Engaging Secondary Students in Regionally Relevant Science Topics Through Videography

该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验(ITEST)计划的努力，通过让学生和他们的老师参与环境变化研究，更好地了解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的实践。来自低收入家庭和STEM领域代表性不足的其他群体的初中生和高中生将参加一个暑期计划和一个学年计划，以制作视频记录环境变化对他们生活和社区的影响。学生将学习与录制、编辑和制作视频相关的技能；他们将选择主题和地点来记录环境变化；他们将创建视频，其中包括当地环境的原始镜头、对科学家的采访、静止图像以及传达他们的发现所需的其他补充材料。学生将与科学和电影研究生和本科生导师配对，研究、拍摄、编辑和放映他们的视频。所有视频将在向公众开放的电影节上放映。项目目标是：a)通过合作摄像项目激发并保持对STEM相关领域的兴趣；b)通过与STEM、科学传播和数字技术领域的导师互动，提高学生STEM工作准备和意识；以及c)增进STEM教育中影响学生成绩的因素的知识。该项目将比较两种学生参与模式的结果：一种是密集的一周暑期模式，另一种是为期6个月的学年模式。该项目的研究将集中在与职业意识和目标、学校参与度和坚持性、对科学和技术的态度以及气候科学知识相关的学生成果上。将衡量两种模式的结果，并检查人口因素的调节作用以及教师、导师、同龄人、父母和社交媒体的影响。将使用人口统计信息以及在计划实施前后进行的调查和评估的数据来比较三组人：a)夏季模式的参与者；b)学年模式的参与者；c)与人口统计相匹配的对照组。定性和定量相结合的研究方法将被用来解释学生的结果和影响这些结果的因素。

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging students and their teachers in studies of environmental change. Middle and high school students from low-income backgrounds and other groups underrepresented in STEM fields will participate in a summer program and a school-year program to produce videos documenting the effects of environmental changes on their lives and communities. Students will learn skills associated with recording, editing, and producing videos; they will choose topics and locations to document environmental changes; and they will create videos that include original footage of local environments and interviews with scientists, still images, and other supplementary materials needed to communicate their findings. Students will be paired with science and film graduate and undergraduate student mentors to research, film, edit, and screen their videos. All videos will be screened at a Film Festival open to the general public.The project goals are to: a) generate and sustain interest in STEM-related fields through collaborative videography projects; b) increase student STEM workforce readiness and awareness through interactions with mentors working in STEM, science communication, and digital technology fields; and c) advance knowledge in STEM education of factors that impact student outcomes. The project will compare the outcomes of two student engagement models: an intensive one-week summer model, and a school-year model implemented over a period of 6 months. Research in this project will focus on student outcomes related to career awareness and goals, school engagement and persistence, attitudes toward science and technology, and climate science knowledge. Outcomes of the two models will be measured, and the moderating effects of demographic factors and the influence of teachers, mentors, peers, parents, and social media will be examined. Demographic information and data from surveys and assessments administered before and after program implementation will be used to compare three groups: a) participants in the summer model; b) participants in the school-year model; and c) and a demographically matched comparison group. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods will be used to interpret student outcomes and factors influencing those outcomes.