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Investigating Measurement of STEM Engagement and Advocacy in Older Adults.

调查老年人 STEM 参与和宣传的衡量。

基本信息

批准号：
1906720
负责人：
Jennifer Mangold
金额：
$ 29.81万
依托单位：
University of California-Berkeley
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：
2019-09-01 至 2022-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1906720&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Investigating Measurement STEM Engagement Advocacy

项目摘要

While prior research has explored the reasons adults seek learning opportunities, little is known about the factors that moderate older adults' desire to participate in particular learning experiences. This study will contribute to understanding strategies that engage older adults in STEM learning in informal settings. The specific informal STEM Learning (ISL) experience to be studied here involves the innovative use of a carefully structured multigenerational team engineering design challenge that incorporates the engineering design process, recognized as integrative approach to STEM. The project will develop and pilot new tools to measure the impacts of the ISL experience on older adults. The work will ultimately generate new knowledge that supports general measurement practices through the rigorous, systematic development of measures of older adult learning. During the 18-month pilot study, the team will: (a) develop and test methods for measuring engagement in informal STEM learning and STEM advocacy in adults 50+ years of age; and (b) explore factors that lead to the engagement of this population in ISL and that moderate the outcome of enhanced STEM advocacy. For research purposes, engagement is being defined as focus, participation, and persistence on a task. STEM advocacy is defined as a stance toward personal actions that supports or promotes a cause or policy. The study design includes use of an intergenerational team engineering design challenge involving 48 older adults as the focal ISL activity of the research. Findings from this pilot study will inform a future large-scale study of ISL environments, including specific instructional practices and resulting outcomes, for older adult learning. Defining the construct of STEM advocacy and examining its validity as a potentially measurable outcome will better position the field to design and evaluate more effective older adult learning experiences. Project results will be disseminated widely through the literature on ISL, adult education and research tool development, as well as existing practitioner networks. The project's connection with networks of lifelong learning institutes creates additional infrastructure opportunities for ISL experiences, including the broader use of intergenerational learning methods and informal STEM design challenges. This Pilot & Feasibility study is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.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.

虽然先前的研究已经探讨了成年人寻求学习机会的原因，但对调节老年人参与特定学习经历的愿望的因素知之甚少。这项研究将有助于理解在非正式环境中让老年人参与STEM学习的策略。这里要研究的具体非正式STEM学习（ISL）经验涉及创新使用精心构建的多代团队工程设计挑战，该挑战包含工程设计过程，被认为是STEM的综合方法。该项目将开发和试行新的工具，以衡量ISL经验对老年人的影响。这项工作最终将产生新的知识，通过严格，系统地发展老年人学习的措施，支持一般的测量实践。在为期18个月的试点研究中，该团队将：（a）开发和测试用于测量50岁以上成年人参与非正式STEM学习和STEM宣传的方法;（B）探索导致这一人群参与ISL的因素，以及缓和加强STEM宣传的结果。为了研究的目的，敬业度被定义为专注，参与和坚持一项任务。STEM倡导被定义为对支持或促进事业或政策的个人行动的立场。研究设计包括使用代际团队工程设计挑战，涉及48名老年人作为研究的重点ISL活动。这项试点研究的结果将为未来大规模的ISL环境研究提供信息，包括老年人学习的具体教学实践和结果。定义STEM倡导的结构，并将其有效性作为一个潜在的可衡量的结果进行检查，将更好地定位该领域，以设计和评估更有效的老年人学习经验。项目成果将通过关于国际空间学习、成人教育和研究工具开发的文献以及现有的从业者网络广泛传播。该项目与终身学习机构网络的联系为ISL体验创造了更多的基础设施机会，包括更广泛地使用代际学习方法和非正式的STEM设计挑战。这项试点可行性研究由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该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。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验，推进创新研究和评估的STEM学习在非正式环境中，并发展的理解，更深层次的学习参与者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准的支持。