Using Child-Centered Qualitative and Multi-Method Approaches to Investigate Childrens Understanding of Racial Diversity Cues in STEM-focused Educational Television

促进对STEM的参与对于实现NSF的目标和造福国家具有重要意义。密歇根州立大学旨在通过确定儿童对教育电视节目中种族多样性治疗方法的理解，提高对以STEM为重点的儿童媒体节目的影响的了解。专业发展计划将通过探索儿童对多样性线索的关注和解释来培养研究能力，然后建立一项多方法研究，探索观看不同的STEM肖像和对谁属于STEM的看法之间的关系。通过提高有关如何创建STEM媒体的知识，以真实地代表历史上被边缘化社区的儿童，该项目旨在积极影响人们对STEM的兴趣和参与，同时培养PI使用以儿童为中心的公平做法进行教育研究的能力。教育媒体可以作为STEM早期学习的强大工具。该项目旨在了解儿童如何在STEM方案编制中接受多样性的信息。该项目以修养理论和社会认知理论为基本框架，融入理性行动理论，以实现增加STEM参与度的社会目标。该项目旨在与家长和儿童一起使用定性方法，探索儿童对STEM重点媒体的看法。然后将使用定量的内容分析和访谈来考察STEM、STEM身份发展和STEM的归属感的视角。将通过方法学培训机构、定性研究讲习班和导师培训来建设研究能力。将通过形成性和终结性评估对该项目进行评估。该项目由NSF的STEM教育研究中的EHR核心研究能力建设计划(ECR：BCSER)支持，该计划旨在建设研究人员开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力。该奖项反映了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。

Advancing participation in STEM is significant for meeting NSF’s goals and benefits the nation. Michigan State University aims to improve understanding of the impacts of STEM-focused children’s media programming by identifying children’s understanding of racial diversity cures in educational television shows. The professional development plan will build research capacity by exploring children's attention to and interpretations of diversity cues and then building a multi-method study that explores the relationship between viewing diverse STEM portrayals and the perceptions of who belongs in STEM. Through advancing knowledge of how to create STEM media that authentically represents children from historically marginalized communities, the project aims to positively impact interest and engagement in STEM, while building the PI’s capacity to conduct education research using child-centered, equitable practices. Educational media can serve as a powerful tool for early STEM learning. This project seeks to understand how children receive the messages of diversity in STEM programming. Using cultivation theory and social cognitive theory as foundational structures, the project incorporates theory of reasoned action to achieve the societal goal of increasing participation in STEM. The project aims to use qualitative methods with parents and children to explore children’s perspectives of STEM-focused media. Quantitative content analysis and interviews will then be used to examine perspectives of STEM, STEM identity development, and sense of belonging in STEM. Research capacity will be built through methodological training institutes, qualitative research workshops, and mentor training. The project will be evaluated through formative and summative assessments. The project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) program, which is designed to build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education research.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.