Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success.

IF 4.6 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Merlis P Alvarez-Berrios, Gabriele Haynes
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Abstract

Although Hispanic population is growing rapidly, Latino students earn fewer STEM degrees than their peers. Therefore, it is mandatory to implement strategies that improve STEM retention and graduation rates for Hispanic students. There is little research about the ways in which multicampus collaborative CUREs combined with additional academic support, affect low-income, Hispanic students and none that focus solely on Puerto Rican students in STEM. Puerto Rico (PR) has a 99% Hispanic population; thus, it is imperative to include PR in education research literature. This study sought to examine the impacts of the Research for Improved Student Experiences (RISE) in STEM program at two campuses of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. The program included multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring using quasi-experimental design. Impact assessment included psychosocial metrics such as self-efficacy, science identity and sense of belonging in a pre/posttest design. These findings were triangulated with the differences between treatment and control for retention, pass rate, and course grades. The findings revealed statistically significant improvements on all metrics. This study's findings support multicampus collaborative CUREs, academic advising, and peer mentoring as useful and effective strategies for improving outcomes for low-income Hispanic students in Puerto Rico.

波多黎各学生在STEM中的崛起:促进学生成功的多校区合作CURE项目的发现。
尽管西班牙裔人口增长迅速,但拉丁裔学生获得的STEM学位比同龄人少。因此,必须实施提高西班牙裔学生STEM保留率和毕业率的策略。关于多计算机合作的CURE与额外的学术支持相结合对低收入西班牙裔学生的影响,几乎没有研究,也没有研究只关注STEM中的波多黎各学生。波多黎各有99%的西班牙裔人口;因此,将公共关系纳入教育研究文献势在必行。这项研究试图检验波多黎各美洲大学两个校区STEM项目中改善学生体验研究(RISE)的影响。该项目包括多计算机协作CURE、学术咨询和使用准实验设计的同伴辅导。影响评估包括心理社会指标,如自我效能、科学认同和测试前/测试后设计中的归属感。这些发现与治疗和对照在保留率、通过率和课程成绩方面的差异进行了三角测量。研究结果显示,在所有指标上都有统计学上的显著改善。这项研究的发现支持多计算机合作的CURE、学术咨询和同伴辅导,将其作为改善波多黎各低收入西班牙裔学生成绩的有用和有效的策略。
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Cbe-Life Sciences Education
Cbe-Life Sciences Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-
CiteScore
6.50
自引率
13.50%
发文量
100
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE), a free, online quarterly journal, is published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The journal was launched in spring 2002 as Cell Biology Education—A Journal of Life Science Education. The ASCB changed the name of the journal in spring 2006 to better reflect the breadth of its readership and the scope of its submissions. LSE publishes peer-reviewed articles on life science education at the K–12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The ASCB believes that learning in biology encompasses diverse fields, including math, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, and the interdisciplinary intersections of biology with these fields. Within biology, LSE focuses on how students are introduced to the study of life sciences, as well as approaches in cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics.
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