SGER: The Effects of Severe Flooding on the Educational Development of Public School Students

SGER：严重洪水对公立学校学生教育发展的影响

• 批准号: 0847988
• 负责人: Kevin Leicht
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847988&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Effects; Severe; Flooding; Educational

Research on student educational performance and careers has a long and distinguished history in American social and behavioral science, but research on the social consequences of disasters and catastrophic risk have been far less frequent. The devastating floods in Eastern Iowa in June 2008 provide an opportunity to assess the effects of students' flood experiences on their subsequent educational development and careers. The investigators had previously been working under contract to the Cedar Rapids Community School District to develop a model of the changing geographical patterns of students attending its schools for the purpose of reorganizing their school attendance policies and areas served. When unexpected flooding from the Cedar River that was 11 feet (3.3 m) higher than in any previously recorded flood event in the area submerged some residences not even included in the 500-year flood maps for the city, tens of thousands of residents were displaced. Based on previously collected data, the investigators were able to determine that 1,834 students lived in neighborhoods that encountered flooding. This Small Grant for Exploratory Research will enable these investigators to conduct research that is grounded in social scientific theories of educational performance and disaster aftermath that focus on disrupted and reconstituted network ties as key components of successful recovery. The investigators will conduct a longitudinal survey of fourth-grade through eighth-grade grade student families in the flood zone (676 students from approximately 420 families) and track students and families who remain in the larger Cedar Rapids community and those who left it. Affected students will be paired with a control group of non-flood affected students of similar race and ethnicity, family income status, grade in school, and school attended in 2008-2009 in an attempt to assess the distinctive effects of flood victimization on family life and educational performance.This project will systematically assess the longitudinal effects of a natural disaster on the educational performance of youth using and integrating prevailing social scientific theories of educational development and community responses to disaster. Project results should permit comparisons to be made with research conducted in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the more limited research program of those who studied the aftermath of the 1997 flood in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The data from this project should allow the larger research community to engage in more sophisticated analyses of natural disaster impacts on youth and families, because flood-affected students and families will be systematically compared with similar control groups of students and families unaffected by the flood. Enhanced understanding of community and individual responses to disasters like the Cedar Rapids flood will be increasingly valuable for policy makers, planners, and other community leaders as they try to prepare for major catastrophes.

关于学生教育表现和职业生涯的研究在美国社会和行为科学中有着悠久而杰出的历史，但关于灾难和灾难风险的社会后果的研究却少之又少。2008年6月发生在爱荷华州东部的毁灭性洪灾为评估学生的洪灾经历对他们随后的教育发展和职业生涯的影响提供了一个机会。调查人员此前一直与锡达拉皮兹社区学区签订合同，以开发一个学生就读该学区不断变化的地域模式的模型，以便重新安排其入学政策和服务地区。来自雪松河的意外洪水比该地区之前记录的任何洪水事件都高出11英尺(3.3米)，淹没了一些甚至没有包括在该市500年洪水地图中的住宅，数万名居民流离失所。根据之前收集的数据，调查人员能够确定1834名学生生活在遭遇洪水的社区。这笔用于探索性研究的小额赠款将使这些研究人员能够开展以社会科学关于教育绩效和灾难后果的理论为基础的研究，这些理论侧重于将中断和重建的网络联系作为成功恢复的关键组成部分。调查人员将对洪泛区四年级至八年级的学生家庭(来自大约420个家庭的676名学生)进行纵向调查，并跟踪留在雪松急流社区和离开社区的学生和家庭。受灾学生将与一组未受水灾影响的学生配对，他们的种族和民族、家庭收入状况、在校年级和在2008-2009年间就读的学校相似，试图评估水灾对家庭生活和教育表现的独特影响。这项计划将利用和整合当前有关教育发展和社区应对灾害的社会科学理论，系统地评估自然灾害对青少年教育表现的纵向影响。项目结果应该可以与卡特里娜飓风过后在新奥尔良进行的研究以及那些研究1997年北达科他州大福克斯洪水后果的人进行的更有限的研究项目进行比较。该项目的数据将使更大的研究界能够对自然灾害对青年和家庭的影响进行更复杂的分析，因为受洪水影响的学生和家庭将被系统地与未受洪水影响的学生和家庭的类似对照组进行比较。对于政策制定者、规划者和其他社区领导人来说，加强对社区和个人对雪松急流洪水等灾害反应的了解将越来越有价值，因为他们正在努力为重大灾难做准备。