HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Co-Curricular Strategies to Support Academically Challenged Diverse Undergraduate STEM Majors

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这个Track 2：IEP项目旨在提供基于证据的战略性课程干预的协调组合，以支持不同的STEM专业，他们在学业道路上处于早期挣扎。由于许多不同的学生在学业上和动机上都没有为学位的成功做好准备，该项目将针对不同的计算机科学、工程、生物学和海洋生物学专业的学生，这些学生被安排在(或通过早期识别被认为有被安排在学术试用期的风险)。由STEM教师、行业和近同行教练/导师/榜样组成的跨部门团队将共同努力，提供及时和持续的基于资产的指导/指导、专门的STEM辅导以及基于研究和行业的体验式学习活动。教练/导师将接受培训，充当盟友，促进积极的学术心态，为高质量的综合资源提供指导(并在必要时提供推荐)，以满足学生的个人学术和个人需求。该项目将对STEM高等教育中关于学业成功结果(特别是在HSI代表性不足的学生中)与协调的支持计划和服务之间的关系的知识体系做出重要发现。这一做法将使社会受益，因为它增加了就业人数偏低的学生的毕业率，从而增加了高需求STEM职业领域的就业多样性。该项目的目标将是更好地了解STEM本科生(特别是那些代表性不足的本科生)在有前途的STEM领域从事职业并为美国创新经济做出贡献的留住和获得学位方面的问题。结果将是一个健全的教育做法的典范，它将在增加成功措施方面产生有希望的证据，表明在STEM中历来代表性不足的学生的参与范围正在扩大。研究假设将是：一个集中的暑期项目，重点是提供有意义的、全面的支持，并发展学生之间的个人关系，可以减少/最大限度地减少/最大限度地减少STEM学术环境中学业困难的代表不足的学生的挫折感和缺乏自信，并帮助这些学生实现他们的潜力，留校率和毕业率证明了这一点。早期(探索性)研究计划将有助于教育中的核心知识，审查项目干预措施与参与者保留率和毕业率之间的相关性；研究方法将涉及确定暑期计划活动可能改善保留率和毕业率的证据。该案例研究将有助于在针对代表性不足/跨领域STEM学生的高影响力项目和服务中促进知识的发展，展示有效、实用的方法，为解决文化响应问题带来新的视角。将通过演讲、出版物和建立一个供其他教育工作者、研究人员和政策制定者使用的新网站来传播最佳做法和案例研究结果。共享的知识体系将促进机会公平，增加美国智力资本，让更多未被充分代表的学生取得成功。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 2: IEP project aims to offer a coordinated combination of evidence-based strategic co-curricular interventions to support diverse STEM majors who are struggling early in their academic pathways. Because many diverse students are underprepared both academically and motivationally for degree success, the project will target diverse Computer Science, Engineering, Biology, and Marine Biology majors who are placed on (or who through early identification are deemed to be at risk of being placed on) academic probation. An intersectional team of STEM faculty, industry, and near-peer coaches/mentors/role models will work collectively to provide timely and continuous asset-based coaching/mentoring, specialized STEM tutoring, and research and industry-based experiential learning activities. Coaches/mentors will be trained to serve as allies to facilitate a positive academic mindset, providing guidance (and referrals as needed) to high-quality wrap-around resources to address students’ individual academic and personal needs. The project will contribute important findings to the body of knowledge in STEM higher education regarding the relationship between academic success outcomes (especially among underrepresented students at HSIs) and coordinated support programs and services. The approach will benefit society by increasing underrepresented student graduation leading to increased employment diversity in high demand STEM occupational fields. The project goal will be to better understand issues in the retention and degree attainment of STEM undergraduates (especially those who are underrepresented) to pursue careers in promising STEM fields and contribute to the American innovation economy. The outcome will be a model of sound educational practices that generate promising evidence in increasing success measures that indicate the broadening participation of students who are historically underrepresented in STEM. The research hypothesis will be: An intensive summer program that focuses on providing meaningful, holistic support and developing individual relationships with and between students, can reduce/minimize feelings of frustration and a lack of self-confidence among academically challenged underrepresented students in the STEM academic environment, and help those students achieve their potential as demonstrated by retention and graduation rates. The Early-Stage (Exploratory) Research plan will contribute to core knowledge in education, examining correlations between project interventions and participant retention and graduation rates; the research methodology will involve identifying evidence of the potential of summer program activities to improve retention and graduation. The case study will contribute to the advancement of knowledge in high impact programs and services specific to underrepresented/ intersectional STEM students, demonstrating effective, practical ways to bring a new perspective to addressing cultural responsiveness. Dissemination of best practices and case study results will be achieved through presentations, publications, and establishment of a new website for use by other educators, researchers, and policymakers. The body of knowledge shared will advance opportunity equity, increasing US intellectual capital for underrepresented students to succeed in greater numbers. 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.