UC Merced STEM Summer Start

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该轨道2项目旨在通过提供一套高质量的预科暑期教育体验来提高一年级本科STEM专业的成功和保留率，这些体验可供每个学生使用，并满足所有入学学生的学术准备需求。许多大学都有完善的、密集的夏桥课程。然而，这些项目的运行成本往往很高，而且覆盖的学生范围有限。该项目将探索广泛的程序格式，包括面对面和在线;短期和长期;基于社区的和独立的;和审查为导向的和加速为导向。对于所有这些计划，我们将特别注重连接夏季与第一学期的大学经验。我们预计，从我们的研究结果将是翔实的其他机构希望确定成功的，可扩展的模式预科暑期课程和加强夏季和第一年的学术经验之间的联系.加州大学，默塞德提出了一个全面的STEM早期启动暑期课程的预录取新生的实施.该计划旨在帮助历史上代表性不足的学生成功地向他们的STEM专业进行学术和社会过渡，并提高那些代表性不足的少数民族，第一代和佩尔合格的STEM学生坚持他们的STEM专业的学生的份额。特别是，STEM夏季启动计划将集中在三个目标：1。提供一套高质量的预科暑期教育体验，让每个学生都能获得，并满足新生的全面学术准备需求; 2.在夏季启动计划和秋季学期入门级STEM课程之间创建一个有凝聚力的连接体验，支持学生发展归属感，自我效能感和弹性，以及学术内容和学习技能;3.研究各种教学手段和早期启动的计划活动对学生成功的影响，包括入门级STEM课程的学术成功，STEM专业的保留，学位时间和选定的心理社会指标。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to increase success and retention of first-year undergraduate STEM majors by offering a suite of high-quality, pre-matriculation summer educational experiences that are accessible to every student and meet the full range of incoming student academic preparation needs. Many universities have well-established, intensive Summer Bridge programs. However, these programs are often high cost to run and reach a limited range of students. This project will explore a broad range of program formats, including in-person and online; short-duration and long-duration; community-based and independent; and review-oriented and acceleration-oriented. For all of these programs, we will be particularly focused on connecting the summer with the first semester college experience. We anticipate that the findings from our studies will be informative to other institutions looking to identify successful, scalable models for pre-matriculation summer programming and strengthening connections between summer and first-year academic experiences.University of California, Merced proposes the implementation of a comprehensive STEM early-start summer program for pre-matriculated incoming students. This program is designed to help historically underrepresented students make a successful academic and social transition to their STEM major and to improve the shares of students who are underrepresented minorities, first-generation and Pell-eligible STEM students who persist in their STEM major. In particular, the STEM Summer Start Program would be focused on three goals:1. Provide a suite of high-quality pre-matriculation summer educational experiences that are accessible to every student and meet the full range of incoming student academic preparation needs; 2. Create a cohesive, connected experience between the Summer Start programs and the Fall semester entry-level STEM courses that supports student development of sense of belonging, self-efficacy and resilience, in addition to academic content and study skills and;3. Study the impacts of various pedagogical devices and early-start programmatic activities on student success, including academic success in entry-level STEM courses, retention in STEM majors, time-to-degree and selected psycho-social metrics. 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.