Evaluating STEM Scouts: The Design of a Comprehensive Evaluation Plan and Feasibility Study

评估 STEM 童子军:综合评估计划和可行性研究的设计

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    1811214
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 19.36万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2018
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2018-11-01 至 2021-04-30
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. An immediate challenge for informal STEM education is the lack of high quality program evaluation. What does high-quality evaluation look like and how can it be accomplished? High-quality evaluation necessarily begins with good evaluation planning. In addition, although several large-scale youth-serving organizations embrace STEM, there is limited research on the interaction between STEM outcomes and social-emotional learning (SEL). This pilot and feasibility project involves a collaboration between researchers with expertise in STEM education, out-of-school time (OST) programs, social-emotional learning, and evaluation, as well as practitioners and program developers. STEM Scouts participants are grouped into "labs" of approximately 10-20 boys and girls with 3 or more leaders per group and often collaborate with local schools. The mission of STEM Scouts is to help young people grow in character and STEM skills as they explore their curiosity using experiential activities and interaction with STEM professionals. Building on prior NSF-funded work, this project expands the implementation of the Systems Evaluation Protocol (SEP), a three-stage evidence-based approach to evaluation planning involving (a) Preparation, (b) Model Development, and (c) Evaluation Plan Development. The proposed project has implications for other youth-serving organizations that also embrace a dual mission of supporting STEM and the social-emotional development of youth.The goals of this project are to: (1) develop a detailed theory of change for STEM Scouts that highlights the hypothesized interactions between STEM outcomes and Positive Youth Development/SEL outcomes; (2) pilot three new enhancements to the SEP (System Mapping, Ecosystem Modeling, and Model Validation); and (3) determine the feasibility of conducting a national scale STEM Scouts study. The project will utilize a research-practice partnership Evolutionary Evaluation approach and the enhanced SEP. A working group of STEM Scouts leadership and project researchers will work through initial stages of the SEP to generate a stakeholder map, logic model and pathway model (a causal depiction of how the program works). Ten STEM Scout Labs purposively selected from across the country with the goal of diverse representation will participate in focus groups. Using logic and pathway models generated by the working group, each Lab will complete a System Mapping activity to identify the larger system in which the Lab exists (e.g., stakeholders and decision-makers). Focus group participants will review and discuss their maps. Through Ecosystem Modeling they will identify the most important outcomes, key connections, and revisions they might make to their model, and discuss how the model reflects their STEM Scouts experiences. A coding dictionary will be developed to analyze focus group transcripts; findings will inform Model Verification and will be used to assess whether changes need to be made to the enhanced SEP. It is hypothesized the enhanced SEP will enable the working group to better understand factors hindering or enabling program and evaluation feasibility and success. Project findings will be disseminated to the evaluator and research community, OST program providers/developers and the public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。非正式STEM教育面临的一个直接挑战是缺乏高质量的项目评估。高质量的评价是什么样的,如何实现?高质量的评价必须从良好的评价规划开始。此外,尽管一些大型青年服务组织拥抱STEM,但对STEM成果与社会情感学习(SEL)之间的相互作用的研究有限。这个试点和可行性项目涉及具有STEM教育,校外时间(OST)计划,社会情感学习和评估专业知识的研究人员之间的合作,以及从业人员和程序开发人员。STEM童子军的参与者被分成大约10-20名男孩和女孩的“实验室”,每组有3名或更多的领导者,并经常与当地学校合作。STEM童子军的使命是帮助年轻人在性格和STEM技能方面成长,因为他们使用体验活动和与STEM专业人士的互动来探索他们的好奇心。该项目以国家科学基金会以前资助的工作为基础,扩大了系统评价议定书的执行范围,这是一种评价规划的三阶段循证方法,涉及(a)准备,(B)模型开发,和(c)评价计划开发。拟议的项目对其他青少年服务组织也有影响,这些组织也肩负着支持STEM和青少年社会情感发展的双重使命。该项目的目标是:(1)制定详细的STEM童子军变革理论,强调STEM成果和积极的青少年发展/SEL成果之间的假设互动;(2)对SEP进行三项新的增强(系统映射,生态系统建模和模型验证);(3)确定进行全国规模STEM童子军研究的可行性。该项目将利用研究-实践伙伴关系进化评估方法和增强的SEP。STEM童子军领导和项目研究人员的工作组将通过SEP的初始阶段工作,以生成利益相关者地图,逻辑模型和路径模型(对该计划如何运作的因果描述)。从全国各地有目的地选择的十个STEM侦察实验室将参加焦点小组。使用工作组生成的逻辑和路径模型,每个实验室将完成系统映射活动,以确定实验室所在的更大系统(例如,利益攸关方和决策者)。焦点小组参与者将审查和讨论他们的地图。通过生态系统建模,他们将确定最重要的结果,关键连接,以及他们可能对其模型进行的修订,并讨论该模型如何反映他们的STEM童子军经验。将开发一个编码词典来分析焦点小组的成绩单;结果将通知模型验证,并将用于评估是否需要对增强的SEP进行更改。假设增强的SEP将使工作组能够更好地了解阻碍或促进计划和评估可行性和成功的因素。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估,被认为值得支持。

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