CAREER: Integrating Robotics and Socio-emotional Learning for Incarcerated Middle School Students

职业：将机器人技术与被监禁中学生的社会情感学习相结合

• 批准号: 2404954
• 负责人: Daniel Kelly
• 金额: $ 58.77万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2029-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2404954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrating; Robotics; Socio; emotional

Hundreds of thousands of youth in the United States are involved in the juvenile justice system. This project seeks to provide new choices to confined youth by developing and investigating a robotics learning activities within a juvenile justice alternative education program. In addition, teachers need to be prepared to work with youth who have been involved in the juvenile justice system, so the project also engages pre-service teachers in mentoring the youth participants. The robotics activities will include elements of socio-emotional learning that includes learning about responsible decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, and collaborating with other people. The curriculum will inspire these students to re-enter their education with an interest in pursuing STEM as a future career. Overall, the project will inform other efforts to design both robotics learning experiences and opportunities for pre-service teachers to develop their teaching practice.The goals of this project are to 1) develop a semester-long robotics program built on the principles of socio-emotional learning and deliver this program to middle school students in the juvenile justice system; 2) train undergraduate pre-service teachers to mentor middle school students in the juvenile justice system using socio-emotional learning in the instruction of robotics. The research will examine the relationship of participating in this socio-emotional learning robotics middle school program with the STEM-identity of participating students and compare the STEM-identity of participating students among three middle school populations, two of which are part of the juvenile justice system. The research questions about the semester-long program for integrating robotics and socio-emotional learning are as follows. How does the STEM-Identity of students involved in the juvenile justice system change? How do the career and educational interests of students who are involved in the juvenile justice system? How do the perceptions of students involved in the juvenile justice system with respect to the need for an education compare to a broader population of students following participation in this program? Is participation in the proposed program related to reduced rates of JJAEP students returning to the juvenile justice system as confined youth? Data gathered include surveys of students’ STEM career interests and attitudes, focus groups, and observation of their work on the robotics activities. The educational integration component of this CAREER project includes investigating how pre-service teachers change their perceptions of students in the juvenile justice alternative education program and how this mentoring experience influences their work as teachers.This CAREER project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.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.

美国成千上万的青年参与了少年司法系统。该项目旨在通过在少年司法替代教育计划中开发和调查机器人学习活动来提供新的选择来限制青年。此外，教师需要准备与参与青少年司法系统的年轻人一起工作，因此该项目还与职前教师一起吸引了青年参与者。机器人的活动将包括社会情感学习的要素，包括学习负责任的决策，自我意识，社会意识以及与他人合作。该课程将激发这些学生以追求STEM作为未来职业的兴趣重新进入教育。总体而言，该项目将为其他努力提供其他努力，以设计机器人的学习经验和服务前教师发展其教学实践的机会。该项目的目标是对1）建立一个基于社会情感学习原理的学期机器人计划，并将该计划交付给少年司法系统中的中学生； 2）在机器人技术的指导中，使用社会情感学习训练少年司法系统的精神中学生。该研究将研究参加这项社会情感学习机器人中学课程的关系，并具有参与学生的认同感，并比较了三个中学人群中参与学生的茎，其中两个是少年司法系统的一部分。关于整合机器人技术和社会情感学习的学期课程的研究问题如下。参与青少年司法系统的学生的茎状身份如何？参与青少年司法系统的学生的职业和教育利益如何？参与少年司法系统的学生对需要教育的看法与参加该计划后更广泛的学生相比，如何进行教育？参与拟议的计划是否与降低的JJAEP学生的比率降低，返回青少年司法系统的年轻人？收集的数据包括对学生的STEM职业兴趣和与会者，焦点小组的调查以及对机器人活动的工作的观察。 The educational integration component of this CAREER project includes investigating how pre-service teachers change their perceptions of students in the juvenile justice alternative education program and how this mentaling experience influences their work as teachers.This CAREER project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increase students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and数学（STEM）以及信息与通信技术（ICT）职业。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为是通过评估而被视为珍贵的。