Full-Scale Development: Science STARS-Nurturing Urban Girls' Identities Through Inquiry-Based Science

全面发展：科学之星——通过探究性科学培育城市女孩的身份

• 批准号: 1114481
• 负责人: April Luehmann
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114481&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Full; Scale; Development; Science; STARS

Science STARS (Stars Tackling Authentic & Relevant Science) is an after-school program that will engage approximately 400 urban middle school girls in authentic inquiry-based scientific investigations and the creation of a science documentary that extends their research and situates their findings. The project has been piloted in Rochester, NY and will be expanded to sites in Lansing, MI and Seattle, WA. New elements have been added to enhance the project experience including the documentary video component, partnerships with local community outreach organizations, mentoring by local female scientists, leveraging embedded assessments to enhance the measurement of learning, and a conference and presentations to local stakeholders to showcase the work of the participants. Participants will meet during the school year plus three intensive weeks during the summer for a total of about 65 hours per year. A unique feature of this project is the use of pre-service teachers from local teacher preparation programs to facilitate the investigations. This in turn develops the capacity of pre-service teachers to implement and leverage inquiry-based learning in their practice. Project-level research will address questions of how models such as this encourage the development of positive science identities in girls and how situating science investigations in their community affects their understanding of science and local issues. The project evaluation will be conducted by Horizon Research and will focus on the quality of project activities, the quality of the project's research plan, and the impact on participants and pre-service teachers.Science STARS thoughtfully bridges formal and informal learning environments. While Science STARS largely situates its home base in schools in order to increase access to those who may not self-identify with science, the program is designed to capitalize on the unique affordances of informal settings and contribute to understanding how informal science education can be used to nurture positive science identities for urban middle school girls.

科学之星（Stars Tackling Authentic Relevant Science）是一项课后项目，将邀请大约400名城市中学女生参与真实的基于探究的科学调查，并制作一部科学纪录片，扩展她们的研究并阐述她们的发现。该项目已在纽约州罗切斯特进行试点，并将扩展到密歇根州兰辛和华盛顿州西雅图的研究中心。增加了新的内容，以加强项目经验，包括纪录片录像部分、与当地社区外联组织的伙伴关系、当地女科学家的指导、利用嵌入式评估加强对学习的衡量，以及向当地利益攸关方举行会议和介绍，以展示参与者的工作。参与者将在学年期间举行会议，加上夏季的三个密集周，每年总共约65小时。该项目的一个独特之处是利用当地教师培训计划中的职前教师来促进调查。这反过来又发展了职前教师在实践中实施和利用探究式学习的能力。项目层面的研究将解决这样的模型如何鼓励女孩积极的科学身份的发展，以及如何在他们的社区科学调查的位置影响他们对科学和当地问题的理解的问题。项目评估将由Horizon Research进行，重点关注项目活动的质量、项目研究计划的质量以及对参与者和职前教师的影响。科学之星系统将为正式和非正式的学习环境搭建桥梁。 虽然科学之星在很大程度上位于其基地在学校，以增加对那些谁可能不自我认同与科学的访问，该计划的目的是利用非正式环境的独特的启示，并有助于了解如何非正式的科学教育可以用来培养积极的科学身份的城市中学女生。