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

描述（由申请人提供）：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来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项目通过提供学术支持、提高大学科学课堂的教学质量和影响、教授进入研究生课程所需步骤的发展研讨会，以及在学年和暑期期间参与研究的充足机会，包括研究方法的培训和参与教师指导的研究经验，实现了增加知识和技能的评估目标。在下一个周期中，RISE项目将继续所有这些成功的组成部分，为更多的科学课程扩展和制度化补充教学，为更多的大一和大二学生开发部分，使他们直接参与有趣的小组研究项目，以提高他们的兴趣和技能，使他们在大学期间更深入地参与研究。该计划将与新课程的开发人员合作，使年轻的学生能够进行研究，并与我们的学生一起定制和测试课程。RISE项目还将继续作为教学创新的试点项目，包括在基础科学课程中采用SCALE-UP和POGIL等方法。此外，还将继续向学生介绍暑期实习项目的重要学术网络（项目要求）和研究生院的成功，通过与纽约市的T- 32级研究机构合作，让学生定期了解这些机构是什么样的，研究生如何在其中发挥作用，最重要的是，如何充分利用这些机构中可以帮助他们实现目标的个人。此外，在这个新的周期中，该计划将增加一个重要和创新的组成部分：使用相关构念的心理评估信息，以更直接和更个性化的方式，解决URM学生的动机问题，并为那些有很高潜力进入研究生院的学生提供学业成功的动机障碍。这种方法采用早期的、以学生为导向的职业选择研究，将短期活动与长期的职业和生活目标联系起来。与个别学生密切合作，项目工作人员将指导学生制定明确的目标，子目标和相关任务，每学期将导致成功的职业生涯。这些“成功公式”文件将指导个别学生和项目团队的建议和规划。通过直接解决动机问题，以健全的心理学理论为框架，我们将提高学生的成绩和项目产出，为NIH MORE部门的目标服务，并增加URM学生和教师在生物医学和行为研究方面的数量。

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.