Child Trends News Service: Advancing Social Science Knowledge to Benefit Hispanic Families - Phase 2

作为加强非正式环境中学习的总体战略的一部分，推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）项目资助了用于各种环境的创新研究、方法和资源。在这个创新和发展项目中，儿童趋势与艾芬豪广播新闻合作，将扩大儿童趋势新闻服务的覆盖面，并严格评估其对观众的影响。新闻服务旨在建立公众对社会科学研究的认识和欣赏，并鼓励采用与积极儿童发展有关的研究知情的育儿实践-特别是在拉丁裔父母中。“儿童趋势新闻服务”于2017年通过美国国家科学基金会的概念验证资助首次推出，涵盖了可操作的、以儿童为中心的社会科学研究。通过在当地电视新闻上报道这项研究，该项目扩大了以证据为基础的育儿建议的覆盖面。截至2018年2月，89家电视台订阅了新闻服务，其中包括前25个拉丁裔电视市场中的8家电视台，这些电视台覆盖了这25个市场中所有西班牙裔电视家庭的38%。这个项目是对美国儿童面临的挑战的回应，其中超过五分之一的儿童生活在贫困中。关注拉美裔父母是为了回应拉美裔儿童在所有儿童中所占的比例越来越大，以及拉美裔儿童与同龄人相比不成比例地贫穷。该项目将检查新闻服务对在家中观看新闻报道的父母的影响，以及将新闻服务作为参与以社区为基础的“敞开大门”育儿计划的一部分的拉丁裔父母的影响。这项研究将有助于我们了解人们如何在不同环境下获取和使用科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）信息的知识库。该项目的总体目标是利用商业电视新闻来接触历史上在STEM教育和职业中代表性不足的人群。该项目的目标是：1。建立和管理一个跨学科的合作，包括新闻媒体专业人士，研究人员，服务于风险家庭的组织从业者，以及STEM通信和拉丁裔研究专家。2 .利用大众媒体新闻渠道，向高危人群提供有关儿童的社会科学研究，重点关注拉美裔父母。通过探索公众如何与儿童发展的可操作研究互动，以告知他们的知识、态度和行为，推动非正式STEM学习领域的发展。通过向儿童发展领域的其他利益相关者，包括为服务不足的家庭提供服务的项目，战略性地扩大新闻产品的覆盖范围和应用。为了实现这些目标，该项目将进一步加强一个咨询小组，为内容开发、研究设计、研究结果的解释、研究结果的传播以及项目在NSF资助期后的过渡提供信息。该项目将继续每月向电视台提供8个（英语和西班牙语）故事，并战略性地扩大在顶级拉丁美洲市场的覆盖范围。编辑过程将通过对拉丁裔父母的调查来确定感兴趣的主题。通过对来自不同种族/族裔群体的当地电视新闻观众进行随机分配的影响研究，该项目将评价新闻服务的影响。该项目将使用形成性研究方法来改进信息传递，并通过一个针对拉丁裔父母的育儿计划来研究重新利用这些视频的可能性。儿童趋势新闻服务力求在三个方面产生更广泛的影响：提高公众的科学素养和对科学技术的参与；加强学术界、工业界和其他方面的伙伴关系；提高社会中个人的福祉。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative research, approaches, and resources for use in a variety of settings. In this Innovations and Development project, Child Trends, in collaboration with Ivanhoe Broadcast News, will expand the reach of the Child Trends News Service, and rigorously evaluate its impact on viewers. The News Service aims to build the public's knowledge of, and appreciation for, social science research and to encourage adoption of research-informed parenting practices associated with positive child development--particularly among Latino parents. First produced in 2017 through a NSF proof of concept grant, the Child Trends News Service covers actionable, child-focused, social science research. By featuring this research on local TV news, the project expands access to evidence-based parenting recommendations. As of February 2018, 89 stations had subscribed to the News Service, including eight stations in the top 25 Latino-serving TV markets that reach 38% of all Hispanic TV Households in those 25 markets. This project is a response to the challenges faced by U.S. children, of whom more than one in five live in poverty. The focus on Latino parents is in response Latinos' increasing share of all children, and that Latino children are disproportionately poor, in comparison to their peers. The project will examine the impact of the News Service on parents who view the news reports in their homes, as well as Latino parents viewing the News Service as part of their participation in the Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors) community-based parenting program. This research will contribute to the knowledge base of what we know about how people access and use science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) information across settings. The overarching aim of this project is to leverage commercial television news to reach populations who have historically been underrepresented in STEM education and careers. The goals of the project are to:1. Build and manage an interdisciplinary collaborative, including news media professionals, researchers, practitioners in organizations serving at-risk families, and experts in STEM communications and Latino studies.2. Leverage mass media news outlets to deliver social science research on children to at-risk populations, with a focus on reaching Latino parents.3. Advance the field of informal STEM learning by exploring how the public interacts with actionable research on child development to inform their knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.4. Expand the reach and application of the news products through strategic outreach to other stakeholders in the child development field including programs serving under-served families.To accomplish these goals, the project will further strengthen an Advisory Panel to inform content development, study design, interpretation of findings, dissemination of study results, and the transition of the project after the NSF grant period. The project will continue to provide eight (both in English and Spanish) stories each month to TV stations and strategically grow the reach in top Latino markets. The editorial process will be informed by surveys of Latino parents to identify topics of interest. Through a random-assignment impact study with local TV news audiences from diverse racial/ethnic groups, the project will evaluate the impact of the News Service. The project will use formative research methods to refine messaging and examine the potential for repurposing the videos through a parenting program for Latino parents.The Child Trends News Service seeks broader impacts in three areas: increasing the public's scientific literacy and engagement with science and technology; increasing partnerships between academia, industry, and others; and improving the well-being of individuals in society.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.