Engaging Secondary Female Students in Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing

让女中学生参与无处不在的智能和计算

• 批准号: 1949585
• 负责人: Mei Yang
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Nevada Las Vegas
• 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 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1949585&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Secondary; Female; Students; Ubiquitous

The underrepresentation of female students in computing and engineering fields can be attributed to different factors such as gender stereotypes or unfamiliarity with computing and engineering fields. This project will occur in a region in which many secondary female students have not had opportunities to take STEM and Information and Communication Technologies courses. The project aims to broaden the participation of secondary female students in STEM and Information and Communication Technologies fields by engaging them in ubiquitous intelligence and computing. The researchers will engage secondary female students through a five-week summer camp and STEM competition to work on smart city-related projects and applications such as smart citizen services, intelligent transportation system and intelligent energy planning. The project is expected to increase secondary female students’ knowledge, skills, and interests in STEM careers and contribute to the research on female students’ self-concept construction and motivations for learning STEM. The major objectives of the project are to: 1) enhance secondary female students’ academic self-concepts in computing and engineering fields through a constructivist learning environment; 2) enhance secondary female students’ knowledge, skills, and interests in these fields; 3) increase the number of secondary female students participating in STEM competitions; and 4) investigate the factors that influence female students’ career choices in STEM and Information and Communication Technologies fields. The project will involve 120 female students from Grades 6-11 in a five-week summer camp to learn Python and Arduino programming. They will then integrate these tools to develop ubiquitous intelligent systems in tiered teams co-mentored by college students and STEM teachers. In each year, a one-week mentor training workshop will be held to train the mentors, and a two-day Fall STEM Competition Workshop will be organized to promote STEM teachers to organize teams to participate in STEM competitions. A virtual learning cloud will be used to engage the students and mentors in building the learning community during and after the summer camp. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods including surveys, interviews, and analysis of student artifacts will be used to assess the impact of the project activities on secondary female students’ knowledge, skills, and interests in STEM fields and career choices. This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.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.

女生在计算机和工程领域的代表性不足可归因于不同的因素，如性别陈规定型观念或不熟悉计算机和工程领域。该项目将在一个许多中学女生没有机会参加STEM和信息和通信技术课程的地区开展。该项目旨在通过让中学女生参与泛在智能和计算，扩大她们在科学、技术、工程和数学以及信息和通信技术领域的参与。研究人员将通过为期五周的夏令营和STEM竞赛吸引中学女生参与智慧城市相关项目和应用，如智能公民服务，智能交通系统和智能能源规划。该项目预计将增加中学女生对STEM职业的知识、技能和兴趣，并有助于研究女生的自我概念建设和学习STEM的动机。计划的主要目的是：1）透过建构式学习环境，提升中学女生在计算机及工程范畴的学术自我概念; 2）提升中学女生在这些范畴的知识、技能及兴趣; 3）增加中学女生参与STEM比赛的人数;（4）调查影响女大学生在STEM和信息与通信技术领域职业选择的因素。该项目将邀请120名6-11年级的女学生参加为期五周的夏令营，学习Python和Arduino编程。 然后，他们将整合这些工具，在由大学生和STEM教师共同指导的分层团队中开发无处不在的智能系统。每年举办为期一周的导师培训工作坊，培训导师，并举办为期两天的秋季STEM竞赛工作坊，推动STEM教师组织团队参加STEM竞赛。 虚拟学习云将用于吸引学生和导师在夏令营期间和之后建立学习社区。将采用定量和定性相结合的研究方法，包括调查、访谈和对学生作品的分析，以评估项目活动对中学女生在STEM领域和职业选择方面的知识、技能和兴趣的影响。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划资助，该计划支持建立对实践，计划元素，背景和过程的理解的项目，有助于增加学生对科学，技术，工程，信息和通信技术（ICT）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

Engaging girls in learning engineering through building ubiquitous intelligent systems

通过构建无处不在的智能系统让女孩学习工程学

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: and Learning (TALE
• 作者: M. Yang, B. Tiwari

How Constructivist Learning Impacts Secondary Girls’ STEM Career Interests

建构主义学习如何影响中学女生 — STEM 职业兴趣

• DOI: 10.11114/jets.v12i2.6793
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Journal of Education and Training Studies
• 作者: Xu, Yonghong Jade;Yang, Mei;Zhang, Shaoan;Muthukumar, Venkatesan
• 通讯作者: Muthukumar, Venkatesan

Crochet: engaging secondary school girls in art for STEAM’s sake

钩针编织：为了 STEAM 让中学生参与艺术

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Science education international
• 作者: P. York, S. Zhang

Study of Imbedding Crochet into Girls’ STEM Learning

将钩针编织融入女孩 STEM 学习的研究

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: 2023 AERA Annual Meeting
• 作者: Portia York, Shaoan Zhang

Engaging Secondary Female Students in STEM Activities Through a Constructivist Learning Environment

通过建构主义学习环境让女中学生参与 STEM 活动

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: 2023 AERA Annual Meeting
• 作者: Daniel Unger, Jinkun Shen