CAREER: Making Across Contexts - Pathways to Engineering Adaptive Expertise

这项研究调查青年参与制造商运动？一个由工程师、业余爱好者、艺术家和修补匠组成的社区，他们设计、建造和重新利用物质对象？作为工程和设计方面的适应性专业知识的途径。这项研究着眼于正式（学校）和非正式（社区组织）的学习环境，以研究青年如何通过？制造？在这些背景下。从这些交叉设置的对比，学习环境为中心？制作？将被设计，通过混合方法研究，并逐步完善在一个迭代的fashion.The研究解决了文献中的重要差距，通过调查在一个较长的时间段和发展的适应性专业知识的工程身份，通过？制作？参与创客运动。这项研究将提供基于研究的建议，实践，认知工具，以支持学习，和新的学习评估。调查结果将通过会议论文、期刊文章以及与创客运动中的领先组织建立伙伴关系，广泛传播给研究人员和从业人员。

This study investigates youth participation in the Maker Movement ? a community of engineers, hobbyists, artists, and tinkerers who design, build, and repurpose material objects ? as a pathway to adaptive expertise in engineering and design. The study looks across formal (schools) and informal (community organizations) learning environments to examine how youth learn through ?making? in these contexts. Drawing from these cross-setting contrasts, learning environments centered on ?making? will be designed, studied through mixed methods research, and progressively refined in an iterative fashion.The research addresses important gaps in the literature by investigating the development of adaptive expertise over an extended time period and the development of engineering identity through ?making? and participation in the Maker Movement. This study will provide research-based recommendations for practice, cognitive tools to support learning, and novel assessments of learning. Findings will be widely disseminated to both researchers and practitioners through conference papers, journal articles, and through partnerships with leading organizations within the Maker Movement.