SciGirls CONNECT2: Investigating the Use of Gender Equitable Teaching Strategies to Support STEM Identity Development in Youth

SciGirls CONNECT2：调查使用性别平等教学策略支持青少年 STEM 身份发展

• 批准号: 1612605
• 负责人: Rita Karl
• 金额: $ 118.51万
• 依托单位: Twin Cities Public Television
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612605&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SciGirls; CONNECT2; Investigating; Use; Gender

Currently, many young people - especially girls and youth of color - lose confidence and interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) pathways due to a perceived disconnect between their own identity and STEM fields. To address this challenge, Twin Cities PBS (TPT) is implementing SciGirls CONNECT2. This three-year Research in Service to Practice award examines how gender equitable and culturally responsive teaching strategies influence middle school girls' confidence, interest and motivation around STEM studies, and their choices around STEM careers. A set of research-based strategies, called the SciGirls Seven, are currently employed in SciGirls, an NSF-funded informal STEM educational outreach program serving 125+ educational partner organizations nationwide. The goal is to update and enrich the SciGirls Seven, providing educators with a critical, current, and more effective resource to motivate girls in STEM studies and careers. It is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.Florida State University will conduct a formal research study investigating the hypothesis that STEM programs that use gender equitable and culturally responsive strategies contribute to girls' positive STEM identity development, including their sense of self-efficacy, persistence and aspirations around future STEM careers. This research will include a literature review and a study of girls' STEM identity creation. The mixed methods study will include quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis measuring changes in students' STEM identity and teachers' confidence in STEM teaching. The quantitative data will come from the student, parent and teacher pre/post surveys. The qualitative research will be conducted via case studies at four sites and the qualitative data will include observations, focus groups and interviews. Girls at all partner sites will create videos that will allow the research team to gather additional insight. The independent firm Knight Williams, Inc. will conduct the project's external evaluation.The project will work with a subset of 16 current SciGirls partners. These geographically diverse partners will reach youth in all-girls and co-ed informal STEM education programs in a variety of settings. More than half serve Hispanic or other minority populations. The updated strategies will be disseminated to the 2,500 educators within the SciGirls partner network and the 18,800 STEM education organizations of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) network. Dissemination of the strategies and literature review will focus on the informal STEM education field through publications and presentations, posts at PBS LearningMedia, a free online space reaching 1.5 million teachers and educators.

目前，许多年轻人--特别是女孩和有色人种青年--对科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)道路失去信心和兴趣，因为他们认为自己的身份与STEM领域之间存在脱节。为了应对这一挑战，双子城公共广播公司(TPT)正在实施本网站女孩连接2。这项为期三年的服务于实践的研究奖考察了性别平等和文化响应的教学策略如何影响中学女生对STEM学习的信心、兴趣和动机，以及她们对STEM职业的选择。一套以研究为基础的战略，称为本女孩七，目前正在本女孩，美国国家科学基金会资助的非正式STEM教育推广计划，服务于全国125+教育合作伙伴组织。其目标是更新和丰富本年度女孩七人组，为教育工作者提供关键的、最新的和更有效的资源，以激励女孩参与STEM学习和职业生涯。它由推进非正式STEM学习计划(AISL)资助，该计划旨在推动对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解。佛罗里达州立大学将进行一项正式的研究，调查使用性别平等和文化响应策略的STEM项目有助于女孩积极的STEM身份认同发展的假设，包括她们对未来STEM职业生涯的自我效能感、坚持感和抱负。本研究将包括文献综述和对女孩STEM身份创造的研究。混合方法研究将包括定量和定性的数据收集和分析，衡量学生对STEM的认同和教师对STEM教学的信心的变化。量化数据将来自学生、家长和教师的前后调查。定性研究将通过在四个地点的案例研究进行，定性数据将包括观察、焦点小组和访谈。所有合作伙伴网站的女孩都将制作视频，让研究团队收集更多的见解。独立公司Knight Williams，Inc.将对该项目进行外部评估。该项目将与本网站现有的16个合作伙伴合作。这些地理上不同的合作伙伴将在各种环境中通过全女生和男女同校的非正式STEM教育方案接触到青年。超过一半的人服务于西班牙裔或其他少数族裔人口。更新后的战略将分发给本女孩合作伙伴网络内的2500名教育工作者和国家女童合作项目(NGCP)网络的18800个STEM教育组织。战略的传播和文献审查将重点放在非正式的STEM教育领域，方法是出版出版物和演示文稿，在PBS LearningingMedia上张贴帖子，这是一个免费的在线空间，惠及150万教师和教育工作者。