PBS NewsHour STEM Student Reporting Labs: Broad expansion of youth journalism to support increased STEM literacy among underserved student populations and their communities

探索研究K-12计划(DR-K12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具(RMT)，显著提高K-12学龄前学生和教师的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发努力的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验证明。该项目扩大了PBS NewsHour学生报道实验室(SRL)的规模，这是一个培训青少年从青年角度制作关于STEM重要问题的视频报道的模式。参与的学校将获得SRL新闻和数字媒体素养课程，当地PBS附属机构的学生导师，教育工作者的专业发展，以及PBS NewsHour团队的支持。新闻故事的制作和课堂上以学生为中心的教学旨在通过以学生为中心的探究和对元认知的反思来增加学生对STEM内容的学习。学生将加深对材料的理解，以选择最佳策略来教授STEM故事或通过数字媒体向他人讲述STEM故事。在该项目的4年时间里，该模式将从目前的70所学校扩大到40个州的150所学校，目标是年轻人人数较多的学校。该模型将增加新的组成部分，包括STEM专业导师以及社交媒体和媒体分析组成部分。项目合作伙伴包括当地PBS电视台、Project Lead Way和Share My Lesson教育者。由New Knowledge，LLC进行的这项研究将增加关于青年科学新闻和数字媒体这一不断增长的领域的新知识。前端评估将通过部署基于网络的调查来评估学生对当代STEM问题的理解，以众包年轻人对当前科学问题的反应、兴趣、问题和想法。一个问题子集将探索学生将新获得的信息传递给更大社交网络成员的倾向。形成性评估将包括对学生报告实验室的多个利益相关者进行定性和定量研究，以完善计划的实施。终结性评估将跟踪学习结果/变化，例如：学生报道STEM新闻如何提高他们的STEM扫盲能力？这会如何影响他们对STEM职业的兴趣？对于代表性不足的学生，哪些策略最有效？青年之间如何就科学内容进行交流，为新闻媒体提供最佳实践？研究小组将使用STEM学生报告实验室中1700名学生和对照组1700名学生进行的前后延迟调查的数据。此外，与教师的访谈将评估课程和学生参与的印象。

The Discovery Research K-12 program (DR-K12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. This project scales up the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL), a model that trains teens to produce video reports on important STEM issues from a youth perspective. Participating schools receive a SRL journalism and digital media literacy curriculum, a mentor for students from a local PBS affiliate, professional development for educators, and support from the PBS NewsHour team. The production of news stories and student-oriented instruction in the classroom are designed to increase student learning of STEM content through student-centered inquiry and reflections on metacognition. Students will develop a deep understanding of the material to choose the best strategy to teach or tell the STEM story to others through digital media. Over the 4 years of the project, the model will be expanded from the current 70 schools to 150 in 40 states targeting schools with high populations of underrepresented youth. New components will be added to the model including STEM professional mentors and a social media and media analytics component. Project partners include local PBS stations, Project Lead the Way, and Share My Lesson educators.The research study conducted by New Knowledge, LLC will add new knowledge about the growing field of youth science journalism and digital media. Front-end evaluation will assess students' understanding of contemporary STEM issues by deploying a web-based survey to crowd-source youth reactions, interest, questions, and thoughts about current science issues. A subset of questions will explore students' tendencies to pass newly-acquired information to members of the larger social networks. Formative evaluation will include qualitative and quantitative studies of multiple stakeholders at the Student Reporting Labs to refine the implementation of the program. Summative evaluation will track learning outcomes/changes such as: How does student reporting on STEM news increase their STEM literacy competencies? How does it affect their interest in STEM careers? Which strategies are most effective with underrepresented students? How do youth communicate with each other about science content, informing news media best practices? The research team will use data from pre/post and post-delayed surveys taken by 1700 students in the STEM Student Reporting Labs and 1700 from control groups. In addition, interviews with teachers will assess the curriculum and impressions of student engagement.