DEAF STEM: Deaf Educational Access For Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

DEAF STEM：聋人科学、技术、工程和数学教育

• 批准号: 0533210
• 负责人: Robert Panoff
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Shodor Education Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533210&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DEAF; STEM; Deaf; Educational; Access

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. requests funding support in the amount of$292,590 for a research and development effort, Deaf Educational Access For Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (DEAF STEM). DEAF STEM will expandthe work of Project SUCCEED-HI (NSF #9906189) by adding American Sign Language(ASL) versions to the existing text of a wide variety of Shodor materials. A project goalis to improve access for all students to the National Science Digital Library (NSDL),including Shodor's extensive STEM materials, which have been developed throughprevious, and current NSF funding. In addition, DEAF STEM will provide a dynamicresource for educational interpreters and other providers to increase their competence andconfidence in interpreting and supporting education in STEM areas to deaf students.Intellectual Merit: DEAF STEM addresses the needs of both deaf students and theirteachers/educational interpreters. Deaf students are underrepresented in STEM fields inlarge part because of the documented low-grade reading level (3 rd 4 th grade) of theaverage deaf high school student and the minimal skill levels of most educationalinterpreters. DEAF STEM will address the teacher and student needs by expanding onthe work of SUCCEED-HI to provide bilingual versions of two of Shodor's awardwinning activities: Project Interactivate and the Computational Science EducationReference Desk (CSERD) which has been selected as one of the inaugural pathwayprojects of NSDL. Purely text-based approaches to STEM materials are insufficient toensure active access to STEM information by deaf students. Through focused research,DEAF STEM scientists will work with deaf educators and their students to perfect themodification and presentation of NSDL materials, while assessing a variety oftechnologies, including video and the use of avatars. This focused research includes thedevelopment of best practices for providing bilingual materials to our audience.Additional online tools for searching our growing collection of signed lessons willsupport educational interpreters. These tools will enable providers to locate correctexamples of STEM concepts communicated through ASL. The DEAF STEM team willinvite educational interpreters in the field to submit STEM passages that they need helpsigning. These passages will be signed and posted on a signing STEM forum. This willprovide an open-ended opportunity for interpreters to both improve their signing skillsand to provide support for the issues they face on a daily basis.Broader Impact: The impact of our DEAF STEM project will be felt on two fronts. Byproviding deaf students with signed assistance to read STEM text, the students' abilityand confidence in reading STEM materials will be improved. The bilingual presentationof the STEM materials in both English text and ASL video clips will provide anopportunity for language arts and STEM teachers to work together to improve their deafstudents' reading and English skills.By creating a web based DEAF STEM Forum, the entire deaf community will beencouraged to explore the signing of STEM concepts. By appealing to the deafcommunity's interest in promoting their language, DEAF STEM will widen the exposureof the deaf community to relevant STEM issues. As a deliverable under theNSDL/Pathway memorandum of understanding, Shodor will be sharing these bestpractices with other projects in NSDL to maximize impact and breadth of dissemination.

Shodor 教育基金会请求 292,590 美元的资金支持，用于“聋人科学、技术、工程和数学教育机会”(DEAF STEM) 的研究和开发工作。 DEAF STEM 将通过在各种 Shodor 材料的现有文本中添加美国手语 (ASL) 版本来扩展 SUCCEED-HI 项目 (NSF #9906189) 的工作。项目目标是改善所有学生对国家科学数字图书馆 (NSDL) 的访问，其中包括 Shodor 丰富的 STEM 材料，这些材料是通过以前和当前的 NSF 资助开发的。此外，DEAF STEM 将为教育口译员和其他提供者提供动态资源，以提高他们口译的能力和信心，并支持聋哑学生的 STEM 领域教育。智力优势：DEAF STEM 满足聋哑学生及其老师/教育口译员的需求。聋哑学生在 STEM 领域的代表性不足，很大程度上是因为据记录，一般聋哑高中生的阅读水平较低（三四年级），而大多数教育口译员的技能水平也很低。 DEAF STEM 将通过扩展 SUCCEED-HI 的工作来满足教师和学生的需求，为 Shodor 的两项获奖活动提供双语版本：Interactivate 项目和计算科学教育参考台 (CSERD)，后者已被选为 SUCCEED-HI 的首批衔接项目之一。 NSDL。纯粹基于文本的 STEM 材料方法不足以确保聋哑学生主动获取 STEM 信息。通过重点研究，DEAF STEM 科学家将与聋人教育工作者及其学生合作，完善 NSDL 材料的修改和演示，同时评估各种技术，包括视频和化身的使用。这项重点研究包括开发向观众提供双语材料的最佳实践。用于搜索我们不断增加的签名课程集合的其他在线工具将为教育口译员提供支持。这些工具将使提供商能够找到通过 ASL 传达的 STEM 概念的正确示例。 DEAF STEM 团队将邀请该领域的教育口译员提交需要帮助签名的 STEM 段落。这些段落将被签名并发布在签名 STEM 论坛上。这将为口译员提供一个开放式的机会，既可以提高他们的手语技能，又可以为他们每天面临的问题提供支持。 更广泛的影响：我们的 DEAF STEM 项目的影响将体现在两个方面。通过为聋哑学生提供手语阅读STEM文本的帮助，学生阅读STEM材料的能力和信心将会得到提高。以英文文本和 ASL 视频剪辑形式提供的 STEM 材料的双语演示将为语言艺术和 STEM 教师提供一个共同努力的机会，以提高聋哑学生的阅读和英语技能。通过创建基于网络的聋哑 STEM 论坛，整个聋哑社区将鼓励探索 STEM 概念的签署。通过激发聋人社区对推广其语言的兴趣，DEAF STEM 将扩大聋人社区对相关 STEM 问题的了解。作为 NSDL/Pathway 谅解备忘录下的一项交付成果，Shodor 将与 NSDL 中的其他项目分享这些最佳实践，以最大限度地提高影响力和传播广度。