RAPID: Evaluation of disaster-related science lesson plans to promote learning continuity after Hurricane Maria

尽管过去曾利用自然灾害来开发基于项目的学习(PBL)课程，但缺乏研究在自然灾害发生后对其使用情况进行审查。该项目的目的是利用正在进行的与科学教育以及波多黎各目前的紧急情况和灾后恢复情况有关的努力。耶鲁大学Ciencia倡议与Ciencia波多黎各合作，与波多黎各教育部合作，将制定与文化相关的基于项目的科学课程计划，其中纳入了可在传统课堂内外实施的灾害背景。该项目将允许流离失所的学生在老师、家长或社会工作者的指导下继续学习。该项目将培训教育工作者如何使用与灾害有关的以问题为基础的课程，并评估项目执行情况和课程的影响。这一目标的最终成果将是其他面临自然灾害的司法管辖区的课程计划模板和实施指南。该项目将通过开发其他司法管辖区可用于在自然灾害发生之前制定自己的教学计划的工具和实施准则来加强教育基础设施，以确保学习的连续性。该项目将通过观察和类比、对家长、教育工作者和学生进行调查以及对每个人的重点小组进行评估来评估实施情况。为了评估情景PBL课程的影响，该项目将收集教育干预前后的调查数据，以衡量学生内容知识以及预测参与科学学习的态度的变化。结果将与接受标准课程的匹配对照组进行比较，标准课程没有与灾难相关，也不包括PBL，或者PBL课程计划没有纳入灾难或文化背景。在项目期间，至少30名教育工作者和200名7年级学生将接触到情景PBL课程计划。由此产生的可行性分析将为其他司法管辖区准备应对自然灾害的教育系统提供信息，并为在灾后恢复环境中使用结合了PBL的情景教学计划提供证据。此外，项目设计将通过允许研究人员检查将当前社会/历史背景整合到PBL课程中的影响，以及通过检查科学态度和参与度的变化与学习变化之间的关系，来推动PBL领域的发展。探索研究K-12项目(DRK-12)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年级学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。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。

Although natural disasters have been used in the past to develop project-based learning (PBL) lessons, there is a lack of research that examines their use in the aftermath of a natural disaster. The purpose of this project is to leverage ongoing efforts related to science education and the current emergency and disaster recovery landscape in Puerto Rico. The Yale Ciencia Initiative, in collaboration with Ciencia Puerto Rico, working with the Department of Education of Puerto Rico will develop culturally relevant project-based science lesson plans that incorporate the disaster context that can be implemented both inside and outside of the traditional classroom. The project will allow displaced students to continue learning under the guidance of teachers, parents or social workers. The project will train educators in the use of disaster-related problem-based lessons and assess project implementation and the impact of the lessons. The final outcome of this aim will be a lesson plan template and implementation guidelines for other jurisdictions faced by natural disasters. The project will result in enhanced infrastructure for education by developing tools and implementation guidelines that other jurisdictions may use to develop their own lesson plans in advance of natural disasters, so as to assure continuity of learning.The project will assess implementation through observations and rubrics, surveys for parents, educators and students, and focus groups with each of these populations. To assess the impact of contextualized PBL lessons, the project will collect survey data, before and after the educational intervention, to measure changes in students' content knowledge, as well as in attitudes that are predictive of engagement in science learning. Results will be compared to matched control groups that receive either the standard curriculum, which are not contextualized to the disaster and that does not include PBL, or a PBL lesson plan that does not incorporate the disaster or the cultural context. At least 30 educators and 200 7th grade students will be exposed during the project period to the contextualized PBL lesson plan. The resulting feasibility analysis will inform other jurisdictions preparing their educational systems for natural disasters and provide evidence for the use of contextualized lesson plans that incorporate PBL in disaster recovery settings. In addition, the project design will advance the field of PBL by allowing investigators to examine the impact of integrating current social/historical contexts to PBL lessons and by examining the relationship between changes in science attitudes and engagement, with changes in learning.The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) 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.