Exploring Longitudinal Research on Out-of-school Time Experiences in STEM

探索 STEM 校外时间体验的纵向研究

• 批准号: 1451275
• 负责人: Robert Tai
• 金额: $ 11.41万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 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: 2014-11-15 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Longitudinal; Research; Out; Time

As part of NSF's Advancing Informal STEM Learning program, Science Learning+ (SL+) is a partnership among US and UK foundations. SL+ makes grant awards that take transformational steps to inform, improve, and advance the knowledge bases, practices, and design of informal STEM learning experiences and environments. The long-term SL+ goals are to broaden participation in STEM and to better understand, strengthen and coordinate STEM engagement and lifelong learning. This is a Science Learning+ planning project that will develop a plan for how to conduct a longitudinal study using existing data sources that can link participation in science-focused programming in out-of-school settings with long-range outcomes. The data for this project will ultimately come from "mining" existing data sets routinely collected by out-of-school programs in both the US and UK. 4H is the initial out-of-school provider that will participate in the project, but the project will ideally expand to include other youth-based programs, such as Girls Inc. and YMCA. During the planning grant period, the project will develop a plan for a longitudinal research study by examining informal science-related factors and outcomes including: (a) range of educational outcomes, (b) diversity and structure of learning activities, (c) links to formal education experiences and achievement measures, and (d) structure of existing informal science program data collection infrastructure. The planning period will not involve actual mining of existing data sets, but will explore the logistics regarding data collection across different informal science program, including potential metadata sets and instruments that will: (a) identify and examine data collection challenges, (b) explore the implementation of a common data management system, (c) identify informal science programs that are potential candidates for this study, (d) compare and contrast data available from the different programs and groups, and (e) optimize database management.

作为NSF前进的非正式STEM学习计划的一部分，科学学习+（SL+）是美国和英国基金会之间的合作伙伴关系。 SL+颁发了授予奖励，以采取变革性步骤，以告知，改善和推进非正式STEM学习经验和环境的知识库，实践和设计。 长期的SL+目标是扩大对STEM的参与，并更好地理解，加强和协调STEM参与度和终身学习。 这是一个科学学习+计划项目，它将制定一个计划，以使用现有的数据源进行纵向研究，该数据源可以将参与以科学为中心的节目参与与远程成果相关联。 该项目的数据最终将来自美国和英国校外计划通常收集的“采矿”现有数据集。 4H是将参与该项目的最初校外提供商，但是该项目理想地扩展到包括其他基于青年的计划，例如Girls Inc.和YMCA。在计划赠款期间，该项目将通过检查非正式的与科学相关的因素和结果制定一项纵向研究的计划，包括：（a）教育成果范围，（b）学习活动的多样性和结构，（c）与正式的教育经验和成就措施以及（d）现有信息科学计划数据收集基础架构的结构。 The planning period will not involve actual mining of existing data sets, but will explore the logistics regarding data collection across different informal science program, including potential metadata sets and instruments that will: (a) identify and examine data collection challenges, (b) explore the implementation of a common data management system, (c) identify informal science programs that are potential candidates for this study, (d) compare and contrast data available from the different programs and groups, and (e) optimize database 管理。