Families for STEM Success: Mentoring LatinX Parents to Mentor and Support their STEM Students

生物医学发现和公共卫生显然受益于多样化的生物医学劳动力。 拉丁裔父母在很大程度上是一个未开发的，潜在的强大，资源减少拉丁裔 学生逃离生物医学科学的职业道路。行为科学研究已经坚定地 确立了发展作为科学家的身份是一个强有力的持久性的预测， 科学研究的职业道路，但很少有人知道拉丁科学专业如何平衡他们的 科学和种族身份，以及父母的支持和指导如何促进身份认同 平衡长期的研究目标是了解平衡科学和种族的影响 从生物医学科学职业管道的磨损的身份，并测试的效用， 旨在促进身份平衡的干预措施。该研究采用了准- 实验，配对对照，纵向设计，以衡量干预措施的影响 计划与两个队列（2020-2021年和2021-2022年）的父母传入拉丁生物医学 理科专业具体目标是：（1）衡量讲习班对以下方面的直接影响： 拉丁裔父母对科学的知识和态度，科学学位的价值， 科学研究和拉丁遗产之间的兼容性。2)来衡量 父母对Latinx短期和长期学术坚持和成功的干预 生物医学专业的学生3)来衡量父母干预对学生的影响， 跨时间的科学身份，以及他们的科学和拉丁身份之间的平衡，以及4） 评估父母干预对儿童的短期和长期影响的程度， 学术成果是通过科学拉丁身份平衡介导的。早日 与家长的干预有可能改变学生的社会背景，以支持身份 平衡这个项目是重要的，因为它将提供一个理论驱动的严格的经验， 了解父母的教育和支持如何帮助Latinx生物医学科学学生 实现学术和平衡与新兴的科学身份强大的拉丁裔身份。 这种家长干预计划可以显着增加合格的拉丁裔人才库 在不到十年的时间里申请博士学位。

Biomedical discoveries and public health clearly benefit from a diverse biomedical workforce. Latinx parents are a largely untapped, and potentially powerful, resource for decreasing Latinx student flight from the biomedical science career path. Behavioral science research has firmly established that developing an identity as a scientist is a strong predictor of persistence on the scientific research career path, yet little is known about how Latinx science majors balance their scientific and ethnic identities and how parental support, and mentorship could foster identity balance. The long-term research goal is to understand the impact of balancing science and ethnic identities on attrition from the biomedical science career pipeline, and to test the utility of an intervention designed to foster identity balance. The proposed research employs a quasi- experimental, matched control, longitudinal design, to measure the impact of an intervention program with parents of two cohorts (2020-2021 and 2021-2022) incoming Latinx biomedical science majors. The specific aims are: 1) to measure the immediate impact of the workshop on LatinX parents’ knowledge of and attitudes about science, the value of a science degree, and the compatibility between scientific research and Latinx heritage. 2) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on the short and long-term academic persistence and success of Latinx biomedical science students. 3) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on students’ science identity across time, and the balance between their science and Latinx identities, and 4) to assess the degree to which the effects of the parental intervention on short and longer-term academic outcomes are mediated through scientific-Latinx identity balance. An early intervention with parents has the potential to alter students’ social context to support identity balance. This project is significant because it will provide a theory-driven rigorous empirical understanding how parental education and support can help Latinx biomedical science students achieve academically and balance a strong Latinx identity with an emerging science identity. This parent intervention programs could significantly increase the pool of qualified Latinx doctoral program applicants in less than a decade.