NSF AYS Learning and Youth Research and Evaluation Center (LYREC)

学习和青年研究与评估中心(Lyrec)是探索博物馆、哈佛大学、伦敦国王学院、SRI国际和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的合作伙伴。Lyrec为NSF Aays项目提供技术援助，收集和综合其影响数据，并监督进度和结果的传播。该中心建立在学校非正式学习中心(CILS)的基础上，该中心开发了一种考虑到校外教学(OST)和学校环境的特殊优势和负担能力的理论方法。这一基础将加强NSF Aays项目的潜力，以开发强大的本地模型，生成有效和可靠的数据，指导未来的投资、设计和研究，旨在创造OST和学校环境的一致性。这项工作的首要问题是：1.OST计划如何支持K-8年级的科学参与和学习，特别是它们如何有助于学生参与K-8及其他学校的科学？2.OST计划可以促进的科学学习成果的范围是什么，特别是在与学校、IHE、企业和其他社区合作伙伴合作时？3.课堂教师和学校如何利用儿童的OST经验来加强儿童对K-12学校科学的参与和成就？此外，数据分析将揭示：1.OST计划如何定位为支持，尤其是，传统上被排除在STEM学术和职业道路之外的高度贫困、女性和/或少数族裔儿童；和2.存在的结构/组织挑战和限制，使提供支持学校科学参与的OST体验的努力复杂化或混乱，反之，通过跨组织领域的合作创造新的可能性。数据将从调查、访谈、焦点小组、评估报告以及课堂和学校数据中收集。

The Learning and Youth Research and Evaluation Center (LYREC) is a collaboration of the Exploratorium, Harvard University, Kings College London, SRI International and UC Santa Cruz. LYREC provides technical assistance to NSF AYS projects, collects and synthesizes their impact data, and oversees dissemination of progress and results. This center builds on the Center for Informal Learning in Schools (CILS) that has developed a theoretical approach that takes into account the particular strengths and affordances of both Out of School Teaching (OST) and school environments. This foundation will permit strengthening the potential of the NSF AYS projects to develop strong local models that can generate valid and reliable data that can guide future investment, design and research aimed at creating coherence across OST and school settings. The overarching questions for the work are:1. How can OST programs support K-8 engagement and learning in science, and in particular how can they contribute to student engagement with K-8 school science and beyond?2. What is the range of science learning outcomes OST programs can promote, particularly when in collaboration with schools, IHE's, businesses, and other community partners?3. How can classroom teachers and schools build on children's OST experiences to strengthen children's participation and achievement in K-12 school science?Additionally, the data analysis will reveal:1. How OST programs may be positioned to support, in particular, high-poverty, female and/or minority children traditionally excluded from STEM academic and career paths; and2. The structural/organizational challenges and constraints that exist to complicate or confound efforts to provide OST experiences that support school science engagement, and conversely, the new possibilities which are created by collaboration across organizational fields.Data will be gathered from surveys, interviews, focus groups, evaluation reports, and classroom and school data.