Empowering Children of Migratory/Seasonal Farmworkers with Gamification and Culturally-Responsive Engineering Design Instruction

通过游戏化和文化响应式工程设计指导，为流动/季节性农场工人的孩子提供帮助

• 批准号: 2225306
• 负责人: Dina Verdin
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225306&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Empowering; Children; Migratory; Seasonal; Farmworkers

The project aims to build the investigator’s capacity to conduct robust fundamental STEM education research by implementing a small-scale research project and a professional development plan. The research investigates how culturally responsive gamified activities impact STEM identity development and promote STEM pathways among students of migratory families. The project extends the efforts of the Migratory Student Summer Academy at Arizona State University that provides summer enrichment activities for this student population. The professional development plan aims to reinforce basic skill sets of qualitative data analysis and equity-centered approaches to qualitative research. The project could provide insight of migratory adolescents’ STEM trajectories and expand knowledge of how gamification elements with culturally responsive centered activities resonate with the targeted community.The investigator will implement a qualitative study using a critical agency framework to collect and analyze data from pre- and post- surveys, interviews, and tracking via an online platform. Participants will include three cohorts of 10 students. The research questions are (1) How do migratory students describe their home and community bodies of knowledge and their potential ability in STEM? (2) How does participating in the culturally responsive engineering design activity impact migratory students’ academic profiles? (3) How do migratory students describe themselves and their critical STEM agency after participating in the online activity? and (4) How are migratory students engaging with gamification elements and, specifically, the culturally responsive story line? The project could fill a void in the literature about students of migratory farm workers and bridge the equity gap by connecting engineering activities with migratory students’ lived experiences through a culturally responsive approach. The project is supported by the ECR: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (BCSER) program. BCSER is designed to build the capacity of investigators to conduct robust fundamental STEM education research that focuses on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.

该项目旨在通过实施小规模的研究项目和专业发展计划来建立研究者进行强大基础STEM教育研究的能力。该研究调查了文化响应迅速的游戏活动如何影响茎的身份发展，并促进迁徙家庭学生之间的STEM途径。该项目扩展了亚利桑那州立大学的移民学生暑期学院的努力，该学院为这一学生群体提供夏季丰富活动。专业发展计划旨在增强定性数据分析的基本技能和以公平性为中心的定性研究方法。该项目可以提供有关迁徙青少年的STEM轨迹的见解，并扩展了解具有文化响应式的以文化响应的为中心活动的游戏化元素如何引起目标社区的共鸣。研究人员将使用关键的机构框架实施一项定性研究，以收集和分析通过在线平台和通过在线平台进行调查，访谈和跟踪的数据。参与者将包括10名学生的三个队列。研究问题是（1）移民学生如何描述他们的家庭和社区知识领域及其潜在的STEM能力？ （2）参与文化响应式工程设计活动如何影响迁移学生的学术资料？ （3）参与在线活动后，迁徙学生如何描述自己和关键的STEM代理？ （4）移民学生如何参与游戏化元素，特别是文化响应式的故事情节？该项目可能会在文献中填补有关迁徙农场工人的学生的空白，并通过通过文化响应的方法将工程活动与迁徙学生的现场经验联系起来来弥合股权差距。该项目得到了ECR：STEM教育研究（BCSER）计划的建筑能力的支持。 BCSER旨在建立研究人员进行强大的基本STEM教育研究的能力，该研究的重点是STEM学习和学习环境，扩大参与STEM和STEM劳动力发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得的支持。