A Culturally-Responsive Maker Program Designed to Develop the STEM Interest, Self-Efficacy and Science Identity of Black Girls

一个文化响应型创客计划，旨在培养黑人女孩的 STEM 兴趣、自我效能和科学认同

• 批准号: 2327579
• 负责人: LaShawnda Lindsay
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327579&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culturally; Responsive; Maker; Program; Designed

Black Girls Create (BGC) is a program that uses maker pedagogy, social history (i.e., Black women’s contributions in STEM), culturally responsive pedagogy, and mentoring to engage Black girls in STEM. For the project, culturally responsive making is operationally defined as the use of cultural knowledge and maker technologies to create, design, and produce artifacts that are related to a particular concept, theme, or person. The project will conduct a feasibility research study that investigates how engagement in BGC affects participants' STEM interest, STEM confidence, and racial and gender identities. In the project, participants will discover how Black women have made an impact in STEM fields and will learn how to digitally create cultural artifacts/wearable art related to their discoveries. Approximately 120 middle school girls in grades 6-8 (8 groups of 15 participants each) from underserved neighborhoods will be recruited for participation in this two-year study. Each group will meet for 3 hours per week over an 8-week period. Instructional materials from this research will be made freely available online so that they can be adapted and used at other formal and informal educational institutions that seek to garner interest and access to STEM learning for Black girls and women.A pre- and post-test, quasi-experimental design will be used to research the program’s influence on participants’ self-efficacy, racial identity, and gender identity. Lagged regression models that control for students’ age, race/ethnicity, and pre-survey scores will be used to examine growth in each of the four outcomes. Once all of the participants in the groups have completed BGC, data from all groups will be combined to increase power and thereby detect statistically meaningful differences in pre- and post-survey scores. In addition, variables representing attendance and program engagement will be entered into the model to examine whether students who are highly engaged in BGC programming exhibit more growth in the four outcomes. Qualitative data will be derived from students' journal entries as well as focus group interviews. Weekly journals will be used to gather data about the context and experiences of participants as they unfold throughout the program. Semi-structured focus groups will center around the usefulness of skills and knowledge gained from the program activities, significant experiences with peers and program staff, the opportunity to learn about Black women STEM progenitors, and learning how to make digitally fabricated artifacts. NVIVO, a computer software program, will be used as a tool to support the analysis of the rich, text-based information resulting from the journals and focus group narratives. This feasibilty research 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.

黑人女孩Create（BGC）是一项计划，该计划使用制造者教育学，社会历史（即黑人女性在STEM中的贡献），具有文化反应敏感的教学法以及心理吸引黑人女孩参与STEM。对于该项目，文化响应迅速的制作在运营上定义为使用文化知识和制造者技术来创建，设计和生产与特定概念，主题或人相关的文物。该项目将进行一项可行性研究，调查BGC参与如何影响参与者的STEM兴趣，STEM信心以及种族和性别认同。在该项目中，参与者将发现黑人妇女如何在STEM领域产生影响，并将学习如何以数字方式创建与其发现相关的文化文物/可穿戴艺术。来自服务不足的社区的6 - 8年级的大约120名中学女生（每组少15名参与者）每组每周将在8周的时间内开会3个小时。这项研究的教学材料将在网上免费提供，以便可以在其他正式和非正式的教育机构中对其进行调整和使用，这些机构旨在为黑人女孩和妇女提供有趣并获得STEM学习的机会。测试前和测试后的实验设计将用于研究该计划对参与者的自我效能感，种族认同以及性别认同的影响。控制学生的年龄，种族/种族和调查前分数的滞后回归模型将用于检查四个结果中的每个成果中的每个成果。一旦小组中的所有参与者都完成了BGC，所有小组的数据将组合起来以增加功率，从而发现统计学前和调查后分数的有意义的差异。此外，代表出勤和计划参与的变量将被输入模型，以检查高度从事BGC编程的学生是否在四个成果中表现出更多的增长。定性数据将来自学生的日记条目以及焦点小组访谈。每周期刊将用于收集有关参与者在整个计划中展开的上下文和经验的数据。半结构化的焦点小组将围绕从计划活动中获得的技能和知识的实用性，与同行和计划人员的重要经验，了解黑人女性STEM祖先的机会，以及学习如何制作数字化的工件。 NVivo是一种计算机软件程序，将用作支持对日记和焦点小组叙事产生的富文本信息的分析的工具。这个艰苦的研究项目是由前进的非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助的，该计划旨在（a）提高对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解； （b）提供了多种途径，以扩大进入和参与STEM学习经验的途径； （c）对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究； （d）在非正式环境中吸引所有年龄段的公众学习STEM。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。