Blossom STEM: A Bilingual Parent-Child Co-Reading Platform for Promoting a Growth Mindset towards STEM Interest among English Language Learners (ELL) and Their Caregivers

项目摘要 英语学习者(ELL)是不断增长的人口，在科学方面服务不足， 技术、工程和数学(STEM)资源。在双语STEM材料的有限供应中， 大多数都遵循过时的并排展示的英语内容及其外语翻译。 除了许多学术和社会经济障碍之外，ELL人群还必须与 有损科技教育成就的陈规陋习和误解。此外，以结果为基础 到目前为止，研究集中在STEM的教育和职业成就作为终点，并已 对导致这些问题的潜在心理和行为机制产生了有限的洞察 结果。该项目将为4至7岁年龄段的Ells开发急需的资源， 以互动STEM为主题的故事书形式，促进亲子共同阅读活动。互动型 故事书将以五种母语(L1)和音频混合比例的分级双语文本和音频为特色 英语(L2)，以适应代际语言流利性的不同变化。与文化相关 以成人和儿童读者的相关榜样为特色，并融入与STEM相关的故事 主题将被设计以解决刻板印象并鼓励有限制的父母的参与 英语熟练。影响ELL学生STEM结果的机制--例如赋权 让父母参与培养孩子的STEM兴趣，鼓励他们在 所有学生关于自己的智力--将被烘焙到电子书的内容和干预设计中。这 该项目的目标是创建一个互动电子书语料库，将英语和西班牙语混合在一起，并评估 该系统在第一阶段的可行性，然后在第二阶段的有效性和可持续性，以增加儿童 在STEM主题方面的感知能力和亲和力以及他们的家人对他们学习和 对STEM主题事项的兴趣。

Project Summary English language learners (ELLs) are a growing population and underserved with regards to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) resources. Of the limited supply of bilingual STEM materials, the majority follows an outdated, side-by-side presentation of English content and its foreign-language translation. On top of the many academic and socioeconomic obstacles, the ELL population must also contend with stereotypes and misperceptions that are detrimental to STEM achievement. Furthermore, outcome-based research thus far has concentrated on STEM educational and career achievement as the endpoint and has produced limited insight as to the underlying psychological and behavioral mechanisms that lead to those outcomes. This project will develop a much-needed resource for ELLs in the four-to-seven age segment, in the form of interactive STEM-themed storybooks that promote parent-child co-reading activities. The interactive storybooks will feature graduated bilingual text and audio in five blended ratios of the native language (L1) and English (L2) to accommodate the diverse variabilities of intergenerational language fluency. Culturally relevant stories that feature relatable role models for both the adult and child readers and infused with STEM-related themes will be engineered to tackle stereotypes and encourage involvement from parents who are limited English proficient. Mechanisms that influence ELL students’ STEM outcomes -- such as empowerment of parents to be involved in nurturing their children’s STEM interest and encouraging incremental beliefs among ELL students about their own intelligence -- will be baked into the eBook content and intervention design. This project aims to create a corpus of interactive eBooks that are blended in the English-Spanish pair and evaluate the system’s feasibility in Phase I and then efficacy and sustainability in Phase II for increasing children’s perceived competence in and affinity for STEM subject matters and their families’ support for their learning and interest in STEM subject matters.