Child Trends News Service: Advancing Social Science Knowledge to Benefit Hispanic Families

儿童趋势是一个非营利性组织，致力于通过开展研究并与从业者和公众分享结果知识来改善儿童及其家庭的生活。在这个项目中，儿童趋势将进行研究和开发，推出儿童趋势新闻服务，旨在提供以社会科学儿童为中心的研究为特色的新闻报道。研究结果旨在改善处境危险的儿童，尤其是拉美裔儿童的预后，他们是美国儿童中人数最多、增长最快的少数族裔。儿童趋势新闻处将与一家专业新闻联合公司合作，为主要新闻媒体制作引人入胜的报道，其中包括与有助于减轻与贫困、缺乏教育、暴力等挑战相关的负面儿童后果的行为有关的最新可操作的社会科学研究。《儿童趋势》将通过社交媒体和与利益攸关方的接触吸引人们对这些报告的关注。通过用英语和西班牙语在地方电视新闻节目中播出这些报道，数百万人将有更多的机会了解这些信息。这是早期的研发工作，证明地方电视台可以制作这些报道，并检查这些信息对拉丁裔父母的影响。关于电视新闻对特定社会科学研究的知识和态度的影响，该研究将为非正式科学教育领域提供宝贵的经验教训，并更深入地了解新闻如何可能或可能不会激发行为改变。该项目的总体目标是利用商业新闻接触人口，特别是拉丁美洲人，他们历来在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和职业中代表性不足。该项目的目标是：*利用大众媒体新闻渠道，向拉丁裔听众有效传播有关儿童福利和发展的社会科学研究进展。*通过探索公众如何与可操作的社会科学儿童研究互动，推进非正式STEM学习领域。*通过与服务于高危拉丁裔家庭的提供者组织的战略合作，扩大新闻产品的覆盖面和应用；儿童研究和STEM领域；以及其他致力于拉丁裔家庭问题的组织。活动包括新闻服务的发展和形成性测试，新闻服务对受众的影响的定性和定量测试，以及对项目组成部分执行情况的评价。定量研究，使用控制组和实验组，将努力建立初步证据，证明儿童趋势新闻服务将导致观众对以儿童为中心的社会科学研究的知识、态度和行为的变化。“儿童趋势”项目团队将获得咨询委员会和技术工作组的信息，并与美国最大的针对低收入拉丁裔父母的育儿教育项目Abriendo Puertas密切合作。《儿童趋势》将与艾芬豪广播新闻合作制作和分发这些材料。集团咨询公司将对该项目进行评估，并提供一份研究简报，内容包括经验教训、研究成果衡量标准和艾芬豪新闻报道。拟议的研究和发展将在两年的时间内进行；调查结果将为正在进行的服务和进一步的研究提供信息。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，扩大STEM学习经验的获取和参与，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深度学习的理解。

Child Trends is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the lives of children and their families by conducting research and sharing the resulting knowledge with practitioners and the public. In this project, Child Trends will conduct research and development to launch a Child Trends News Service aimed at providing news reports that feature social science child-centric research. The resulting work is designed to improve outcomes for at-risk children, particularly Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group among U.S. children. Working with a professional news syndication company, the Child Trends News Service will produce engaging reports for key news media outlets that feature the latest actionable social science research related to behaviors that help mitigate negative child outcomes associated with poverty, lack of education, violence, among other challenges. Child Trends will draw attention to the reports through social media and outreach to stakeholders. By airing these reports on local television news programs in English and Spanish, millions of people will have greater access to this information. This is early R&D work to demonstrate that local television stations can create these reports and examine the impact of this information on Latino parents. The study will provide valuable lessons to the informal science education field with respect to the impact of television news on knowledge and attitudes toward specific social science research, and a deeper understanding of how news might, or might not, motivate behavioral change.The overarching aim of this project is to use commercial news to reach populations, especially Latinos, who have historically been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and careers. The goals of the project are to: * Leverage mass media news outlets to effectively communicate developments in social science research on child well-being and development to Latino audiences. * Advance the field of informal STEM learning by exploring how the public interacts with actionable social science child research. * Expand the reach and application of the news products through strategic collaborations with provider organizations serving at-risk Latino families; the child research and STEM fields; and other organizations working on Latino family issues.Activities include the development and formative testing of the news service, the qualitative and quantitative testing of the news service's impact on audiences, and evaluation of the implementation of the project's components. The quantitative research, using a control group and treatment group, will work to establish preliminary evidence that the Child Trends News Service will result in changes in viewers' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to child-centric social science research. The Child Trends' project team will be informed by an Advisory Board and Technical Working Group as well by working closely with Abriendo Puertas, the largest U.S. parenting education program for low-income Latino parents. Child Trends will partner with Ivanhoe Broadcast News to produce and distribute the materials. Group & Consultancy will evaluate the project and provide a research brief on lessons learned, research outcome measures, and Ivanhoe news pick-up reports. The proposed research and development will be conducted over a two-year period; findings will inform ongoing service and additional research.This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.