WTG: Diffusion of Research on Supporting Mathematics Achievement for Youth with Disabilities through Twitter Translational Visual Abstracts

WTG：通过 Twitter 翻译视觉摘要传播支持残疾青少年数学成就的研究

• 批准号: 2244734
• 负责人: Jessica Rodrigues
• 金额: $ 31.18万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WTG; Diffusion; Research; Supporting; Mathematics

All students have the potential for mathematics success and deserve access to high-quality mathematics instruction. Yet students with disabilities tend to have lower mathematics achievement than peers without disabilities and are vastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States. Furthermore, the gap between research and practice means that mathematics strategies that could benefit students with disabilities are not consistently reaching the classroom. Such barriers to mathematics learning may limit students’ career opportunities and deprive society of an inclusive STEM workforce. This project seeks to develop effective strategies for sharing mathematics-focused research with a teacher audience, which may help to reduce inequality in mathematics and STEM outcomes for youth with disabilities. The project will explore (a) current and innovative strategies for communicating research focused on supporting mathematics learning for students with disabilities and (b) the diffusion of research via social media (i.e., Twitter) to a teacher audience. The project supports a diverse STEM workforce through its research activities and by providing funded, STEM-related research experiences to undergraduate students with disabilities who continue to be underrepresented in STEM occupations. The research plan involves a robust intervention mixed methods design. Phase 1 entails analysis of practitioner journals using Altmetrics and qualitative content analyses to describe whether, how, and by whom mathematics-focused articles for supporting students with disabilities have been shared on Twitter in recent years. Phase 2 leverages a partnership with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). A randomized controlled trial will compare diffusion of 90 articles focused on mathematics learning for youth with disabilities (a) without CEC Twitter promotion, (b) with text-based CEC Twitter promotion, and (c) with innovative CEC Twitter promotion using translational visual abstracts (TVAs; concise, infographic-type overviews of practitioner journal articles). Project findings will inform the development of guidelines for both the design and sharing of TVAs—which will be shared via training webinars and other accessible materials—to empower researchers, journals, and professional organizations with novel approaches for improving research communication efforts and mitigating the persistent research-practice gap.The project is is co-funded by the Science of Science: Discovery, Communications, and Impact program and the EDU Core Research programs.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.

所有学生都有可能取得数学成功的潜力，并且应该获得高质量的数学指导。然而，与没有残疾的同伴相比，残疾学生的数学成就往往较低，并且在美国的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育方面的人数差不多。此外，研究和实践之间的差距意味着，可以使残疾学生受益的数学策略并非始终如一地进入课堂。这种数学学习的障碍可能会限制学生的职业机会，并剥夺社会包容性的STEM劳动力。该项目旨在制定有效的策略，以与教师受众共享以数学为中心的研究，这可能有助于减少残疾青年的数学和茎结果不平等。该项目将探讨（a）通信研究的当前和创新策略，这些策略着重于为残疾学生提供数学学习，以及（b）通过社交媒体（即Twitter）向教师听众进行研究的扩散。该项目通过其研究活动来支持潜水员的STEM劳动力，并通过为与STEM职业中不足的残疾学生提供资助的，与STEM相关的研究经验。研究计划涉及强大的干预混合方法设计。第1阶段需要使用Altmetrics和定性内容分析对实践期刊进行分析，以描述近年来在Twitter上在Twitter上分享了以数学为重点的文章，以支持残疾学生。第2阶段利用与特殊儿童理事会（CEC）建立合作伙伴关系。一项随机对照试验将将90篇文章的扩散与残疾年轻人的数学学习（a）（无CEC Twitter促销）以及基于文本的CEC Twitter促销以及（c）进行创新的CEC Twitter促进（c），使用翻译的视觉摘要（TVAS； Infise，InfiSe-infopricapraphyoprapp为本概述的练习杂志）。项目发现将为TVA的设计和共享指南的制定提供信息（通过培训网络研讨会和其他可访问的材料共享，以增强研究人员，期刊和专业组织的能力，并采用新颖的方法来改善研究沟通工作，并减轻持续的研究实践差距。法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。