ICT-SPACE: Developing ICT-STEM Career Interest, Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Middle School Students through Serious Games

ICT-SPACE：通过严肃的游戏培养中学生的ICT-STEM职业兴趣、参与度和自我效能感

• 批准号: 1031488
• 负责人: Jamie Kirkley
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: WisdomTools Enterprises Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1031488&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ICT; SPACE; Developing; STEM; Career

Wisdom Tools (WT), in partnership with the Indiana STEM Resource Network (I-STEM), will design, develop, and test ICT-SPACE (ICT-STEM Professions And Careers Exploration), a game-based career exploration environment for 7th and 8th grade students. The primary deliverable for this ITEST Strategies project is a suite of six online mini-games that will allow students to "try on" five ICT-STEM professions, and then work collaboratively to solve a capstone challenge mission requiring skills from each profession. The primary goal of this project is to encourage middle school students, particularly those from underrepresented populations, to pursue STEM careers, and specifically Information and Communication Technology (ICT) careers, by increasing their awareness, engagement, interest, knowledge of and self-efficacy related to ICT and STEM activities and careers.ICT-SPACE will be designed to be played at school, at home, and at other free-choice environments, thus providing multiple opportunities for continued career exploration at different times and locations. To support the games, Wisdom Tools will develop an online teachers' professional development program to assist with curriculum integration, lesson plans, standards alignment, technical issues, and strategies for extended learning.A second project goal is to use the affordances of video games to design ICT-SPACE in a way that will attract underrepresented populations (females, ethnic/racial minorities, rural and urban economically disadvantaged populations) to ICT-STEM fields. The games will incorporate research-based serious game features that will appeal to under-represented populations, such as diverse non-player characters; the ability to choose diverse attributes for one's avatar; a variety of mission objectives; different reward structures; and different task types. This project will strengthen the ITEST Strategies portfolio by contributing to our understanding of how to design a game-based career exploration environment to engage and interest middle school students, and underrepresented groups in particular, in ICT-STEM activities, coursework and careers.

Wisdom Tools（WT）与印第安纳州STEM资源网络（I-STEM）合作，将设计、开发和测试ICT-SPACE（ICT-STEM学习和职业探索），这是一个面向7年级和8年级学生的基于游戏的职业探索环境。 这个ITEST战略项目的主要成果是一套六个在线小游戏，让学生“尝试”五个ICT-STEM专业，然后协同工作，解决一个需要每个专业技能的顶点挑战使命。 该项目的主要目标是鼓励中学生，特别是那些来自代表性不足的人群的中学生，通过提高他们对信息和通信技术以及STEM活动和职业的认识、参与、兴趣、知识和自我效能，从事STEM职业，特别是信息和通信技术（ICT）职业。以及在其他自由选择的环境中，从而为在不同时间和地点继续进行职业探索提供了多种机会。 为了支持这些游戏，Wisdom Tools将开发在线教师专业发展计划，以协助课程整合、课程计划、标准调整、技术问题和扩展学习策略。第二个项目目标是利用视频游戏的功能来设计ICT空间以吸引代表性不足的人群（女性、少数民族/种族、农村和城市经济弱势群体）向ICT-STEM领域提供培训。 这些游戏将结合以研究为基础的严肃游戏功能，这些功能将吸引代表性不足的人群，例如不同的非玩家角色;为自己的化身选择不同属性的能力;各种使命目标;不同的奖励结构;以及不同的任务类型。 该项目将通过促进我们对如何设计基于游戏的职业探索环境的理解来加强ITEST战略组合，以吸引和吸引中学生，特别是代表性不足的群体，参与ICT-STEM活动，课程和职业。