"Making" STEM Relevant in Underserved Communities

“让”STEM 与服务欠缺的社区相关

• 批准号: 1423612
• 负责人: Edward Price
• 金额: $ 29.67万
• 依托单位: California State University San Marcos Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1423612&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Making; STEM; Relevant; Underserved; Communities

Many communities across the country are developing "maker spaces," environments that combine physical fabrication equipment, social communities of people working together, and educational activities for learning how to design and create objects. Increasingly, maker spaces and maker technologies are being designed to provide extended learning opportunities for school-aged young people. Unfortunately, few youth from under-represented populations have had the opportunity to participate in these maker spaces, and many communities do not have the resources to establish facilities dedicated to making activities. This project, a collaboration of faculty at California State University, San Marcos and San Diego County Office of Education, the Vista Unified School District, and the San Diego Fab Lab, is a feasibility study that will work to address these needs by implementing and evaluating a pilot Mobile Making program in an underserved youth population. It will bring Making to four after-school programs in underserved communities in San Diego by using a van to take both equipment and undergraduate student mentors to program sites. At these sites, between 50% and 90% of the students are Hispanic or Latino and between 40% and 90% are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. The project employs a research-based approach to the design and implementation of the Mobile Making program, coupled with an evidenced-based plan for developing a model for future dissemination. Project objectives are: increasing the participants' interest, self-efficacy, and perception of the relevance of Making/STEM in everyday life; identifying and overcoming challenges associated with a Mobile Making program; developing a model for implementing and assessing Mobile Making in underserved communities; and disseminating materials and guides for practitioners. Development will be guided by five research-based principles for design of out-of-school time programs in underserved communities: access to resources; ethnically diverse near-peer leaders; authentic activities; legitimacy within the community; and ongoing input from participants. To inform program development and implementation, including continuous monitoring and adjustment throughout the two-year initiative, the evaluation component will use a mixed methods approach to study outcomes with respect to the students, their parents and the undergraduate mentors. Future work will apply the lessons learned in the project to guide implementations and study the model's applicability in other informal education settings. The dissemination plan will include publication of project findings, activities, practitioner's guides, and the model for implementing making programs in underserved communities.

全国许多社区都在开发“制造商空间”，结合物理制造设备，工作人员的社会社区以及学习如何设计和创建对象的教育活动的环境。制造商空间和制造商技术越来越多地为学龄性的年轻人提供扩展的学习机会。不幸的是，很少有人口不足的年轻人有机会参与这些制造商空间，而且许多社区没有资源来建立致力于开展活动的设施。 该项目是加利福尼亚州立大学，圣马科斯和圣地亚哥县教育办公室，Vista Unified学区和圣地亚哥Fab实验室的合作，是一项可行性研究，可以通过在服务乏味的青年人群中实施和评估一项试点移动制造计划来解决这些需求。 它将通过使用面包车将设备和本科生导师培训来编程网站，从而为圣地亚哥服务不足的社区提供四个课后计划。 在这些地点，50％至90％的学生是西班牙裔或拉丁裔，40％至90％的学生有资格免费或降低价格午餐。 该项目采用基于研究的方法来设计和实施移动制造计划的设计和实施，再加上基于证据的计划，以开发未来传播的模型。 项目目标是：增加参与者对日常生活中制作/茎相关性的兴趣，自我效能感和感知；确定与移动制作计划相关的挑战并克服挑战；开发一个用于在服务不足的社区中实施和评估移动制造的模型；并为从业者传播材料和指南。 开发将以五种基于研究的原则为指导，用于设计不足社区的校外时间计划：获得资源；种族多元化的近人领导人；真实的活动；社区内的合法性；以及参与者的持续投入。 为了为计划开发和实施提供信息，包括在整个两年的计划中进行连续监控和调整，评估部分将使用混合的方法方法来研究有关学生，父母和本科导师的结果。 未来的工作将应用项目中所学的经验教训，以指导实施并研究该模型在其他非正式教育环境中的适用性。 传播计划将包括发布项目发现，活动，从业者的指南以及在服务不足社区实施计划的模型。