Investigating Family Support Interventions for Freshmen

ECR轨道二：调查新生的家庭支持干预措施（IFSIF） 总结 来自代表性不足和低社会经济地位（SES）背景的父母，如其他 父母们说，他们希望孩子的未来“最好”，高等教育是父母的一部分， 不管是什么样的愿望，不管是什么样的愿望。来自中等和高社会经济地位背景的父母通常有 “教育文化资本”来支持孩子的教育愿望，然而， 代表性不足和社会经济地位低的背景往往缺乏社会资本和对金融和 为促进接受高等教育提供的其他支助资源。有很强的证据基础 对中小学儿童家长的外联活动的有效性， 大学入学然而，很少有研究探讨家庭支持在促进学生 大学入学后的成功，以及哪些元素和资源对学生最有效的证据 尤其缺乏代表性不足的群体。 特拉华州州立大学（DSU）是一所历史上的黑人大学，超过70%的学生 是科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域代表性不足的群体的成员， 大约三分之一是第一代大学生，超过60%的人有资格获得佩尔赠款。我们的大多数学生 处于两个或两个以上的这些主要风险因素的交叉点，从生物医学职业管道退出。 我们的IFSIF计划将测试家庭支持干预的有效性，旨在帮助保留 学生在生物医学相关专业的学术管道，并激励他们继续到一个 博士课程。 我们的假设是，授权给学生的父母，或担任父母角色的家庭成员， 将帮助他们了解他们的大学生的学术和社会需求，检测学术，社会 或情感上的挑战，并帮助学生克服这些挑战之前，他们导致学术 失败或离开。 为了验证这一假设，我们将寻求让四组DSU新生的父母参与进来， 在为期一年的多组成部分的“家长大学”计划中，生物医学相关专业。程序 将包括支持，参与和知识建设活动，将提供给家长开始 从他们的学生承诺进入大学的时候，一直持续到夏天， 学年。这些活动旨在帮助家庭成员了解大学， 它的支持资源，他们的学生的学术课程和潜在的职业道路，以及他们的方式， 可以支持他们的学生并帮助他们取得成功。我们的研究将评估短期、中期和长期 结果测量与学生成功的验证标志一致，包括： 学位课程;参与指导研究;竞争力的证据过渡到 生物医学职业道路的下一阶段;高学术自我效能感和科学身份;感知 对大学有归属感;并有意从事生物医学事业。

ECR Track II: Investigating Family Support Interventions for Freshmen (IFSIF) Summary Parents from underrepresented and low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds, like other parents, report that they want “the best” for their children’s future, and higher education is part of parents’ aspirations, regardless of SES. Parents from middle- and high-SES backgrounds usually have the “educational cultural capital” to support their children’s educational aspirations, however, parents from underrepresented and low SES backgrounds often lack that social capital and awareness about financial and other support resources available to facilitate access to higher education. There is a strong evidentiary basis for the effectiveness of outreach to parents of children in primary and secondary school in supporting college access. However, few studies have examined the role of family support in facilitating student success after college entry, and evidence of which elements and resources are most effective for students from underrepresented groups is especially lacking. Delaware State University (DSU) is an Historically-Black university in which over 70% of students are members of groups underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), about a third are first generation college students, and over 60% qualify for Pell grants. Most of our students are at the intersection of two or more of these major risk factors for exit from the biomedical career pipeline. Our IFSIF program will test the effectiveness of a familial support intervention designed to help retain students in the academic pipeline in biomedical-related majors and motivate them to continue on to a doctoral program. Our hypothesis is that empowering students’ parents, or family members who fill parental roles, will help them understand the academic and social needs of their college students, detect academic, social or emotional challenges, and help students overcome those challenges before they lead to academic failure or departure. To test this hypothesis we will seek to engage the parents of four cohorts of DSU freshmen in biomedically-related majors in a year-long, multi-component “Parent University” program. The program will include support, engagement and knowledge-building activities that will be offered to parents starting from the time their students commit to enrolling in the university, and continuing into the summer following the academic year. The activities will be designed to help family members learn about the university and its support resources, their student’s academic program and potential career paths, as well as ways that they can support their students and help them succeed. Our study will assess short-, medium- and long-term outcome measures aligned with validated hallmarks of success for students including: persistence in their degree program; participation in mentored research; evidence of competitiveness for transitioning to the next phase in the biomedical career pathway; high academic self-efficacy and science identity; perceived sense of belonging in the university; and intent to pursue a biomedical career.