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

这项研究的主要目的是记录人们如何在真实的时间里学习COVID-19大流行的科学知识，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着时间的推移而变化。这项研究的目的是产生额外的见解，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科学的方式是如何通过他们可以获得和利用的信息来源来介导的，以及是什么支持他们这样做。该研究将进一步记录人们如何利用他们对COVID-19的理解，以及其他形式的知识和决策中的担忧。这项研究可能有助于帮助公众了解信息失败的结构点可能发生的关键作用。它还可以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 Dear Colleague关于COVID-19大流行病的信函而提交的。该奖项是由AISL和ECR计划在学习研究部，使用冠状病毒援助，救济和经济安全（CARES）法案的资金。本研究将利用一个概念框架的结果学习和叙事研究的方法框架。密歇根州兰辛和华盛顿的西雅图的60名参与者将在一年的时间里参加周期性访谈、焦点小组对话和经验抽样方法。将收集和分析参与者在学习中命名和使用的文件和资源。重点将放在以下领域的科学学习：a）SARS-CoV-2的科学以及病毒和疾病之间的关系，B）病毒传播，以及c）起源，复制和传播。一个关键重点还将是人们在对这一流行病形成认识和作出决定时如何使用科学数据和循证解释。这项研究是紧迫和及时的，因为预计COVID-19大流行将在大约18个月内分多波发生。洞察力可以产生对快速科学学习，政策战略，校本实践和资源的基本理解，供当前和未来的浪潮中使用。社会科学危机对人的影响各不相同，弱势群体感受到的影响更大。因此，在国际健康危机的背景下，低收入者和家庭在不断变化的数据中进行自我教育，迫切需要对他们的因素和经验进行调查。该奖项体现了NSF的法定使命，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.