Developing and studying the replication of Math Corps, an out-of-school-time mathematics program for urban youth

韦恩州立大学数学团是一个数学学习和辅导项目，在夏季和周六运行。这一非正式学习计划的课程和教学方法证明，在支持青少年学习数学以及提高在校成绩水平方面取得了成功。通过严格的研究和评估，这个项目试图分析和理解数学服务团在底特律青少年学习方面取得成功的性质、范围和原因，以及在三个地点复制计划的过程：俄亥俄州克利夫兰、纽约州尤蒂卡和宾夕法尼亚州费城。因此，该项目将加深对计划复制和解决经济困难社区青年需求的理解，以促进数学学习。该项目的研究将评估使数学服务团在底特律青年中取得成功的多种因素，并将该计划的实施记录到三个复制地点。研究方法包括语篇分析、调查、访谈和前后测。该项目还将根据短期和长期青年结果的量化数据集对数学团进行回顾评估。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习计划资助，该计划旨在促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解。

The Wayne State University Math Corps is a mathematics enrichment and mentoring program that operates during summers and on Saturdays. The curriculum and the teach pedagogies in this informal learning program have documented success of supporting youths' mathematics learning as well as raising achievement levels in school. Through rigorous research and evaluation, this project seeks to analyze and understand the nature, extent, and reasons for Math Corps' success with youth learning in Detroit as well as the processes of program replication in three sites: Cleveland, OH; Utica, NY; and Philadelphia, PA. As such, this project will deepen understandings of program replication and of addressing the needs of youth in economically-challenged communities in order to promote mathematics learning.The project's research studies will assess the multiple factors that make Math Corps successful with youth in Detroit and document the implementation of the program to the three replication sites. Research methods include discourse analyses, surveys, interviews, and pre/post-tests. The project will also conduct a retrospective evaluation of Math Corps based on quantitative datasets regarding both near-term and long-term youth outcomes.This projects is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understandings of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.