers and physicists by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Citrus College, a two-year designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Over its 6-year duration, this project will provide scholarships to 60 full- and part-time students who are pursuing associate’s degrees in computer science, engineering, physics, and mathematics. Full-time scholars are eligible to receive two years of support and part-time scholars will receive three years of support. All scholars will have access to comprehensive co-curricular activities and student support services including mentoring, cohort activities, and experiential learning. The project will leverage existing evidence-based campus programs to strengthen and expand wrap-around services to increase retention, course success, program completion, and importantly, transfer to a baccalaureate degree-granting institution. Simultaneously, the project will increase success rates in calculus with a goal of mitigating outcome discrepancies between low-income students and their more economically privileged peers through an instructional redesign. The activities outlined in this project, including the calculus redesign, have the potential to broaden participation in STEM both at Citrus College and, through the dissemination of results, across the Nation. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields with demonstrated financial need. To ensure that low-income, high-potential STEM students are fully engaged and successful with coursework and campus activities, this project will address both cognitive and non-cognitive needs of students. Evidence-based interventions include mentoring, cohort activities and workshops, wrap-around support services, experiential learning modules, internships, and research experiences. Additionally, the project team recognizes that completion of calculus in the first year of post-secondary education contributes to student persistence in STEM. Yet, the research shows that a large percentage of students nationwide, particularly low-income students, are unsuccessful in calculus. The project will support faculty as they reassess the calculus curriculum, adopt active learning pedagogies, and develop in-class modules and materials for each of the three Citrus College calculus classes (I, II, and III). Rigorous independent evaluation and research, coupled with broad dissemination via the project website, journal articles, and conference presentations, have the potential to advance knowledge and understanding of two-year college student engagement and support as well as the type of curricular and pedagogical transformations needed to improve the retention and persistence of low-income STEM majors. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income 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.