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

本研究的主要目标是记录人们如何实时学习COVID-19大流行的科学，他们如何激活这些科学知识以做出明智的决策，以及这些过程如何随时间变化。这项研究的目的是产生更多的见解，这种学习是如何形成的公平问题和背景因素。例如，研究人员将记录人们学习COVID-19科学的方式如何受到他们可以获得和利用的信息来源的影响，以及支持他们这样做的因素。这项研究将进一步记录人们如何在决策中利用他们对COVID-19的理解以及其他形式的知识和关切。这项研究可能在帮助公众理解信息失败的结构点可能发生的地方起着至关重要的作用。它还可能揭示公众在何处以及如何参与或抵制社区行动战略，以减轻传播和痛苦，通过他们何时、如何以及为什么收集、分享和理解科学数据。本RAPID是为回应NSF关于COVID-19大流行的致同事信而提交的。该奖项由学习研究部的AISL和ECR项目颁发，资金来自《冠状病毒援助、救济和经济安全（关怀）法案》。本研究将借鉴结果性学习的概念框架和叙事探究的方法论框架。密歇根州兰辛市和华盛顿州西雅图市的60名参与者将在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。参与者在学习过程中提到和使用的文件和资源将被收集和分析。重点关注以下几个方面的科学学习：a) SARS-CoV-2的科学以及病毒与疾病的关系；b)病毒传播；c)起源、复制和传播。一个重点还将是人们在就大流行发展理解和作出决定时如何使用科学数据和基于证据的解释。这项研究是紧急和及时的，因为预计2019冠状病毒病大流行将在大约18个月内分多波发生。洞察可能会产生对快速科学学习、政策策略、学校实践和资源的基本理解，以便在当前和未来的浪潮中使用。社会科学危机对人们的影响是不同的，弱势群体感受到的影响更大。因此，这项研究将解决调查低收入个人和家庭的因素和经验的迫切要求，这些低收入个人和家庭在国际卫生危机期间试图对不断变化的数据进行自我教育。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.