Fusion Science Theater National Training and Dissemination Program

融合科学剧场国家培训和传播计划

• 批准号: 1114568
• 负责人: Holly Kerby
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Madison Area Technical College
• 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 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114568&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fusion; Science; Theater; National; Training

The Fusion Science Theater National Training and Dissemination Program builds on the success of the Fusion Science Theater (FST) planning grant (DRL 07-32142). Madison Area Technical College, in collaboration with the Institute for Chemical Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the American Chemical Society (ACS) and area science centers and museums will create a national program to disseminate the FST model which directly engages children in playful, participatory, and inquiry-based science learning of chemistry and physics topics. The primary target audience is children aged 4-11, while undergraduate chemistry students, faculty, and formal and informal educators comprise the secondary professional audience. The project will result in the development of a robust, creative, and highly visible national dissemination program.The National Training and Dissemination Program includes three deliverables. First, a Distance Performance Training Program will be developed to teach groups of undergraduate students, faculty, and educators how to perform FST Science Investigation (SI) Shows. The Training Program includes a Performance Training Package and a 3-day Performance Training Workshop. The Performance Training Package will be comprised of training videos, performances videos, scripts, rehearsal schedules, and training exercises. These materials will be pilot tested while training representatives of five groups from around the country to perform SI Shows during the Performance Training Workshop at Madison Area Technical College in summer 2012. Participants will be selected from ACS undergraduate groups, outreach specialists, and museum professionals. Workshop participants then return to their home institutions and lead their groups through the improved Performance Training Package delivered via Moodle, with support from FST team members and social networking tools. The second deliverable is the FST Methods Workshop. The Methods Workshop is designed to teach formal and informal educators to use selected methods (Investigation Question, Embedded Assessment, and Act-It-Out) in their outreach efforts and classroom teaching. Four workshops will be presented at national meetings and at the invitation of colleges, universities, and science centers. Follow-up with workshop participants will be mediated through an online forum to encourage experimentation, modification, and dissemination of a second generation of FST activities. The final project deliverable is the development and implementation of a Promotion and Recruitment Plan to connect professional audiences with FST. The Distance Performance Training Program and workshops will be evaluated using mixed methods, while embedded assessment will be utilized to measure the impact on youth participants attending SI shows to determine the overall effectiveness the Distance Performance Training.This project is designed to have important impacts on STEM education and society. The proposed dissemination program brings innovative models and methods into the hands of informal science education practitioners who can use them to engage local audiences and enhance their own teaching and communication practices. Finally the project offers likely benefits for society through the creation and dissemination of innovative practices to combat science illiteracy, diminishing pools of scientists and engineers, lack of understanding about the nature of science, and the achievement gap that exacerbates these problems. This project could be transformative in informal science education as SI Shows use theater to engage audiences in multiple aspects of science learning. It is anticipated that this project will reach up to 2,500 individuals in public and professional audiences.

融合科学剧院国家培训和传播计划建立在融合科学剧院（FST）规划补助金（DRL 07-32142）的成功基础上。麦迪逊地区技术学院与威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校化学教育研究所、美国化学学会（ACS）和地区科学中心和博物馆合作，将制定一项国家计划，传播FST模式，该模式直接让儿童参与化学和物理主题的有趣、参与性和探究性科学学习。主要目标受众是4-11岁的儿童，而本科化学专业的学生，教师，正式和非正式的教育工作者包括次要的专业观众。该项目将导致制定一个强有力的、创造性的和高度可见的国家传播方案。首先，远程性能培训计划将开发教组本科生，教师和教育工作者如何执行FST科学调查（SI）显示。培训计划包括一个绩效培训包和一个为期3天的绩效培训工作坊。表演培训包将包括培训视频、表演视频、脚本、排练时间表和培训练习。这些材料将在2012年夏季麦迪逊地区技术学院的表演培训讲习班期间进行试点测试，同时培训来自全国各地的五个团体的代表表演SI节目。参与者将从ACS本科生团体，外展专家和博物馆专业人士中选出。然后，研讨会参与者返回他们的家乡机构，在FST团队成员和社交网络工具的支持下，通过Moodle提供的改进的绩效培训包带领他们的团队。第二个交付成果是FST方法研讨会。方法研讨会的目的是教正式和非正式的教育工作者使用选定的方法（调查问题，嵌入式评估，并采取行动）在他们的推广工作和课堂教学。 四个研讨会将在国家会议上，并应学院，大学和科学中心的邀请。将通过一个在线论坛对讲习班参与者进行后续活动，以鼓励试验、修改和传播第二代森林科学技术活动。最后一个项目交付成果是制定和实施一个推广和招聘计划，将专业受众与FST联系起来。远程表演培训项目和研讨会将使用混合方法进行评估，同时嵌入式评估将用于衡量参加SI展会的青少年参与者的影响，以确定远程表演培训的整体效果。该项目旨在对STEM教育和社会产生重要影响。拟议的传播计划将创新的模式和方法带到非正式科学教育从业者手中，他们可以使用这些模式和方法来吸引当地受众，并加强自己的教学和交流实践。最后，该项目通过创造和传播创新实践来消除科学文盲，减少科学家和工程师的数量，缺乏对科学本质的理解，以及加剧这些问题的成就差距，为社会带来了可能的好处。这个项目可能是变革性的非正式科学教育，SI显示使用戏剧吸引观众在科学学习的多个方面。预计这一项目将惠及多达2 500名公众和专业受众。