Role Models in Elementary Engineering Education

基础工程教育的榜样

• 批准号: 1657509
• 负责人: Merredith Portsmore
• 金额: $ 59.98万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1657509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; Models; Elementary; Engineering; Education

The Role Models in Engineering Education project (Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and Indiana University) will improve the impact of engineering outreach programs through research and tool development. Providing role models through outreach is widely practiced and recommended, yet little is known about how elementary students, particularly girls, choose engineering role models. Engineering interest declines as girls enter middle school, making elementary school a potentially critical developmental window for bolstering engineering aspirations. The project will generate and share knowledge of female elementary students' selection of role models in a university-based engineering outreach program. Specifically, it will increase understanding of the ways in which girls identify and select engineering role models and it will contribute to understanding how role models promote interest in engineering careers by girls. This project will inform best practices in engineering outreach, and help university outreach leaders develop more effective educational interventions for female elementary students. Ultimately, this research aims to increase the number of girls and women studying engineering and working as engineers. Increasing the number of girls and women interested in engineering increases educational and economic equity for women and increases the pool of skilled engineers, thereby improving technology development in the nation. 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 Role Models in Engineering Education project goals are to advance the understanding of the mechanisms by which female elementary students identify engineering role models and to develop resources to support effective role model-student interactions that can be used by any university-based engineering outreach program. The intervention model draws on the stereotype inoculation model, role model theory, and design-based research practices. Over three years, the project will study 160 elementary students and 96 undergraduate engineering students in an established engineering outreach program, and will focus on positioning the undergraduates as emulable role models by making their engineering identities evident and by building supportive relationships between the undergraduates and the elementary students. The project will utilize in-depth qualitative analysis of the interactions between role models and students, complemented with quantitative tools to evaluate identity and career awareness. This research will inform an iterative process of designing resources and training to prepare role models in engineering and optimize their interactions with elementary students. This project aims to increase understanding of how girls take up engineering role models and to develop effective role model training. By adding to knowledge of engineering role model identification and uptake, this research may help outreach providers spark and sustain more girls' interest in engineering study and engineering careers.

工程教育榜样项目（塔夫茨工程教育与推广中心和印第安纳大学）将通过研究和工具开发来提高工程推广项目的影响。通过外展活动提供榜样是被广泛实践和推荐的，但很少有人知道小学生，尤其是女孩，是如何选择工程榜样的。随着女孩进入中学，她们对工程的兴趣逐渐下降，这使得小学成为了一个潜在的关键发展窗口，可以增强她们对工程的渴望。该项目将产生并分享女小学生在以大学为基础的工程推广项目中选择榜样的知识。具体来说，它将增加对女孩识别和选择工程榜样的方式的理解，并有助于理解榜样如何促进女孩对工程职业的兴趣。该项目将为工程外展的最佳实践提供信息，并帮助大学外展负责人为女小学生制定更有效的教育干预措施。最终，这项研究的目的是增加学习工程学和成为工程师的女孩和女性的数量。增加对工程感兴趣的女孩和妇女的数量可以增加妇女的教育和经济平等，并增加熟练工程师的数量，从而改善国家的技术发展。该项目将推进“面向学生和教师的创新技术体验”（ITEST）项目的工作，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业的动机和能力的实践。工程教育中的角色榜样项目的目标是促进对女小学生识别工程角色榜样的机制的理解，并开发资源来支持有效的角色榜样与学生的互动，这些互动可以用于任何基于大学的工程推广项目。干预模型借鉴了刻板印象接种模型、角色模型理论和基于设计的研究实践。在三年的时间里，该项目将对160名小学生和96名工程专业本科生进行研究，并将重点放在通过明确他们的工程身份和建立本科生与小学生之间的支持关系，将本科生定位为可效仿的榜样。该项目将对榜样与学生之间的互动进行深入的定性分析，并辅以定量工具来评估身份和职业意识。这项研究将为设计资源和训练的迭代过程提供信息，以准备工程中的角色榜样，并优化他们与小学生的互动。该项目旨在增进对女孩如何树立工程榜样的理解，并开展有效的榜样培训。通过增加工程角色模型识别和吸收的知识，这项研究可以帮助外展提供者激发和维持更多女孩对工程学习和工程职业的兴趣。

项目成果

Development and validation of the role identity surveys in engineering (RIS-E) and STEM (RIS-STEM) for elementary students

针对小学生的工程 (RIS-E) 和 STEM (RIS-STEM) 角色认同调查的开发和验证

• DOI: 10.1186/s40594-020-00243-2
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: International Journal of STEM Education
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Paul, Kelli M.;Maltese, Adam V.;Svetina Valdivia, Dubravka
• 通讯作者: Svetina Valdivia, Dubravka

Characterizing Engineering Outreach Ambassadors' Teaching Moves during Engineering Design Activities (Fundamental)

表征工程外展大使在工程设计活动中的教学动作（基础）

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--34275
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: American Society of Engineering Education
• 作者: Moison, Elizabeth;Miel, Karen;Portsmore, Merredith;Paul, Kelli;Maltese, Adam;Kim, Jungsun
• 通讯作者: Kim, Jungsun

Board 110: Work in Progress: Elementary Students’ Disciplinary Talk in a Classroom with an Explicit Engineering Decision-making Scaffold

Board 110：正在进行的工作：小学生在带有明确工程决策支架的课堂上进行纪律谈话

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--32188
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: ASEE Conferences
• 作者: Batrouny, Nicole;Miel, Karen;Wendell, Kristen
• 通讯作者: Wendell, Kristen

“Maybe If I Put My Mind To It": 5th Graders’ Receptivity to Pursuing Engineering Careers (Fundamental)

“也许如果我下定决心”：五年级学生对追求工程职业的接受度（基础）

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--31924
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: ASEE Conferences
• 作者: Miel, Karen;Portsmore, Merredith;Fuller, Emily;Paul, Kelli;Sung, Euisuk;Maltese, Adam
• 通讯作者: Maltese, Adam

Characterizing engineering outreach educators' talk moves: An exploratory framework

表征工程外展教育工作者的谈话动作：探索性框架

• DOI: 10.1002/jee.20514
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Engineering Education
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Miel, Karen;Swanson, Rebecca D.;Portsmore, Merredith;Paul, Kelli M.;Moison, Elizabeth A.;Kim, Jungsun;Maltese, Adam V.
• 通讯作者: Maltese, Adam V.