CAREER: Making Across Contexts - Pathways to Engineering Adaptive Expertise

本研究调查青年在创客运动中的参与情况。一个由工程师、业余爱好者、艺术家和修理工组成的社区，他们设计、建造和重新利用实物？作为工程和设计方面的适应性专业知识的途径。该研究考察了正式（学校）和非正式（社区组织）的学习环境，以研究青少年如何通过“创造”来学习。在这些情况下。从这些交叉设置的对比中，学习环境以“创造”为中心。将通过混合方法研究进行设计和研究，并以迭代的方式逐步完善。该研究通过调查在较长时间内适应性专业知识的发展和通过“制造”工程身份的发展，解决了文献中的重要空白。以及参与创客运动。本研究将为实践、支持学习的认知工具和新的学习评估提供基于研究的建议。研究结果将通过会议论文、期刊文章以及与创客运动中的主要组织的合作伙伴关系广泛传播给研究人员和实践者。

This study investigates youth participation in the Maker Movement ? a community of engineers, hobbyists, artists, and tinkerers who design, build, and repurpose material objects ? as a pathway to adaptive expertise in engineering and design. The study looks across formal (schools) and informal (community organizations) learning environments to examine how youth learn through ?making? in these contexts. Drawing from these cross-setting contrasts, learning environments centered on ?making? will be designed, studied through mixed methods research, and progressively refined in an iterative fashion.The research addresses important gaps in the literature by investigating the development of adaptive expertise over an extended time period and the development of engineering identity through ?making? and participation in the Maker Movement. This study will provide research-based recommendations for practice, cognitive tools to support learning, and novel assessments of learning. Findings will be widely disseminated to both researchers and practitioners through conference papers, journal articles, and through partnerships with leading organizations within the Maker Movement.