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

Blossom STEM：一个双语亲子共读平台，旨在促进英语学习者（ELL）及其照顾者对 STEM 兴趣的成长心态

• 批准号: 10460234
• 负责人: WILLIAM Z TAN
• 金额: $ 77.64万
• 依托单位: TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10460234
• 关键词: Accounting; Achievement; Address; Administrator; Adult; Affinity; Age; Behavioral Mechanisms; Belief; Books; Caregivers; Child; Competence; Development; Education; Engineering; English Language; English Learner; Family; Flowers; Future; Generations; Growth; Heterogeneity; Household; Immigrant; Intelligence; Intervention; Investigation; Language; Language Development; Lead; Learning; Librarians; Libraries; Limited English Proficiency; Literature; Mainstreaming; Methods; Names; New York; Outcome; Parents; Perception; Performance; Phase; Population; Reader; Reading; Research; Research Personnel; Resource Sharing; Resources; STEM field; Schools; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Side; Stereotyping; Students; System; Testing; Text; Translations; Universities; University resources; achievement test; base; bilingualism; career; digital; electronic book; empowerment; ethnic minority; family support; foreign language; innovation; insight; interest; intergenerational; mathematical ability; parental involvement; pedagogy; peer; programs; prototype; psychologic; racial and ethnic; role model; skills; socioeconomics; success; teacher; therapy design

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 Of the limited supply of bilingual STEM materials, the majority follows an outdated, side-by-side presentation of English content and its foreign-language translation.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.

项目摘要 英语学习者（ELL）是人口的增长，并且在科学方面乏味， 技术，工程和数学（STEM）资源。在有限的双语茎材料的供应中， 大多数人是对英语内容及其外语翻译的过时的，并排的演讲。 除了许多学术和社会经济障碍之外，ELL人口还必须包含 刻板印象和误解对STEM成就有害。此外，基于结果 迄今为止的研究集中于STEM教育和职业成就作为终点，并且 对导致这些的基本心理和行为机制产生了有限的见解 结果。该项目将在四到七岁的年龄段中为ELL开发急需的资源 互动型干故事书的形式，促进亲子共同阅读活动。交互式 故事书将以五个母语（L1）和 英语（L2）可容纳代际语言流利度的不同差异。具有文化相关 为成人和儿童读者带有相关榜样并感染与STEM相关的故事的故事 主题将经过设计，以应对有限的父母的刻板印象和鼓励参与 英语精通。影响ELL学生的茎结果的机制 - 例如授权 父母参与培养孩子的茎有趣和鼓励的渐进信念 Ell学生对自己的情报 - 将被融入电子书内容和干预设计中。这 项目旨在创建一组交互式电子书的语料库，这些书籍被英国 - 西班牙一对混合并评估 该系统在第一阶段的可行性，然后在第二阶段增加儿童的效率和可持续性 感知到STEM主题的能力和亲和力及其家人对他们的学习的支持 对STEM主题的兴趣。