SCC: I4all (Interests for All): A Smart Socio-Technical Infrastructure to Identify, Cultivate, and Sustain Youth STEAM Interests in a Diverse Midsized American City

SCC：I4all（所有人的兴趣）：智能社会技术基础设施，用于在多元化的美国中型城市中识别、培养和维持青少年 STEAM 兴趣

• 批准号: 1831685
• 负责人: Nichole Pinkard
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 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: 2018-10-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1831685&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; I4all; Interests; Smart; Socio

This project is a Smart and Connected Communities award. The community is part of Evanston, Illinois and is composed of the lead partners described below:- EvanSTEM which is a in-school/out of school time (OST) program to improve access and engagement for students in Evanston who have underperformed or been underrepresented in STEM.- McGaw YMCA which consists of 12,000 families serving 20,000 individuals and supporting technology and makerspace activities (MetaMedia) in a safe community atmosphere.- Office of Community Education Partnerships (OCEP) at Northwestern University which provides support for the university and community to collaborate on research, teaching, and service initiatives. This partnership will develop a new approach to learning enagement through the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) interests of all young people in Evanston. This project is entitled Interests for All (I4All) and builds upon existing research results of the two Principal Investigators (PIs) and previous partnerships between the lead partners (EvanSTEM and MetaMedia had OCEP as a founding partner). I4All also brings together Evanston school districts, OST prividers, the city, and Evanston's Northwestern University as participants. In particular the project builds on PI Pinkard's Cities of Learning project and co-PI Stevens' FUSE Studios project. Both of these projects have explicit goals to broaden participation in STEAM pursuits, a goal that is significantly advanced through I4All. In this project, I4All infrastructure will be evaluated using quantitative metrics that will tell the researchers whether and to what degree Evanston youth are finding and developing their STEAM interests and whether the I4All infrastructure supports a significantly more equitable distribution of opportunities to youth. The researchers will also conduct in depth qualitative case studies of youth interest development. These longitudinal studies will complement the quantitative metrics of participation and give measures that will be used in informing changes in I4All as part of the PIs Design Based Implementation Research approach. The artifacts produced in I4All include FUSE studio projects, software infrastructure to guide the students through OST and in-school activities and to provide to the students actionable information as to logistics for participation in I4All activities, and data that will be available to all stakeholders to evaluate the effectiveness of I4All. Additionally, this research has the potential to provide for scaling this model to different communities, leveraging the OST network in one community to begin to offer professional development more widely throughout the school districts and as an exemplar for other districts. These research results could also affect strategies and policies created by local school officials and community organizations regarding how to work together to create local learning environments to create an ecosystem where formal and informal learning spaces support and reinforce STEAM knowledge.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.

该项目是一个智能和互联社区奖。该社区是埃文斯顿的一部分，伊利诺伊州，是由下面描述的主要合作伙伴组成：- EvanSTEM这是一个校内/校外时间（OST）计划，以提高埃文斯顿谁表现不佳或在干代表性不足的学生的访问和参与。McGaw YMCA由12，000个家庭组成，为20，000名个人提供服务，并在安全的社区氛围中支持技术和创客空间活动（MetaMedia）。社区教育伙伴关系办公室（OCEP）在西北大学，为大学和社区提供支持，合作研究，教学和服务举措。这种伙伴关系将通过埃文斯顿所有年轻人的STEAM（科学，技术，工程，艺术和数学）兴趣开发一种新的学习方法。该项目名为“全民利益”（I4 All），并建立在两位主要研究者（PI）的现有研究成果和领先合作伙伴（EvanSTEM和MetaMedia以OCEP为创始合作伙伴）之间的先前合作关系的基础上。I4 All还汇集了埃文斯顿学区，OST供应商，城市和埃文斯顿的西北大学作为参与者。 特别是该项目建立在PI Pinkard的学习城市项目和合作PI史蒂文斯的FUSE工作室项目的基础上。这两个项目都有明确的目标，以扩大对STEAM追求的参与，这是通过I4 All显着推进的目标。在这个项目中，I4 All基础设施将使用定量指标进行评估，这些指标将告诉研究人员埃文斯顿青年是否以及在多大程度上找到和发展他们的STEAM兴趣，以及I4 All基础设施是否支持更公平地向青年分配机会。研究人员还将对青少年兴趣发展进行深入的定性案例研究。这些纵向研究将补充参与的定量指标，并给出将用于通知I4 All变化的措施，作为PI基于设计的实施研究方法的一部分。在I4 All中产生的工件包括FUSE工作室项目，软件基础设施，以指导学生通过OST和校内活动，并为学生提供有关参与I4 All活动的物流的可操作信息，以及所有利益相关者可用于评估I4 All有效性的数据。此外，这项研究有可能提供这种模式扩展到不同的社区，利用OST网络在一个社区开始提供专业发展更广泛的整个学区，并作为其他地区的典范。这些研究结果也可能影响当地学校官员和社区组织制定的战略和政策，这些战略和政策涉及如何共同努力创造当地学习环境，以创建一个正式和非正式学习空间支持和加强STEAM知识的生态系统。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。

项目成果

Mentors’ Learning Support Roles and Their Impact On Girls’ Identity Imaginations.

导师的学习支持角色及其对女孩身份想象的影响。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2021 International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting
• 作者: Thompson, N.;Ju, B.;Nacu, D.;Erete, S.;Pinkard, N.
• 通讯作者: Pinkard, N.