Engineering experiences: Research on student competency, motivation and persistence in STEM for underserved youth

工程经验：针对服务匮乏的青少年的 STEM 能力、动机和毅力研究

• 批准号: 1510922
• 负责人: Tamara Sumner
• 金额: $ 28.61万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1510922&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; experiences; Research; student; competency

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that develop students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by providing engineering experiences in atmospheric and related sciences to 112 middle school students. The collaborative project is dedicated to helping low-income youth achieve a brighter future through long-term, comprehensive educational enrichment activities. It will develop and study Engineering Experiences, in an out-of-school-time (OST) setting that combines project-based learning in STEM with engineering experiences and ongoing mentoring to prepare students for success in high school STEM courses and the future STEM workforce. The project builds on previously funded projects about nanotechnology experiences for high school students and adapts cyberlearning tools for Engineering Experiences. Middle school students will use engineering design principles on activities and projects involving wind power, aircraft design, atmospheric sensors, solar energy, and testing dropsonde models in a wind tunnel as part of an afterschool program.Guided by the US Department of Education's out-of-school-time framework, the project will use survey, interview, and classroom observation data to capture the degree and under what conditions the interplay of individual and social processes contributes to knowledge construction that leads to student competency, motivation, and persistence in STEM. If data show that certain types of engineering experiences do positively influence low socioeconomic status (SES) and underserved students? competency, motivation, and persistence in STEM, then outcomes will be disseminated to other communities to help increase opportunities for more low SES students to engage in project-based engineering experiences.

该项目将促进针对学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术经验的努力，以更好地理解和促进实践，从而发展学生的动机和能力，从而通过为112名中学生提供大气和相关科学的工程经验，从而从事科学，技术，工程或数学或数学（STEM）领域的职业。该协作项目致力于通过长期，全面的教育丰富活动来帮助低收入青年实现更光明的未来。它将在校外（OST）的设置中发展和研究工程经验，该设置将基于项目的STEM学习与工程经验和正在进行的指导相结合，以使学生在高中STEM课程和未来的STEM劳动力中为学生做好准备。该项目基于先前资助的有关高中生纳米技术经验的项目，并为工程体验改编网络学习工具。中学生将在涉及风能，飞机设计，大气传感器，太阳能和测试的活动和项目上使用工程设计原则，这是在风洞中的一部分。动力和持续存在。 如果数据表明某些类型的工程经验确实会对低社会经济地位（SES）和服务不足的学生产生积极影响？ STEM的能力，动力和持久性，然后将结果传播到其他社区，以帮助增加更多低SES学生从事基于项目的工程经验的机会。