Collaborative Research: Parenting for STEM Success in African American Families

合作研究：非裔美国家庭 STEM 成功的育儿

• 批准号: 1251736
• 负责人: Beth Kurtz-Costes
• 金额: $ 34.14万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1251736&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Parenting; STEM; Success

This collaborative proposal focuses on African American parents' racial beliefs and experiences as mechanisms shaping their parenting relevant to youths' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) success. The purpose of the longitudinal study is to investigate the relationship of parents' race related beliefs to their socialization (particularly their fostering of science and math skills) of their early adolescent children. The project links race as a social identity with parenting and young adolescents' performance in science and mathematics. The investigators will obtain survey data in Grades 6, 7, and 8 from 380 African American students, one of their parents, and their teachers. Hypotheses regarding the relationships between parents' race-related experiences and beliefs (i.e., racial discrimination, knowledge of inequalities, racial identity, and endorsement of race stereotypes) and the academic socialization of their children will be tested. Differences in these processes by child gender and ability will be examined. The project's intellectual merit is its potential to advance understanding about STEM success for underrepresented youth. The focus will yield new insights in an area where African American youth are likely to face negative stereotypes and discriminatory treatment, and where most prior research has focused on classroom processes rather than parenting. Broader impacts of the work are in the realms of education and training; inclusion of under-represented groups; and dissemination to teachers, families, the public, and to the scientific community.

这项合作提案的重点是非洲裔美国父母的种族信仰和经历，作为塑造他们的养育方式与青少年科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）成功相关的机制。本研究旨在探讨父母的种族信仰与青少年早期儿童的社会化（特别是对其科学和数学技能的培养）之间的关系。该项目将种族作为一种社会身份，与父母教养和青少年在科学和数学方面的表现联系起来。调查人员将从380名非裔美国学生、他们的一位家长和他们的老师那里获得6年级、7年级和8年级的调查数据。关于父母与种族有关的经历和信仰（即种族歧视、对不平等的认识、种族认同和对种族刻板印象的认可）与其子女的学术社会化之间关系的假设将得到检验。将审查儿童性别和能力在这些过程中的差异。该项目的智力价值在于，它有可能促进对未被充分代表的青年在STEM领域取得成功的理解。在非裔美国青年可能面临负面刻板印象和歧视性待遇的领域，以及大多数先前研究侧重于课堂过程而不是父母教育的领域，这一重点将产生新的见解。这项工作的更广泛影响是在教育和培训领域；纳入代表性不足的群体；并向教师、家庭、公众和科学界传播。