BCSER - PVEST: A Dynamic Framework for Investigating STEM Interest, Attitude and Identity Among African American Middle School Students

BCSER - PVEST：调查非裔美国中学生 STEM 兴趣、态度和身份的动态框架

• 批准号: 2327055
• 负责人: John Fife
• 金额: $ 34.66万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 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: 2023-02-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BCSER; PVEST; Dynamic; Framework; Investigating

Interest in STEM is often shaped in middle school and understanding the STEM attitude and interest of African American middle school students would be significant in reducing barriers to STEM careers. Virginia State University aims to advance knowledge on the impacts of holistic contextual factors, such as race/ethnicity, school quality, family dynamics, gender, social supports, daily danger exposure, social status, and interpersonal competence, on STEM interest and attitudes. The project builds capacity through training and experience applying psychological theory to STEM education. Outcomes of the project aim to contribute to the development of validated interventions that increase STEM identity and resilience among students from underrepresented groups.This project aims to use the Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST) to investigate the role of risk contributors, stress engagement, and reactive coping styles on STEM interest. PVEST provides a holistic, culturally sensitive framework for understanding the development of competence under non-ideal circumstances. The primary research question investigates whether multiple contextual variables adequately predict STEM interest and attitudes among African American middle school students. The project aims to deploy a variety of assessments to examine cognitive-emotional regulation, perceptions of neighborhood risk and social supports, life experiences with racism, and attitudes toward STEM subjects. The project is supported through the EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) competition that is designed to build individuals’ capacity to carry out high-quality fundamental STEM education research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, 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.

对STEM的兴趣通常是在中学中形成的，并且了解非裔美国中学生的STEM态度和兴趣在减少STEM职业的障碍方面具有重要意义。弗吉尼亚州立大学旨在提高有关整体上下文因素的影响的知识，例如种族/民族，学校质量，家庭动态，性别，社会支持，日常危险曝光，社会地位和人际交往能力，对STEM的利益和参加。该项目通过将心理理论应用于STEM教育的经验来增强能力。该项目的成果旨在为开发验证的干预措施的发展做出贡献，这些干预措施增加了代表性不足的群体的学生之间的茎身份和韧性。该项目旨在利用生态系统理论（PVEST）的现象学变异，以研究风险贡献者，压力参与者，压力参与以及对STEM利益的反应性支配方式的作用。 PVEST提供了一个整体，具有文化敏感的框架，以理解在非理想情况下能力的发展。主要的研究问题调查了多个上下文变量是否充分预测了非裔美国中学学生的STEM兴趣并参加。该项目旨在部署各种评估，以检查认知情感调节，对邻里风险和社会支持的看法，种族主义的生活经历，并参加STEM受试者。通过EHR核心研究支持该项目：STEM教育研究（ECR：BCSER）竞争的建立能力，旨在建立个人在STEM学习和学习环境中进行高质量基本的STEM教育研究的能力，扩大STEM领域的参与以及STEM劳动力发展的范围，这反映了NSF的法定任务和审查的审查，这是通过评估的范围来进行的，这是通过评估的范围来弥补的。