NSF INCLUDES DDLP: Leadership and iSTEAM for Females in Elementary school (LiFE): An Integrated Approach to Increase the Number of Women Pursuing Careers in STEM

NSF 包括 DDLP：针对小学女性的领导力和 iSTEAM (LiFE)：增加从事 STEM 职业的女性人数的综合方法

• 批准号: 1744490
• 负责人: Bruce Bukiet
• 金额: $ 29.95万
• 依托单位: New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; DDLP; Leadership; iSTEAM

The LiFE Project, an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot, will investigate and design a collaborative effort to counter the stereotypical expectation that boys are "naturally" better at science and math which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, silently shaping the girls'own perceptions of their ability. LiFE collaborators will address this problem at its source: the early learning experiences of elementary school girls. The elementary-middle school period is critical because by 8th grade, many girls have left the STEM pathway forever. The key to reversing the trend is finding effective ways to showcase STEM as a collaborative, people-rich space in which girls can participate together, be themselves, and engage in exploration. Research indicates that girls prefer collaborative activities that can make a difference in the world. Partnering with a coalition of economically and racially diverse New Jersey elementary schools, LiFE will employ "iSTEAM" learning strategies that encourage girls to apply the tools of various disciplines to investigate and solve real-world problems in an open environment of innovation, collaboration, and communication. This approach promises to be especially effective in engaging girls.LiFE will build on a successful Girls Science Club (GSC) model that introduces girls in grades 3-4 to hands-on iSTEAM exploration activities using Problem/Project-Based Learning strategies. Additional activities will leverage the expertise of the project's corporate/government partners (including Apple and USARMY) to build communication and leadership skills. LiFE will sustain the GSC's benefits by developing clubs for grades 5-6 involving enriched content and long-term independent projects. Eventually, a tiered peer network will link girls from elementary school through women college students and female STEM professionals--each tier mentoring the tiers below. This network will sustain a crucial "sense of community" to retain women in STEM. Within LiFE's social innovation framework approach, participating districts will tailor the GSC to their community while also working together toward shared common goals. LiFE will study the impact of GSCs on persistence of girls' interest in STEM into grade 7. Based on this research, LiFE will develop a cost-effective template that can be replicated across the US. LiFE will bring problem-based iSTEAM concepts to girls of all academic levels in their elementary schools years while, having a community focus with participant-developed projects in a non-competitive environment and leveraging the resources of academic, corporate and government partners to foster broader participation by women in STEM careers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

LiFE 项目是 NSF 的一项设计和开发启动试点项目，将调查和设计一项合作项目，以反驳男孩“天生”更擅长科学和数学的陈规定型期望，这将成为一个自我实现的预言，默默地塑造女孩自己的未来。对他们能力的看法。 LiFE 合作者将从根源上解决这个问题：小学女生的早期学习经历。小学至初中时期至关重要，因为到了八年级，许多女孩就永远离开了 STEM 道路。扭转这一趋势的关键是找到有效的方法，将 STEM 展示为一个协作的、人员丰富的空间，女孩可以在其中共同参与、做自己并进行探索。研究表明，女孩更喜欢能够改变世界的协作活动。 LiFE 将与经济和种族多元化的新泽西州小学联盟合作，采用“iSTEAM”学习策略，鼓励女孩在创新、协作和开放的环境中应用各种学科的工具来调查和解决现实世界的问题。沟通。这种方法有望在吸引女孩方面特别有效。LiFE 将建立在成功的女孩科学俱乐部 (GSC) 模式的基础上，该模式向 3-4 年级的女孩介绍使用基于问题/项目的学习策略的实践 iSTEAM 探索活动。其他活动将利用该项目的企业/政府合作伙伴（包括苹果公司和美国陆军）的专业知识来培养沟通和领导技能。 LiFE 将通过开发包含丰富内容和长期独立项目的 5-6 年级俱乐部来维持 GSC 的利益。最终，一个分层的同伴网络将把从小学生到女大学生和女性 STEM 专业人士联系起来——每一层都指导下面的层。该网络将维持至关重要的“社区意识”，以留住女性参与 STEM。 在 LiFE 的社会创新框架方法中，参与地区将根据其社区定制 GSC，同时共同努力实现共同目标。 LiFE 将研究 GSC 对女孩对 STEM 兴趣持续到 7 年级的影响。根据这项研究，LiFE 将开发一个可在美国各地复制的具有成本效益的模板。 LiFE 将把基于问题的 iSTEAM 概念带给小学阶段各个学术水平的女孩，同时在非竞争性环境中以社区为重点，关注参与者开发的项目，并利用学术、企业和政府合作伙伴的资源，培养更广泛的群体该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。