Collaboration in the 21st Century (C2C): Measuring Essential Skills for the STEM Workforce

C2C奖项通过实施严格的四阶段流程来开发新的评估，解决了缺乏有效工具来衡量初高中学生在校外时间（OST）环境下的团队合作和协作的问题。第一阶段的重点是定义团队合作和协作技能的结构，使其与研究文献保持一致，并与各种STEM OST项目的结果相关。构造图在第二阶段开发，以指导项目开发。这些工具将在第三阶段进行试点，通过对各种各样的青年和项目进行有声访谈和调查管理。通过一个迭代过程，项目根据其心理测量属性被修改或删除。最后阶段是对STEM OST项目进行全国性的现场测试。C2C的智力价值在于它有潜力促进对如何衡量STEM OST项目中的团队合作和协作技能的理解。全国都在呼吁采取更多措施来评估21世纪的技能。C2C创建的测量STEM OST项目团队合作和协作技能的工具有助于解决这一差距。C2C的工作解决了更广泛的影响，并通过创造工具来理解STEM OST项目在帮助我们国家的年轻人为STEM劳动力做好准备方面所起的作用，从而造福社会。C2C将创建专门针对这一多样化人群的工具，使项目能够了解他们在重要的社会STEM劳动力准备结果中发挥的作用。C2C还通过概念化STEM OST项目中的团队合作和协作，以及开发有效的工具来了解这些项目对青少年的影响，从而使非正式科学教育领域受益。

The C2C award addresses the lack of validated instruments to measure teamwork and collaboration in middle and high school students in out of school time (OST) settings by implementing a rigorous four-phase process to develop new assessments. Phase 1 focuses on defining the construct of teamwork and collaboration skills so it aligns with the research literature and is relevant to outcomes in a variety of STEM OST programs. Construct maps are developed during Phase 2 to guide item development. The instruments are piloted in Phase 3 through think-aloud interviews and survey administration with a diverse set of youth and programs. Through an iterative process, items are revised or removed based on their psychometric properties. The final phase is a national field test with a cross-section of STEM OST programs.C2C's intellectual merit is its potential to advance understanding of how to measure teamwork and collaboration skills in STEM OST programs. There is a national call for more measures to evaluate 21st century skills. C2C's creation of instruments to measure teamwork and collaboration skills in STEM OST programs helps to address this gap. The work of C2C addresses broader impacts and benefit society by creating tools to understand the role STEM OST programs play in readying our nation's youth for the STEM workforce. C2C will create instruments validated specifically for this diverse population, allowing programs to understand the role they play in important societal STEM workforce readiness outcomes. C2C also benefits the informal science education field by conceptualizing the construct of teamwork and collaboration within STEM OST programs and developing validated instruments to understand the impact of these programs on youth.