A conference to explore theories regarding how moral motives move people from STEM information learning to STEM-informed action

非正式的学习机构——博物馆、图书馆、新闻机构和其他机构——致力于向他们的听众介绍各种主题上迅速形成的科学共识。这一信息往往促使人们采取行动，如在大流行期间保持社交距离。是什么促使人们根据这些信息采取行动（或不采取行动）？当所推荐的行为可以为自己带来好结果或坏结果时，信息需要符合防止坏结果和/或促进好结果的动机倾向。最近的理论表明，对于影响他人的推荐行为，有类似的动机：家庭、朋友、邻居，甚至社会和生物界。这个小型的虚拟会议将汇集STEM研究人员和实践者，对道德动机模型进行跨学科和实践性的批评，并讨论其对与STEM主题相关的行动的影响。具体来说，会议将使用由NSF RAPID资助（#2027939）收集的数据，这些数据将人们的新闻消费，他们对COVID-19预防建议的遵守情况，以及他们对推荐行为（从自我到社会）保护或促进其福祉的判断联系起来。这个小型虚拟会议将招募大约16名与会者，其中包括跨学科学者，他们的工作涉及STEM非正式学习背景下的社会责任，以及来自科学中心、图书馆、动物园和媒体等广泛部门的从业者。个别学科将包括人类学，心理学，跨学科领域的学习科学和判断和决策。会议策略将包括同步、异步和小组协作，以及整个小组讨论。会议活动将在8周内展开。会议的结构松散地基于开放空间技术方法（即：General &amp； Lantelme, 2014, Owen 1997）。为了在这些不同的非正式学习部门建立能力，与会者将把关于道德动机的影响提炼成实际的建议，发表在会议论文集中，其中将包括一份关于初步和合作修订的模型的报告。诉讼程序的可编辑版本将允许注册从业者进一步批评和发展该建议。会议记录将以简短的知识共享电子书形式发布，副本和链接将在推进非正式STEM教育中心的网站上以及通过所有参与者的专业研究和从业者协会发布。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在(a)推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解；(b)提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验的机会；(c)推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估；(d)让所有年龄段的公众在非正式环境中学习STEM。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。

Informal learning institutions--museums, libraries, news organizations, and others--work to inform their audiences about the rapidly emerging scientific consensus on various topics. Often this information invites action such as social distancing during a pandemic. What motivates people to act upon that information (or not)? When recommended actions can yield good or bad outcomes for oneself, the information needs to fit with motivational tendencies towards preventing bad outcomes and/or promoting good outcomes. Recent theories indicate similar motives for recommended actions that affect others: family, friends, neighbors, and up the scale to the societal and the biological world. This small virtual conference will bring together STEM researchers and practitioners to offer a transdisciplinary and practically minded critique of the model of moral motives and discuss its implications for actions related to STEM topics. Specifically, the conference will use data collected by NSF RAPID grant (#2027939) that connects people’s news consumption, their compliance with COVID-19 prevention recommendations, and their judgments of whose wellbeing (from self to society) recommended behaviors protect or promote. This small virtual conference will recruit approximately 16 attendees including transdisciplinary scholars whose work addresses social responsibility in the context of STEM informal learning and practitioners from a broad range of sectors including science centers, libraries, zoos, and the media. Individual disciplines will include anthropology, psychology, the interdisciplinary fields of the learning sciences and judgement and decision-making. The conference strategy will include synchronous, asynchronous, and small group collaborations in addition to full-group discussion. Conference activities will spread over 8 weeks. The structure of the conference is loosely based on the Open Space Technology approach (i.e.: General & Lantelme, 2014, Owen 1997). To build capacity in these various informal learning sectors participants will distill implications about moral motives into practical advice to publish in the conference proceedings that will include a report on the initial and collaboratively revised models. An editable version of the proceedings will allow registered practitioners to further critique and develop that advice. The conference proceedings will be distributed as a short Creative Commons e-book with copies and links distributed on the website of the Center for Advancing Informal STEM Education , and through all the participant’s professional research and practitioner societies.This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.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.