RISE Option 2:Increasing URM Student Success in Science and Science Careers

描述(由申请者提供)：布鲁克林学院RISE项目旨在通过整合发展活动和研究经验的机会，扩大来自代表性不足群体的学生的机会，以增加学生从本科生状态进入生物医学和行为研究领域的研究生课程的知识、技能和动机。RISE计划已经实现了评估目标，即通过提供学术支持，提高大学科学课堂教学的质量和影响，举办发展性研讨会讲授进入研究生课程所需的步骤，以及在学年和暑期提供充足的参与研究的机会，包括研究方法培训和参与教职员工指导的研究经验，来增加知识和技能。在下一个周期，RISE计划将继续所有这些成功的组成部分，扩大和制度化更多科学课程的补充指导，为更多的一年级和二年级学生开发直接参与有趣的小组研究项目的组成部分，以提高他们的兴趣和技能，以便随着学生在大学期间的进步，更深入地参与研究。该计划将与新课程的开发者合作，为年轻学生进行研究提供装备，以便与我们的学生一起定制和测试课程。RISE计划还将继续作为教学创新的试点计划，包括在基础科学课程中扩大规模和POGIL等方法。此外，还将通过与纽约市的T-32级研究机构合作，向学生介绍暑期实习项目的重要学术网络(该项目要求)，并通过与纽约市的T-32级别研究机构合作，让学生定期了解这些机构是什么样子，研究生在其中是如何运作的，以及最重要的是，如何充分利用这些机构中能够帮助他们实现目标的个人，向学生介绍这些机构的重要学术网络。同样在这个新的周期中，该计划将增加一个重要的和创新的组成部分：利用相关结构的心理评估信息，更直接、更个性化地处理URM学生的动机问题，以及那些具有高潜力进入研究生院的学生取得学业成功的动机障碍。该方法利用学生对职业选择的早期研究，将短期活动与长期职业和人生目标联系起来。项目工作人员将与个别学生密切合作，指导学生在每个学期制定一套明确的目标、子目标和相关任务，以实现成功的职业生涯。这些“成功的公式”文件将为个别学生和课程中的群体提供建议和规划。通过直接解决激励问题，在健全的心理学理论框架下，我们将改善学生结果和项目收益，服务于NIH更多的部门目标，并增加URM在生物医学和行为研究方面的学生和教师数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Brooklyn College RISE program is designed to broaden the opportunities of students from under- represented groups through the integration of developmental activities and opportunities for research experiences to increase the knowledge, skills and motivation of students moving from undergraduate status into graduate programs in biomedical and behavioral research fields. The RISE program has achieved the evaluated goals of increasing knowledge and skills through provision of academic supports, improvements in the quality and impact of teaching in college science classrooms, developmental workshops that teach about the steps needed to enter graduate programs, and ample opportunities during the academic year and summers to be involved in research, including training in research methods and participation in faculty- mentored research experiences. In the next cycle, the RISE program will continue all these successful components, expanding and institutionalizing supplemental instruction for more science classes, developing components for more freshman and sophomores to become directly involved in interesting group research projects to increase their interest and skills for more intensive research involvement as students progress through college. The program will work with the developers of a new curriculum to equip younger students for research to customize and test the course with our students. The RISE program will also continue to serve as a pilot program for pedagogical innovation, including approaches such as SCALE-UP and POGIL in basic science classes. Also continuing will be components that introduce students to important academic networks for summer externship programs (required by the program) and graduate school success by partnering with T- 32 level research institutions in New York City to give students regular access to what such institutions are like, how graduate students function within them and most importantly, how to make good use of individuals in such institutions who can help them reach their goals. Also in this new cycle, the program will be adding a significant and innovative component: to work more directly and in a more individualized manner with issues of URM students' motivation and motivational barriers to academic success for those with high potential to achieve entry to graduate school, using information from psychological assessments of relevant constructs. The method employs early, student-directed research on career options to link short-term activities with longer-term career and life goals. Working intensively with individual students, program staff will coach students to develop explicit sets of goals, subgoals, and related tasks each semester that will lead to successful careers. These "Formula for Success" documents will guide advisement and programming for individual students and for cohorts in the program. By directly addressing motivational issues, framed by sound psychological theory, we will improve student outcomes and program yields in the service of NIH MORE Division goals and increase the numbers of URM students and faculty in biomedical and behavioral research.