Youth Engineering Solutions: Engineering Opportunities in Out-of-School Programs for English Learners

青年工程解决方案：为英语学习者提供校外项目的工程机会

• 批准号: 2344799
• 负责人: Christine Cunningham
• 金额: $ 69.8万
• 依托单位: Museum of Science
• 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: 2023-09-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2344799&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Youth; Engineering; Solutions; Opportunities; Out

Millions of youth participate in out-of-school (OS) programs each year. Hispanic and Black youth participate at twice the rate of Caucasian youth in OS programs, making OS programs promising venues for addressing inequities in STEM. Although a majority of programs offer STEM experiences, less than a third of OS STEM programming includes engineering. High-quality curricular materials can support the introduction of engineering into these environments. However, such resources need to be carefully designed to provide learning opportunities that ensure all youth can participate, contribute, and benefit. One of the most rapidly growing populations in the U.S. at the elementary level are English learners (ELs). These youth face the challenge of simultaneously learning English and academic content, such as engineering. Few, if any, engineering curricula exist for OS settings that include scaffolds for ELs and their educators. The Youth Engineering Solutions: Engineering Opportunities in Out-of-School Programs for English Learners (YES-OS) project will refine a set of equity-oriented design principles for OS engineering that are informed by strategies for ELs. It will work closely with OS educators and stakeholders to develop and study two OS engineering curricular units for youth ages 9–12. Units will feature socially engaged, real-world design challenges, engage youth in engineering practices, and provide language scaffolds. The educative materials will include youth, educator, and family-facing resources and will be designed to scale nationwide. Research will study how curricula can provide opportunities for ELs and support educators. YES-OS’s principles, resources, and research will inform asset-based models that build on youth’s experience to create more equitable educational opportunities and thus broaden participation in engineering.YES-OS will investigate ways that equity-oriented OS engineering curricula provide opportunities for ELs to learn knowledge, discourses, and practices; bring their cultures, experiences, and ideas to the engineering projects; expand their repertoire of identities and interests; and enhance membership in the learning community. The project will: (1) refine, apply, study, and modify a set of equity-oriented design principles for OS engineering curricula that are informed by strategies for ELs, (2) develop, test, and revise two OS engineering units for youth in ages 9–12 that instantiate the principles using design-based research, (3) begin to examine affordances of engineering for ELs in OS programming. This will include investigating how the engineering units engage youth in disciplinary knowledge and practices, scaffold social and academic discourses, increase interest in STEM, and foster a community that supports participation and identity development, and (4) explore how equity-based engineering curricula can support OS educators as they build their knowledge of and confidence with engineering, engineering practices, and ELs and create asset-based engineering programming. YES-OS will use design-based research to systematically design curriculum while simultaneously researching the efficacy of the curriculum design and the learning environments they foster. Thirty OS educators nationwide will work with developers to test frameworks and materials. Data including educator feedback, youth work, surveys, lesson observations and video, and focus groups will be analyzed using multiple qualitative and quantitative methods. Resources and findings will be disseminated to educators, stakeholders, the public, and researchers through websites, conferences, webinars, newsletters, research articles, and social media.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.

每年有数百万年轻人参加校外（OS）计划。西班牙裔和黑人青年的参与度是高加索青年在OS计划中的两倍，使OS计划承诺为解决STEM不平等的场所解决。尽管大多数程序都提供STEM体验，但不到三分之一的OS STEM编程包括工程。高质量的课程材料可以支持将工程引入这些环境。但是，需要仔细设计这些资源，以提供学习机会，以确保所有年轻人都能参与，贡献和受益。英国学习者（ELS）是美国在美国增长最快的人群之一。这些年轻人面临简单学习英语和学术内容（例如工程学）的挑战。很少有（如果有的话）为操作系统设置提供工程课程，其中包括ELS及其教育者的脚手架。青年工程解决方案：为英语学习者（YES-OS）项目的校外课程中的工程机会将完善一组面向股权的OS工程设计原理，这些设计原理由ELS的策略提供了信息。它将与OS教育者和利益相关者紧密合作，以开发和研究9-12岁青年的两个OS工程课程单元。单位将采用社会参与，现实世界的设计挑战，使青年参与工程实践，并提供语言脚手架。教育材料将包括青年，教育者和面向家庭的资源，并将旨在在全国范围内扩展。研究将研究课程如何为EL提供机会并为教育者提供支持。 YES-OS的原则，资源和研究将为基于资产的模型提供依据，这些模型以青年的经验为基础，以创造更公平的教育机会，从而扩大参与工程的参与。YES-OS将调查以股票为导向的OS OS工程课程为EL提供知识，论述，话语和实践的机会；将他们的文化，经验和思想带入工程项目；扩大他们对身份和利益的曲目；并增强学习社区的成员资格。该项目将：（1）完善，应用，研究和修改OS工程课程的一组面向股权的设计原理，这些设计原理是由ELS策略为ELS提供的，（2）开发，测试和修订两个OS工程单位，用于9-12年龄段9-12岁的年轻人，该单位使用设计基于设计的研究，（3）开始使用ELENGERSERION的OSS计划来实施原理，以实施原理。 This will include investigating how the engineering units engage youth in disciplinary knowledge and practices, scaffold social and academic discourses, increase interest in STEM, and foster a community that supports participation and identity development, and (4) explore how Equity-based engineering curricula can support OS educators as they build their knowledge of and confidence with engineering, engineering practices, and ELs and create asset-based engineering programming. YES-OS将使用基于设计的研究系统设计课程，同时研究课程设计的效率及其培养的学习环境。全国30名OS教育工作者将与开发人员合作测试框架和材料。包括教育家的反馈，青年工作，调查，课程观察和视频以及焦点小组在内的数据将使用多种定性和定量方法进行分析。资源和发现将通过网站，会议，网络研讨会，新闻通讯，研究文章和社交媒体传播给教育工作者，利益相关者，公众和研究人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持。

项目成果

Socially Engaged Engineering: A Framework for K-8 Education

社会参与工程：K-8 教育框架

• DOI: 10.7771/2157-9288.1407
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER
• 作者: Cunningham, Christine M.;Kelly, Gregory J;Mohan, Ashwin
• 通讯作者: Mohan, Ashwin