Collaborative Research: STEM Career Connections: A Model for Preparing Economically-Disadvantaged Rural Youth for the Future Workforce

合作研究：STEM 职业联系：为经济弱势的农村青年培养未来劳动力的模型

• 批准号: 1948709
• 负责人: Tamara Sumner
• 金额: $ 59.97万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; STEM; Career; Connections

This project will develop and study an innovative model to support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and career interests of rural, economically disadvantaged students. Students will work directly with STEM professionals and use science and engineering practices to investigate design challenges. The project will design a curriculum where youth use programmable sensor technologies for science and engineering investigations. The curriculum will be designed using a storyline technique whereby a coherent sequence of science investigations is driven by student questions. Storylines will also support student progress towards solving design challenges. This project is a collaborative effort involving scientists, practitioners, educational researchers, and instructional designers from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, University of Colorado Boulder, and Utah State University. The project team will work within an existing partnership in Eagle County, Colorado, consisting of a non-profit community foundation, YouthPower365, serving youth from economically disadvantaged families, the Eagle County Schools, and local Vail Valley businesses to collaboratively develop and study innovative out-of-school time (OST) learning experiences. This project will help prepare economically disadvantaged middle school youth to more fully participate in STEM and computing career pathways by engaging with sensor-integrated learning experiences around locally relevant design challenges in afterschool and summer programs. The research will examine how the project model can serve as a bridge between youth learning and career experiences, examining the degree to which youth are able to construct personally relevant connections. The team will use qualitative and quantitative research methods to answer three research questions. 1) What tools and practices enable a community partnership to support youth exploration of locally relevant STEM and computing pathways? 2) What learning experiences enable middle school youth to create personally relevant connections with STEM and computing careers? 3) To what extent does participating in STEM Career Connections stimulate disadvantaged youth interest and learning in STEM and computing careers? Research data to be collected include student interviews, surveys, and artifacts created by youth during OST activities. Changes in students' interests in STEM and computing careers will be determined through content analyses of participating students' Individual College and Career Plans (ICAP). Project evaluation will examine the degree to which projects goals are being met, partners are effectively engaging, and youth are making productive STEM and computing career connections.This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase middle school youth motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).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.

该项目将开发和研究一种创新的模型，以支持科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的知识和职业兴趣，属于经济弱势学生。学生将直接与STEM专业人员合作，并使用科学和工程实践来调查设计挑战。该项目将设计一个课程，青年将可编程传感器技术用于科学和工程研究。 该课程将使用故事情节技术设计，从而使科学调查的连贯序列由学生问题驱动。故事情节还将支持学生在解决设计挑战方面的进步。 该项目是一项合作努力，涉及科学家，教育研究人员和科罗拉多大学大气研究公司的教学设计师，科罗拉多大学博尔德大学和犹他州立大学。 该项目团队将在科罗拉多州伊格县的现有合作伙伴关系中工作，由非营利性社区基金会，青年能力365组成，为经济弱势群体的家庭，鹰县学校和当地的Vail Valley企业提供服务，以共同开发和研究创新的知识范围内的户外学习经验（OST）学习经验。该项目将有助于准备经济弱势的中学青年，通过参与传感器集成的学习经验，以围绕当地相关的设计挑战和夏季计划中的本地相关设计挑战，从而更加充分地参与STEM和计算职业道路。该研究将研究项目模型如何成为青年学习和职业经验之间的桥梁，从而研究青年能够建立个人相关联系的程度。 该团队将使用定性和定量研究方法来回答三个研究问题。 1）哪些工具和实践使社区合作伙伴关系可以支持对本地相关的STEM和计算途径的青年探索？ 2）哪些学习经验使中学青年能够与STEM和计算职业建立与个人相关的联系？ 3）参与STEM职业联系的程度在多大程度上刺激了在STEM和计算职业中的弱势青年兴趣和学习？ 要收集的研究数据包括学生在OST活动中创建的学生访谈，调查和工件。学生对STEM和计算职业的兴趣的变化将通过参与学生的个人大学和职业计划（ICAP）的内容分析来确定。 Project evaluation will examine the degree to which projects goals are being met, partners are effectively engaging, and youth are making productive STEM and computing career connections.This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase middle school youth motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，通过评估被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Co-designing a rural research practice partnership to design and support STEM pathways for rural youth

• DOI: 10.3776/tpre.2022.v12n2p45-70
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: Theory & Practice in Rural Education
• 作者: Srinjita Bhaduri;Quentin L. Biddy;C. Elliott;Jennifer Jacobs;Melissa Rummel;J. Ristvey;T. Sumner;Mimi Recker

3DnST: A Framework Towards Understanding Children's Interaction with Tinkercad and Enhancing Spatial Thinking Skills.

3DnST：了解儿童与 Tinkercad 互动并增强空间思维技能的框架。

• DOI: 10.1145/3459990.3460717
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: IDC 2021
• 作者: Bhaduri, S.

Local Mentors' Role in Rural STEM Pathways: Precarities and Possibilities.

当地导师在农村 STEM 路径中的作用：不稳定和可能性。

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: American Education Research Association
• 作者: Bhaduri, Srinjita;Hennessy Elliott, Colin;Biddy, Quentin
• 通讯作者: Biddy, Quentin

Co-designing Opportunities for Rural Middle School youth to Engage with STEM Careers and Career Pathways.

为农村中学生共同设计参与 STEM 职业和职业道路的机会。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: AERA International Conference 2022: Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century.
• 作者: Biddy, Q.;Bhaduri, S.;Bush, J.B.;Hennessy Elliott, C.;Recker, M.;Sumner, T.
• 通讯作者: Sumner, T.