Mother Goose Asks "Why?": Planning for Dissemination of the Parent Literature and Science Activity Program Through Libraries in Fourteen States: A Planning Grant

9710996安德森鹅妈妈问为什么？是佛蒙特州图书中心的一个项目，目前正在佛蒙特州带给1200名家长。该项目以模范儿童文学和科学活动为中心，为学龄前儿童的家长提供了一系列四个阅读/讨论/活动环节。通过探索“这是什么？”、“有几个？”和“你怎么知道？”等基本问题，父母获得了向3-7岁的孩子介绍科学的经验、技能和信心。佛蒙特州中心希望将这一计划扩展到另外12个州，哥伦比亚特区和美属维尔京群岛。然而，在启动这一扩展之前，该中心需要解决两个问题：1)如何制定适当的战略，在与佛蒙特州截然不同的地点接触、招募和留住家庭；2)如何制定评估战略，评估父母的行为和态度随着时间的推移发生的变化。为此，该中心将召集参与扩展地点的代表和家庭外展方面的专家，审查当地问题和差异，建立当地联系，并开始为这些地点制定有效的实施战略。他们还将与全国性的教育评估和研究组织Network，Inc.合作，为父母行为变化制定具体的衡量标准。

9710996 Anderson Mother Goose Asks Why? is a program of the Vermont Center for the Book currently being brought to 1200 parents in Vermont. Centered around exemplary children's literature and science activities, the program provides a series of four reading/discussion/activity sessions to parents of preschool children. Through exploration of basic questions such as "What Is It?", "How Many?", and "How Do You Know?", parents gain experience, skills, and confidence to introduce science to their 3-7 year old children. The Vermont Center hopes to expand this program to twelve additional states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Before initiating this expansion, however, the Center needs to address two issues: 1) how to create appropriate strategies for reaching, recruiting, and retaining families in locations that are quite different from Vermont, and 2) how to create an evaluation strategy that will assess parental behavior and attitudinal changes over time. Toward this end, the Center will gather representatives from the participating expansion sites and experts in family outreach to examine local issues and differences, to establish local contacts, and to begin development of effective implementation strategies for the sites. They also will work with The Network, Inc., a national education evaluation and research organization, to produce concrete measurements for parental behavior changes.