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NSF INCLUDES: Alliance to Strengthen the STEM Tapestry (ASSisT): Motivating Critical Identity Shifts to Weave the STEM Disenfranchised into Science and the Sustainability Workforce

NSF 包括：加强 STEM Tapestry 联盟 (ASSisT)：激励关键身份转变，将被剥夺权利的 STEM 融入科学和可持续发展劳动力队伍

基本信息

批准号：
1649161
负责人：
Nalini Nadkarni
金额：
$ 30万
依托单位：
University of Utah
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-10-01 至 2019-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649161&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NSF INCLUDES Alliance Strengthen STEM

项目摘要

This innovative research project promotes the progress of science, enhances the national STEM workforce, and benefits society by helping to overcome the challenge of broadening participation of those who are underrepresented in STEM fields. Although many programs designed to broaden participation exist, few individuals in "STEM-disenfranchised" populations -- individuals who feel alienated, marginalized, or incapable of participating in STEM -- choose to make use of these opportunities, due mainly to their own self-identities. This project's focus is on three STEM-disenfranchised groups: 1) adults who have been recently released from incarceration; 2) youth who have been released from juvenile custody; and 3) refugee youth, and builds on existing science education programs. The research team will establish the "Alliance to Strengthen the STEM Tapestry (ASSiST)" -- with members from academia, workforce agencies, NGOs, and government agencies -- to explore how individuals who have an identity prematurely tied to failure in science might benefit from novel interventions that promote a shift of self-identity to becoming science learners, which will then lead them to explore STEM education and job training resources that already exist. Three novel interventions will involve drama activities, story- telling, and ecological restoration projects. This bold approach is designed to help these populations interweave their diverse ways of knowing with STEM workforce, higher education, and to become science-aware citizens, which will enhance U.S. leadership in STEM. ASSisT will create a strategic plan that can be interwoven with those of other NSF INCLUDES Alliances, and identify pathways to distribute outcomes to a national level. This work will provide pathways to bring other groups that are disenfranchised and who -- if motivated and directed -- could strengthen the STEM workforce and education tapestry.Investments to broaden participation in science in the USA have supported abundant programs and resources, but few individual in "STEM-disenfranchised" populations -- individuals who feel alienated, marginalized, or incapable of participating in STEM -- choose to make use of these opportunities, due most significantly to their own self-identities. The proposed "Alliance to Strengthen the STEM Tapestry (ASSisT)" will carry out research on novel interventions that are designed to lead these individuals to avail themselves of the science education and training resources that already exist. The initial focus is on: 1) adults who have been recently released from incarceration; 2) youth who have been released from juvenile custody; and 3) refugee youth. Using a collective impact approach, ASSisT will carry out early-exploratory research to investigate how the project's novel interventions -- 1) ecological restoration, 2) story-telling/autoethnography, and 3) devised theater -- might shift participants towards self-identification and subsequent involvement with the STEM community. The Intellectual Merit of our approach is grounded in social science research, specifically, identity theory, social cognitive theory, and resilience theory. Using a one-group pretest-posttest design, qualitative research techniques will identify which elements are most critical to foster change, e.g., perceived competence in STEM subjects, congruence of self-perception with those in STEM, mastery of STEM workforce skills, and/or the importance of being a STEM-aware citizen. Broader impacts relate directly to NSF's call for greater STEM participation of women and underrepresented ethnic and socioeconomic minorities with impacts on the initial 30 cohort members for this pilot project. ASSisT will: create a common agenda; recruit cohorts of each STEM-disenfranchised group; design and implement research to test novel interventions; populate a STEM opportunities map; evaluate and analyze outcomes; articulate a strategic plan that can be interwoven with those of other NSF INCLUDES Alliances; and identify pathways to disseminate outcomes and benchmarks to a national level.

这个创新的研究项目促进了科学的进步，增强了国家STEM劳动力，并通过帮助克服扩大那些在STEM领域代表性不足的人的参与的挑战来造福社会。尽管存在许多旨在扩大参与的方案，但在“STEM被剥夺权利”的人群中，很少有人-那些感到被疏远，被边缘化或无法参与STEM的人-选择利用这些机会，主要是由于他们自己的自我认同。该项目的重点是三个STEM被剥夺权利的群体：1）最近从监禁中释放的成年人; 2）从少年拘留中释放的青年; 3）难民青年，并建立在现有的科学教育计划基础上。该研究小组将建立“加强STEM挂毯联盟（ASSiST）”-与来自学术界，劳动力机构，非政府组织和政府机构的成员-探索那些过早地将身份与科学失败联系在一起的个人如何可能受益于促进自我认同转变为科学学习者的新干预措施，这将引导他们探索已经存在的STEM教育和职业培训资源。三个新颖的干预措施将涉及戏剧活动，讲故事和生态恢复项目。这种大胆的方法旨在帮助这些人群将他们的不同认知方式与STEM劳动力，高等教育交织在一起，并成为具有科学意识的公民，这将增强美国在STEM领域的领导地位。ASSisT将创建一个战略计划，可以与其他NSF INCLUDES联盟的战略计划交织在一起，并确定将成果分发到国家一级的途径。这项工作将为其他被剥夺公民权的群体提供途径，如果受到激励和指导，他们可以加强STEM劳动力和教育。在美国，扩大科学参与的投资支持了丰富的项目和资源，但在“STEM被剥夺公民权”的人群中，很少有人感到被疏远，被边缘化，或无法参与STEM的人--选择利用这些机会，最重要的是由于他们自己的自我认同。拟议中的“加强STEM挂毯联盟”（ASSisT）将对旨在引导这些人利用现有科学教育和培训资源的新干预措施进行研究。最初的重点是：1）最近从监禁中获释的成年人; 2）从少年拘留所获释的青年; 3）难民青年。使用集体影响的方法，ASSisT将进行早期探索性研究，以调查该项目的新干预措施- 1）生态恢复，2）讲故事/自我民族志，3）设计剧院-可能会使参与者转向自我认同和随后参与STEM社区。我们的方法的智力优点是基于社会科学研究，特别是身份理论，社会认知理论和弹性理论。使用单组前后测设计，定性研究技术将确定哪些因素对促进变化最关键，例如，在STEM学科的感知能力，自我认知的一致性与那些在STEM，掌握STEM劳动力技能，和/或作为一个STEM意识公民的重要性。更广泛的影响直接关系到NSF呼吁妇女和代表性不足的种族和社会经济少数群体更多地参与STEM，并对该试点项目的最初30名群组成员产生影响。ASSisT将：制定共同议程;招募每个STEM被剥夺权利的群体;设计和实施研究以测试新的干预措施;填充STEM机会地图;评估和分析结果;阐明可以与其他NSF INCLUDES联盟交织在一起的战略计划;并确定将结果和基准传播到国家层面的途径。