Becoming a scientist: a study of identity balance and the persistence of hispanic undergraduate students in engineering and biological sciences
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- 2334638
- Recipient
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Claremont Graduate University UEI N34CXJCDNDU1
- Awarding agency
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Division of Human Resource Development
National Science Foundation
- Obligated
- $533,666
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 47.076 STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources)
- Completion date
- Originally
- Funding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Place of performance
- Claremont, CA 91711, USA
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Description
- Abstract
- Advancing a diverse and technically competent stem workforce is critical for contributing to the progress of science and to the health, prosperity and welfare of our nation. While the number of hispanic students, who are U.S. Citizens and permanent residents, earning stem bachelor's degrees has increased rapidly during the past decade, hispanic students enrolled in stem programs are leaving college or switching majors at higher rates than their white peers. This loss may be related to the stereotypes, lack of support, and the exclusionary spaces that hispanic students are exposed to in college. Research suggests that developing and maintaining a strong stem identity is an important predictor of persistence and success in stem disciplines. Understanding the complexity of hispanic students' identity, and the balance of that identity, in the context of social stereotypes, could lead to improved stem undergraduate academic, research and internship programs, which would advance persistence to bachelor's degree completion. The project team is exploring a framework that considers both implicitly and explicitly held identities for understanding how students achieve and maintain a strong stem identity across time, and what experiences facilitate or hinder this process. The researchers hypothesize that the strength and nature of the balance between implicitly held associations and identities influence student's explicitly held stem identity, and that these processes are qualitatively different due to prevailing stereotypes for white and hispanic undergraduate students, enrolled in engineering and biological sciences degree programs. The current investigation is also examining the identity trajectories of white and hispanic undergraduate students as they make critical career and academic decisions. Results from the research are advancing knowledge about balanced stem identity for historically underrepresented minorities. Findings inform university administrators and educators about how their institutions might make evidence-based modifications to undergraduate research, internship and academic programs that impact minority stem student retention and persistence to degree completion. This research is supported by NSF's EHR core research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental stem education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: stem learning and stem learning environments, broadening participation in stem, and stem workforce development. The program supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest intervention and innovations to address persistent challenges in stem interest, education, learning and participation. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.- subawards are not planned for this award.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
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| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $378,108 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Original award | $155,558 |
Quick answers
Who received award 2334638?
2334638 was awarded to Claremont Graduate University by Division of Human Resource Development (National Science Foundation) on July 1, 2023.
How much is award 2334638 worth?
$533,666 has been obligated on 2334638.
Which agency awarded 2334638?
Division of Human Resource Development (National Science Foundation) awarded 2334638, with funding from National Science Foundation.
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