From Practice to Research: Engaging Science Communicators with Educational Research They Can Use

从实践到研究：让科学传播者参与他们可以使用的教育研究

• 批准号: 1854059
• 负责人: Philip Bell
• 金额: $ 14.91万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1854059&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Practice; Research; Engaging; Science; Communicators

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase student motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). The project will develop and investigate the viability of a new kind of professional resource designed to inform the practical work of scientists, science communicators, and informal Science, Technology, Engine (STEM) educators undertaking efforts to engage children, youth, families and adults in STEM academic, career, and lifelong learning pathways. Scientists, science communicators and formal and informal science educators who engage the public with STEM (hereinafter "STEM communicators") seldom have formal training in education, and frequently are unfamiliar with well-established evidence-based approaches that are key to inclusive and effective pedagogies of engagement. The Research+Practice Collaboratory of the University of Washington has developed a new professional resource designed for K-12 leaders and educators called the practice brief, which has been widely disseminated and taken up in NGSS implementation efforts across the country. The project will develop and pilot a suite of approximately 20 practice briefs with and for STEM communicators. The results of this project will be (a) the documentation of research interests and needs of informal science eductors, developers, designers, science communicators and others (b) the establishment of evidence for whether or not the practice brief model is valuable to STEM educators and worthy of extension to new topics and uses. The tools produced by this exploratory project can support the practices of these informal STEM educators, thus impacting the quality of programs they offer the public. Additionally, like their K-12 counterpart practice briefs, the proposed new set of briefs for STEM educators and others can potentially be scaled, through partnerships with large national associations such as the Association of Science-Technology Center, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Alliance for Broadening Participation, and others, to inform the diverse science communication workforce, and to strengthen the quality and outcomes of their broader impacts work focused on youth engagement towards STEM workforce development.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.

该项目将推进学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的实践。该项目将开发和调查一种新型专业资源的可行性，旨在为科学家，科学传播者和非正式科学，技术，引擎（STEM）教育工作者的实际工作提供信息，这些教育工作者正在努力让儿童，青年，家庭和成人参与STEM学术，职业和终身学习途径。科学家、科学传播者以及让公众参与STEM的正式和非正式科学教育工作者（以下简称“STEM传播者”）很少接受过正式的教育培训，而且往往不熟悉公认的循证方法，而这些方法是包容性和有效参与的关键。华盛顿大学的研究+实践合作实验室为K-12领导者和教育工作者开发了一种新的专业资源，称为实践简报，已在全国范围内广泛传播并在NGSS实施工作中得到采用。该项目将与STEM传播者一起开发和试点一套约20个实践简报。该项目的成果将是：（a）记录非正式科学教育者、开发者、设计者、科学传播者和其他人的研究兴趣和需求;（B）证明实践简介模式对STEM教育者是否有价值，是否值得推广到新的主题和用途。 这个探索性项目产生的工具可以支持这些非正式STEM教育工作者的实践，从而影响他们为公众提供的课程质量。此外，像他们的K-12对应实践简报一样，拟议的STEM教育工作者和其他人的新简报集可以通过与大型国家协会（如科学技术中心协会，美国科学促进协会，国家扩大参与联盟等）的合作关系进行扩展，以告知多样化的科学传播工作者，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。