Motivating Bilingual Hispanic Youth Towards STEM & STEM Cognate Study and Careers (MIO STEM)

激励双语西班牙裔青年走向 STEM

• 批准号: 1433837
• 负责人: Sasha Barab
• 金额: $ 119.9万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1433837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Motivating; Bilingual; Hispanic; Youth; Towards

The Arizona State University Center for Games and Impact will collaborate with VME (Vme Media), E-Line Media, and HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities) to develop a project designed to engage Hispanic middle-school students in learning about STEM careers. The project will initially stimulate career interest as youth reflect on game play using the Career Illumination Tool. They will then work through a number of targeted quests using a bilingual, game-infused platform, followed by submitting an application expressing interest in pursuing a STEM focused degree program, and culminating in a HACU tour at universities and community colleges in the Phoenix and San Antonio areas. Students and their parents will be recruited through: (1) nationally broadcast Vme television (Spanish-language public television) episodes and web-based shorts in Spanish and English introducing STEM careers and the college application process and (2) community-level outreach. The project will involve approximately 1300 middle-school students in the Phoenix, AZ and San Antonio, TX school districts, as well as participants from other regions reached by media outreach.An online guidebook will facilitate the adoption of the program by other communities across the nation. The project will develop a web presence on the Vme Television website, and will use an original television series to promote the program among a Hispanic audience of more that 11 million viewers. The project and its resources will be further disseminated through presentations at conferences, journal article submissions, outreach to Hispanic-serving institutes of higher education, and the use of social media to target Latino students. This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand how online resources, gaming and media increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).The project design is based on a growing body of research that documents the successful use of technology in developing student interest and engagement in STEM activities. A mixed methods approach will be used to examine research questions that will look at the communities formed by participants, reciprocal influences of the project on participants and their caregivers and teachers, and student uptake of concepts and resources along with the effects on their self-efficacy and interest in STEM career pathways. The project will access data analytics (user data) to determine how users are participating and use these interactions to understand what areas and resources are drawing students in. The project will further analyze STEM learning from games, self-efficacy, and attitudes towards STEM careers using validated instruments.

亚利桑那州立大学游戏与影响力中心将与VME（VME Media），E-Line Media和HACU（西班牙裔学院与大学协会）合作开发一个旨在吸引西班牙裔中学学生学习STEM职业的项目。该项目最初将刺激职业生涯使用职业照明工具对游戏的兴趣。然后，他们将使用双语的，注入游戏的平台通过许多有针对性的任务，然后提交申请表达兴趣，以追求以STEM为重点的学位课程，并在凤凰城和圣安东尼奥地区的大学和社区学院的HACU巡回演出中达到最终。学生和他们的父母将通过以下方式招募：（1）全国广播VME电视（西班牙语公共电视）情节和基于Web的短裤，西班牙语和英语引入STEM职业以及大学申请流程以及（2）社区级别的外展活动。该项目将涉及凤凰城，亚利桑那州和圣安东尼奥市的大约1300名中学生，以及德克萨斯州学区的，以及媒体宣传所到达的其他地区的参与者。一个在线指南将促进全国其他社区通过该计划的采用。该项目将在VME电视网站上开发网络形象，并将使用原始电视连续剧在西班牙裔观众中宣传该节目。该项目及其资源将通过会议，期刊文章提交，向西班牙裔服务学院的宣传以及使用社交媒体以针对拉丁裔学生的使用，进一步传播。 该项目将促进针对学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术体验的努力，以更好地了解在线资源，游戏和媒体如何增加学生的动机和能力，从而从事科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域的职业。项目设计是基于越来越多的研究的研究，该研究记录了一项成功地利用技术来开发学生的兴趣和参与Steam Access in Stem in Stem in Stem in Stem in Stem in Stem in Stem in Stem in STEM和参与STEM中。一种混合的方法方法将用于研究研究问题，以研究参与者形成的社区，项目对参与者及其护理人员和教师的相互影响，以及学生对概念和资源的吸收，以及对他们的自我效能感和对STEM职业途径的兴趣的影响。该项目将访问数据分析（用户数据），以确定用户如何参与并使用这些交互来了解哪些领域和资源吸引学生参与。该项目将进一步分析使用经过验证的工具从游戏，自我效能感和对STEM职业的态度的STEM学习。