EAGER -- Journal to catalyze advances in formal and informal STEM education

EAGER——促进正式和非正式 STEM 教育进步的期刊

• 批准号: 1420262
• 负责人: David Evans
• 金额: $ 30.64万
• 依托单位: National Science Teaching Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1420262&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Journal; catalyze; advances; formal

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) and their research/evaluation partner, David Heil and Associates (DHA), will conduct front-end research to develop, pilot, and evaluate (formatively and summatively) a peer-reviewed journal and associated multi-media resources designed to catalyze innovative advances and learning across formal and informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education communities. The goal is to identify content that is useful and appeals to the intersection of three target audiences: informal educators, formal educators and researchers conducting research at the intersection of in-school and out-of-school learning. This informal science education (ISE) "journal" would be a multi-media resource, available in both print and electronic forms, that could include videos or digital interactives and provide the potential for audience/reader feedback mechanisms, including input via social media. The publication proposed in this project has the potential to satisfy in part a key need identified in a Wellcome Trust study, Analysing the UK Science Education Community: The contribution of informal providers. The study report identifies the need to build an international depository of what has been and is being learned in ISE experiences at the boundary of in-school and out-of-school STEM learning - including syntheses of research, program evaluations, policy reports and illustrative cases studies. The proposed journal will also provide a vehicle to encourage and develop incentives for practitioners to publish results of their work. The project will use surveys, phone interviews and focus groups to conduct: 1) a landscape assessment, identifying what resources are already available to target audiences, how they are used, and what is missing; 2) front-end research with target audiences prior to publication of pilot issues, assessing interests, needs, and expectations and testing early topics, delivery formats, and discussion vehicles; and (3) formative and summative evaluation, assessing how well the (two-issue) pilot and associated social media vehicles foster synergy and satisfy the needs of the identified target audiences.

美国国家科学教师协会 (NSTA)、科学技术中心协会 (ASTC) 及其研究/评估合作伙伴 David Heil and Associates (DHA) 将开展前端研究，以开发、试点和评估（形成性和总结性）同行评审期刊和相关多媒体资源，旨在促进正式和非正式科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 的创新进步和学习 教育社区。 目标是确定有用并吸引三个目标受众的内容：非正式教育工作者、正式教育工作者和在校内和校外学习交叉点进行研究的研究人员。这种非正式科学教育（ISE）“期刊”将是一种多媒体资源，以印刷版和电子版形式提供，其中可能包括视频或数字互动，并为受众/读者反馈机制提供潜力，包括通过社交媒体输入。 该项目提出的出版物有可能部分满足威康信托基金研究中确定的关键需求，《分析英国科学教育界：非正式提供者的贡献》。 该研究报告指出，有必要建立一个国际存储库，存储校内和校外 STEM 学习边界的 ISE 经验中已经学到的和正在学到的知识，包括研究综合、项目评估、政策报告和说明性案例研究。拟议的期刊还将提供一种工具，鼓励和发展从业者发表其工作成果的激励措施。 该项目将通过调查、电话访谈和焦点小组来进行：1）景观评估，确定目标受众已经可以使用哪些资源、如何使用这些资源以及缺少什么； 2) 在发布试点问题之前与目标受众进行前端研究，评估兴趣、需求和期望，并测试早期主题、交付格式和讨论工具； (3) 形成性和总结性评估，评估（两期）试点和相关社交媒体工具在促进协同作用和满足已确定目标受众的需求方面的效果。