Families for STEM success

行为科学研究已经坚定地确立了科学家的认同感是一种强有力的 预测科学研究职业道路上的坚持性，但人们对Latinx如何 理科专业的学生在他们的科学和种族认同以及父母的支持如何培养认同之间取得平衡 平衡。长期目标是了解平衡科学和种族认同对 从生物医学科学的职业管道中流失，并测试旨在 培养身份平衡。 建议的研究采用准实验、配对对照、纵向设计来测量 一项针对拉丁裔生物医学专业新生家长的干预计划的影响。这个 具体目标是：1)衡量研讨会对拉丁裔父母了解 以及对科学的态度，科学学位的价值，以及科学与科学之间的兼容性 研究和拉丁裔遗产。2)测量父母干预对儿童心理健康的影响。 拉丁裔生物医学专业学生学期学业坚持性与成功。3)衡量以下项目的影响 家长对学生科学认同的跨时间干预及其在科学认同中的平衡 和Latinx身份，以及4)评估父母干预对Short的影响的程度 长期的学术成果是通过科学-拉丁裔身份平衡来调节的。 生物医学的发现和公共健康显然受益于多样化的生物医学劳动力。Latinx 父母在很大程度上是一种尚未开发的、潜在的强大资源，可以减少拉丁裔学生的出走 来自生物医学科学的职业道路。本申请中提出的研究具有创新性，因为 平衡身份设计提供了一种新的理论方法来理解学生如何导航和 平衡多种身份，以保持作为科学研究人员的强烈身份。早期干预 与父母的关系有可能改变学生的社会背景，以支持身份平衡。这个项目是 意义重大，因为它将提供一种理论驱动的严格实证理解 教育和支持可以帮助Latinx生物医学学生在学业上取得成功，并平衡 强烈的拉丁裔身份和新兴的科学身份。这项家长干预计划可以 在不到十年的时间里，大幅增加合格的拉丁裔博士项目申请者人数。一个 更大的多样化和合格的博士生队伍有可能增加 到2040年生物医学科学劳动力。

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 could foster identity balance. The long-term 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 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. 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. The research proposed in this application is innovative because balanced identity design offers a new theoretical approach to understanding how students navigate and balance multiple identities to maintain a strong identity as a scientific researcher. 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. A larger pool of diverse and qualified doctoral students has the potential to increase the diversity of the biomedical science workforce by 2040.