RAPID: Using remote diary methods to understand how families navigate COVID-19-driven schooling at home

RAPID：使用远程日记方法了解家庭如何在家中进行由 COVID-19 驱动的学校教育

• 批准号: 2028082
• 负责人: Brigid Barron
• 金额: $ 19.97万
• 依托单位: Stanford 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: 2020-05-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Using; remote; diary; methods

It is estimated that over 95% of all school children across the country are out of the classroom due to social distancing mandates in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost overnight, families have had to develop and support new practices for learning at home as districts scramble to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of their communities. It is essential to collect data now to develop a deeper understanding of how schools and families are adapting to these changes and will continue to do so in coming weeks/months - the troubles they encounter, and the solutions they generate. Retrospective accounts may mask critical features of what was experienced, minimizing the country’s capacity to conceptualize and build more robust, equitable and transformative learning ecologies for the future. Emphasizing an equity approach to solution development, this research will document how families engage in creative practices to generate powerful learning based on local needs, values, contexts, and histories in this present crisis. It will address the following questions: (1) What resources are schools providing and how are parents navigating and extending these resources to sustain their child’s learning? (2) How are families exploring science and math concepts related to the pandemic? (3) How are parents and families learning to adapt (e.g. communication with teachers; broader social networks) and what challenges do they face (e.g. subscription costs; reliable Internet)? (4) How are digital resources for STEM, curated by the research team, utilized for learning? Emergency school closures are exposing significant gaps in access to the Internet and communication devices, and the capacity of parents/caregivers and communities to capitalize on technology to sustain health-relevant learning in a time of crisis. This project will use a novel, remote-diary tool based on a smartphone-enabled data collection platform, to reach families across the country. Mobile-phone-enabled remote diary tools make it possible to reach families who are under-connected, not just those with robust technical infrastructure. The data collected will lay the groundwork for creating new socio-technical support systems informed by diverse families’ experiences, as the crisis unfolds. Approximately 200 parents with school age children (early and upper elementary grades) living at home will be recruited. This study and a subsequent virtual workshop with other researchers who are also using remote methods to study learning will help establish a broader research agenda to specify the conditions under which socio-technical systems productively augment a family’s capacity to innovate and learn when traditional co-located school settings disappear. It will advance our understanding of how human learning adapts to unexpectedly changed learning environments. This study draws on advances in remote data collection and new analytical tools for innovation in research design.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.

据估计，由于应对 COVID-19 大流行的社会疏远规定，全国超过 95% 的学童无法上学。几乎在一夜之间，随着各地区争先恐后地满足其社区的学术、社会和情感需求，家庭必须开发和支持在家学习的新做法。 现在必须收集数据，以更深入地了解学校和家庭如何适应这些变化，并将在未来几周/几个月继续这样做——他们遇到的麻烦以及他们产生的解决方案。回顾性的叙述可能会掩盖所经历的关键特征，从而最大限度地降低该国为未来构思和建立更强大、公平和变革性学习生态系统的能力。 这项研究强调采用公平的方法来制定解决方案，将记录家庭如何根据当前危机中的当地需求、价值观、背景和历史进行创造性实践，以产生强有力的学习。它将解决以下问题：（1）学校提供哪些资源以及家长如何利用和扩展这些资源来维持孩子的学习？ (2) 家庭如何探索与大流行相关的科学和数学概念？ (3) 家长和家庭如何学习适应（例如与老师的沟通；更广泛的社交网络）以及他们面临哪些挑战（例如订阅费用；可靠的互联网）？ (4) 研究团队策划的 STEM 数字资源如何用于学习？学校紧急关闭暴露了互联网和通信设备的接入以及家长/照顾者和社区在危机时期利用技术维持与健康相关的学习的能力方面的巨大差距。该项目将使用一种基于智能手机数据收集平台的新型远程日记工具，覆盖全国各地的家庭。支持手机的远程日记工具可以覆盖那些缺乏联系的家庭，而不仅仅是那些拥有强大技术基础设施的家庭。随着危机的展开，收集到的数据将为根据不同家庭的经历创建新的社会技术支持系统奠定基础。将招募大约 200 名家中有学龄儿童（小学低年级和高年级）的家长。这项研究以及随后与其他也使用远程方法研究学习的研究人员举行的虚拟研讨会将有助于建立更广泛的研究议程，以明确当传统的同地学校环境消失时，社会技术系统能够有效增强家庭创新和学习能力的条件。它将增进我们对人类学习如何适应意外变化的学习环境的理解。这项研究利用了远程数据收集方面的进步和用于研究设计创新的新分析工具。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审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。