PBS NewsHour STEM Student Reporting Labs: Broad expansion of youth journalism to support increased STEM literacy among underserved student populations and their communities

PBS NewsHour STEM 学生报道实验室：广泛扩展青年新闻，支持提高服务不足的学生群体及其社区的 STEM 素养

• 批准号: 1503315
• 负责人: Leah Clapman
• 金额: $ 294.33万
• 依托单位: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503315&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PBS; NewsHour; STEM; Student; Reporting

The Discovery Research K-12 program (DR-K12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. This project scales up the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL), a model that trains teens to produce video reports on important STEM issues from a youth perspective. Participating schools receive a SRL journalism and digital media literacy curriculum, a mentor for students from a local PBS affiliate, professional development for educators, and support from the PBS NewsHour team. The production of news stories and student-oriented instruction in the classroom are designed to increase student learning of STEM content through student-centered inquiry and reflections on metacognition. Students will develop a deep understanding of the material to choose the best strategy to teach or tell the STEM story to others through digital media. Over the 4 years of the project, the model will be expanded from the current 70 schools to 150 in 40 states targeting schools with high populations of underrepresented youth. New components will be added to the model including STEM professional mentors and a social media and media analytics component. Project partners include local PBS stations, Project Lead the Way, and Share My Lesson educators.The research study conducted by New Knowledge, LLC will add new knowledge about the growing field of youth science journalism and digital media. Front-end evaluation will assess students' understanding of contemporary STEM issues by deploying a web-based survey to crowd-source youth reactions, interest, questions, and thoughts about current science issues. A subset of questions will explore students' tendencies to pass newly-acquired information to members of the larger social networks. Formative evaluation will include qualitative and quantitative studies of multiple stakeholders at the Student Reporting Labs to refine the implementation of the program. Summative evaluation will track learning outcomes/changes such as: How does student reporting on STEM news increase their STEM literacy competencies? How does it affect their interest in STEM careers? Which strategies are most effective with underrepresented students? How do youth communicate with each other about science content, informing news media best practices? The research team will use data from pre/post and post-delayed surveys taken by 1700 students in the STEM Student Reporting Labs and 1700 from control groups. In addition, interviews with teachers will assess the curriculum and impressions of student engagement.

探索研究K-12计划（DR-K12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具（RMT），显着提高学前学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议项目提供了理论和经验依据。该项目扩大了PBS NewsHour学生报告实验室（SRL），该模型 培训青少年从青年的角度制作关于重要STEM问题的视频报告。参与的学校将获得SRL新闻和数字媒体素养课程，当地PBS附属机构的学生导师，教育工作者的专业发展以及PBS NewsHour团队的支持。 新闻故事的制作和以学生为导向的课堂教学旨在通过以学生为中心的探究和对元认知的反思来增加学生对STEM内容的学习。学生将对材料有深刻的理解，以选择最佳策略，通过数字媒体向他人教授或讲述STEM故事。 在该项目的4年中，该模式将从目前的70所学校扩大到40个州的150所学校，目标是代表性不足的青年人数较多的学校。 新的组件将被添加到模型中，包括STEM专业导师和社交媒体和媒体分析组件。 项目合作伙伴包括当地的PBS电视台，Project Lead the Way和Share My Lesson教育工作者。New Knowledge，LLC进行的研究将增加有关青年科学新闻和数字媒体领域的新知识。前端评估将通过部署基于网络的调查来评估学生对当代STEM问题的理解，以众包青年对当前科学问题的反应，兴趣，问题和想法。 一部分问题将探讨学生将新获得的信息传递给较大社交网络成员的倾向。形成性评估将包括在学生报告实验室的多个利益相关者的定性和定量研究，以完善该计划的实施。 总结性评价将跟踪学习成果/变化，例如： 学生如何报道STEM新闻提高他们的STEM素养能力？ 它如何影响他们对STEM职业的兴趣？ 哪些策略对代表性不足的学生最有效？ 青年如何就科学内容相互交流，为新闻媒体的最佳做法提供信息？ 研究团队将使用STEM学生报告实验室的1700名学生和对照组的1700名学生进行的前/后和后延迟调查的数据。 此外，与教师的访谈将评估课程和学生参与的印象。