RAPID: How People Learn Rapidly: COVID-19 as a Crisis of Socioscientific Understanding and Educational Equity

这项研究的主要目标是记录人们如何实时学习新冠肺炎大流行的科学知识，他们如何激活这些科学知识做出明智的决策，以及这些过程如何随着时间的推移而变化。这项研究旨在就股权问题和背景因素如何塑造这种学习提供更多的见解。例如，研究人员将记录人们学习新冠肺炎科学的方式是如何受到他们可以获得和利用的信息来源的影响，以及是什么支持他们这样做。这项研究将进一步记录人们如何在决策过程中利用他们对新冠肺炎的理解，以及其他形式的知识和担忧。这项研究可能对帮助公众理解信息失灵的结构性点可能发生在哪里起到至关重要的作用。它还可能揭示公众在哪里以及如何参与或抵制社区行动战略，以通过何时、如何以及为什么收集、分享和理解科学数据来减轻传播和痛苦。这份快速报告是对美国国家科学基金会关于新冠肺炎大流行的亲爱同事的信的回应。该奖项是由学习研究部的AISL和ECR项目利用冠状病毒援助、救济和经济安全(CARE)法案提供的资金颁发的。本研究将借鉴结果学习的概念框架和叙事研究的方法论框架。密歇根州兰辛和华盛顿州西雅图的60名参与者将在为期一年的时间里参加周期性访谈、焦点小组对话和体验抽样方法。将收集和分析参与者在学习中点名和使用的文件和资源。将注重以下领域的科学学习作为主要重点：a)SARS-CoV-2的科学以及病毒与疾病之间的关系；b)病毒传播；c)起源、复制和传播。一个关键的焦点还将是人们在发展对大流行的理解和做出决策时如何使用科学数据和基于证据的解释。这项研究是紧迫和及时的，因为新冠肺炎大流行预计将在大约18个月内分多次出现。洞察力可能会产生关于快速科学学习、政策战略、校本实践和资源的基本理解，以便在当前和未来的浪潮中使用。社会科学危机对人的影响是不同的，弱势群体感受到的影响更大。因此，这项研究将解决对低收入个人和家庭的因素和经验进行调查的迫切呼吁，这些低收入个人和家庭试图在国际健康危机期间教育自己不断变化的数据。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The primary objective of this study is to document how people learn the science of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time, how they activate this scientific knowledge towards informed decision making, and how these processes change over time. This study is intended to produce additional insights on how such learning is shaped by equity concerns and contextual factors. For example, researchers will document how the ways in which people learn the science of COVID-19 are mediated by the sources of information they have access to and leverage, as well as what supports them in doing so. The research will further document how people leverage their understandings of COVID-19, alongside other forms of knowledge and concerns in their decision-making. This study may serve a crucial role in aiding the public understanding of where structural points of informational failure might occur. It may also reveal where and how the public engages or resists community action strategies to mitigate spread and suffering through when, how and why they gather, share, and make sense of scientific data. This RAPID was submitted in response to the NSF Dear Colleague letter related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This award is made by the AISL and ECR programs in the Division of Research on Learning, using funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This research will draw upon a conceptual framework of consequential learning and a methodological framework of narrative inquiry. Sixty participants in Lansing, Michigan and Seattle, Washington will participate over the course of one year in cyclical interviews, focus group conversations and experience sampling approaches. Documents and resources named and used by the participants in their learning will be collected and analyzed. Attention will be paid to science learning in the following areas as the primary focus: a) the science of SARS-CoV-2 and the relationship between virus and disease, b) viral transmission, and c) origination, replication and spread. A key focus will also be how people use scientific data and evidence-based explanations when developing understandings and making decisions with respect to the pandemic. This research is urgent and timely because the COVID-19 pandemic is projected to occur in multiple waves over approximately 18 months. Insights may produce basic understanding about rapid science learning, policy strategies, school-based practices and resources for use within current and future waves. Socioscientific crises differentially impact people, with effects felt more significantly by vulnerable people. Thus, this study will address the urgent call for investigation into factors and experiences of low-income individuals and families who are trying to educate themselves on continually changing data during an international health crisis.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.