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Developing STEM Identity in Rural Audiences through Community-based Engineering Design

通过基于社区的工程设计培养农村受众的 STEM 认同

基本信息

批准号：
1949454
负责人：
Tameshia Baldwin
金额：
$ 140.16万
依托单位：
North Carolina State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1949454&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Developing STEM Identity Rural Audiences

项目摘要

This project will develop and study an innovative community-based engineering education model to support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge, identity, and career awareness of rural, economically disadvantaged students. The project leverages strategic partnerships between North Carolina State University, Edgecombe School District, and local industry to create an Engineering Design and Exploration course. The course will engage middle school students (grades 6 to 8) in authentic engineering design experiences built around advanced manufacturing technologies and processes utilized by local manufacturing facilities. In the course, students will research, design, and build advanced manufacturing systems that simulate actual industrial manufacturing processes. Students will be supported by mentoring from undergraduate engineering students from underrepresented groups and by STEM industry professionals at North Carolina State University and by STEM industry professionals. This project will help prepare economically disadvantaged middle school youth to more fully participate in STEM and career pathways by providing technology-rich, hands-on STEM experiences in real-world contexts. These experiences will also prepare students to research, design, and solve problems in STEM contexts. The research will examine how an engineering-focused community-based instructional model can help develop rural students' interest in STEM. The team will use a quasi-experimental mixed-methods embedded design to answer three research questions. 1) How and to what degree does the engineering design-focused program impact students' disciplinary-based knowledge and practices in STEM and career awareness? 2) How and to what degree does the engineering design-focused program impact students' STEM interests, STEM identity, and STEM self-efficacy? 3) How and to what degree does the program impact teacher content and pedagogical knowledge and awareness of STEM educational pathways and occupations? Research data to be collected include student interviews, surveys, and artifacts created by students during the course. Changes in students' content knowledge and career awareness will be measured through state-wide science test scores, pre to post-surveys on STEM knowledge and skills, and on a pre to post career awareness surveys. Interest in STEM, STEM identity, and STEM self-efficacy will be determined through student artifacts, observations, and focus groups. The team will also examine teacher STEM knowledge, pedagogy, and STEM career awareness through pre to post surveys and focus groups. Project evaluation will examine the overall achievement of program goals and objectives. Project results will be disseminated widely at national conferences, through submissions to refereed journals, and on Edgecombe County public schools websites.This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase youth motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).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.

该项目将开发和研究一种创新的基于社区的工程教育模式，以支持农村经济困难学生的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）知识，身份和职业意识。该项目利用北卡罗来纳州州立大学、埃奇科姆学区和当地行业之间的战略合作伙伴关系，创建工程设计和勘探课程。该课程将让中学生（6至8年级）参与围绕当地制造工厂使用的先进制造技术和工艺而建立的真实工程设计体验。在课程中，学生将研究，设计和构建模拟实际工业制造过程的先进制造系统。学生将得到来自代表性不足群体的本科工程专业学生和北卡罗来纳州州立大学的STEM行业专业人士以及STEM行业专业人士的指导。该项目将帮助经济困难的中学生做好准备，通过在现实世界中提供技术丰富的实践经验，更充分地参与STEM和职业道路。这些经验也将帮助学生在STEM环境中研究，设计和解决问题。该研究将探讨以工程为中心的社区教学模式如何帮助培养农村学生对STEM的兴趣。该团队将使用准实验混合方法嵌入式设计来回答三个研究问题。1)以工程设计为重点的课程如何以及在多大程度上影响学生在STEM和职业意识方面的学科知识和实践？2)以工程设计为重点的课程如何以及在多大程度上影响学生的STEM兴趣，STEM身份和STEM自我效能？3)该计划如何以及在多大程度上影响教师内容、教学知识以及对STEM教育途径和职业的认识？收集的研究数据包括学生访谈，调查和学生在课程中创建的工件。学生内容知识和职业意识的变化将通过全州范围内的科学考试成绩、STEM知识和技能的前后调查以及职业意识的前后调查来衡量。STEM，STEM身份和STEM自我效能感的兴趣将通过学生工件，观察和焦点小组来确定。该小组还将通过前后调查和焦点小组检查教师STEM知识，教学法和STEM职业意识。项目评估将检查项目目标和目的的总体实现情况。项目成果将在全国性会议上广泛传播，通过提交给评审期刊，并在埃奇科姆县公立学校网站上。该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地了解和促进提高青年在科学，技术，工程，或数学（STEM）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。