Data Modeling with Young Learners and Their Families

越来越多的公民需要能够使用数据并考虑如何表示数据。这项工作采用了设计、制作、游戏框架，为幼儿及其照顾者在非正式环境中创建数据建模学习体验。该项目将为5-8岁的儿童开发和测试一系列研讨会的课程，让他们参与数据建模的有趣探索。孩子们将从事数据收集、数据表达和数据分析，绘制他们自己的世界经验。该课程将支持培养儿童对数据的兴趣和参与，这是一系列STEM职业和学科的基本概念。这项工作将为类似的数据建模和表示学习经验提供一个模型。该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验(ITEST)计划的努力，以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。该项目以幼儿学习的理论框架为基础，侧重于玩耍探索、设计，并建立在儿童自己的经验和问题的基础上。研究问题审查了如何设计课程以支持多年龄段的儿童进行数据建模，较小(5-6岁)和较大(7-8岁)儿童参与数据建模，以及有证据表明学习STEM的积极方法有所增加。设计和开发项目将使用基于设计的研究框架来测试和调查材料。孩子们应该增强他们解决问题、主动行动和利用现有资源提出自己的问题和应对新挑战的信心。收集的数据包括对参与者的采访，活动期间儿童工作的人工制品，以及记录问题解决、坚持不懈和参与的观察性工具。

There is a growing need for citizens to be able to work with data and consider how data is represented. This work employs a design, make, play framework to create data modeling learning experiences for young children and their caregivers in an informal setting. The project will develop and test a curriculum for a workshop series for 5-8 year old children to engage them in playful exploration of data modelling. Children will engage in data collection, data representation and data analysis drawing their own experiences of the world. The curriculum will support developing children's interest and engagement with data, a foundational concept for a range of STEM careers and disciplines. This work will provide a model for similar learning experiences in data modeling and representation. 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).The project is grounded in a theoretical framework for young children's learning that focus on playful exploration, design, and building on children's own experiences and questions. The research questions examine how the curriculum needs to be designed to support multi-age groups of children in data modeling, engagement in data modeling by younger (ages 5-6) and older (ages 7-8) children, and evidence of increased in active approaches to learning about STEM. The design and development project will test and investigate the materials using a design-based research framework. The children should increase their confidence in solve problems, in taking initiative and in drawing on available resources to pursue their own questions and respond to novel challenges. Data to be collected include interviews with participants, artifacts of children's work during the activity, and an observational instrument to document problem solving, persistence, and engagement.