Chicago Summer of Learning Self-Paced Online Badging Evaluation

芝加哥市将于2013年夏季开展创新暑期学习（CSOL），由芝加哥市长发起。年代的办公室。CSOL在全市范围内与各种青年服务组织合作，开展自定进度和面对面的STEM学习活动，使学生能够获得STEM徽章。RAPID项目创建了一种方法，通过使用青年的徽章和在线参与历史记录来跟踪年轻人对STEM项目的参与情况。尽管对STEM徽章的想法有相当大的兴趣和热情，但实际上，围绕徽章的评估/研究结果相对较少。这个项目可以通过提供有关青年的信息来填补这一空白。调查了美国学生对CSOL的参与程度、社交媒体发挥作用的程度，以及一项关于青少年在学年开始时的持续兴趣和参与程度的小型后续研究。该团队将使用这些数据来研究学生参与的模式，从而得出不同类型学生的参与概况以及行为模式。所有数据都将公开，并使研究人员能够参与调查STEM非正式学习参与对STEM长期成果的影响。评估研究可以建立一个有用的研究和评估基础设施，可以建立关于暑期学习对青少年对STEM的兴趣和参与的影响的知识。

The City of Chicago will embark on an innovative summer of learning (CSOL) in the summer of 2013, initiated by the Mayor?s office. CSOL engages a variety of youth serving oroganizations across the city in both self-paced and face-to-face STEM learning activites enabling students to earn STEM badges. This RAPID project creates an approach for tracking STEM program participation among young people by using youth's badging and online participation histories. While there is considerable interest and enthusiasm around the idea of STEM badges, there is actually a relatively thin set of evaluation/research findings around badges. This project can begin to fill in a piece of that gap by providing information on youth?s participation in CSOL, the degree to which social media plays a role, and a small follow-up study around youth's continued interest and engagement in the beginning of the school year. The team will use the data to look at patterns for student engagement that can lead to profiles of participation by different types of students along with patterns of behavior. All data will be made publicly available and will enable researchers to engage in inquiry about the impact of STEM informal learning participation on longer-term STEM outcomes. The evaluation study can lead to a useful research and evaluation infrastructure that can build knowledge about the impact of summer learning on youth's interest and engagement in STEM.