RAPID: Pandemic Learning Loss in U.S. High Schools: A National Examination of Student Experiences

由于新冠肺炎疫情，美国大部分地区的学校自2020年3月中旬以来一直停课，许多学生一直试图离开学校继续学业。根据个人、家庭、学校、学区和州层面的各种因素，全国各地的学生体验可能会有很大的差异。该项目将使用两个具有全国代表性的现有高中生数据库来研究他们在新冠肺炎大流行期间在STEM教育方面的经验。这项研究旨在确定学生是否在高中学习STEM课程，课程变化的性质，以及他们对秋季的计划。研究人员将确定正在使用的电子学习平台，以及在正式和非正式环境中对STEM体验进行的其他修改。这项研究特别感兴趣的是寻找STEM中服务不足的不同人口群体中学生的不平等模式，这些学生最有可能受到正规教育中断的影响。这项研究将使用由大约2,000名13至17岁的学生组成的美国青少年小组和以大约250万名高中生为样本的无限校园学生信息系统来收集数据。这些数据集允许对学生在新冠肺炎大流行之前和期间的经历进行相关比较，并提供了具有全国代表性的美国高中生样本的独特视角。新的数据收集将侧重于STEM的正式和非正式学习机会、参与度、STEM课程的选修、教学的性质和频率、与教师的互动、对STEM的兴趣和职业抱负。加权数据将使用描述性统计进行分析，并将在地区内和地区之间进行分析，以评估群体差异。将根据人口统计因素提供群体间大流行学习损失的估计。这个快速奖是由学习研究部的DRK-12项目颁发的。探索研究学前班计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发新的创新和方法，显著提高学前班学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为项目提供理论和经验证明的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across much of the U.S. have been closed since mid-March of 2020 and many students have been attempting to continue their education away from schools. Student experiences across the country are likely to be highly variable depending on a variety of factors at the individual, home, school, district, and state levels. This project will use two, nationally representative, existing databases of high school students to study their experiences in STEM education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study intends to ascertain whether students are taking STEM courses in high school, the nature of the changes made to the courses, and their plans for the fall. The researchers will identify the electronic learning platforms in use, and other modifications made to STEM experiences in formal and informal settings. The study is particularly interested in finding patterns of inequities for students in various demographic groups underserved in STEM and who may be most likely to be affected by a hiatus in formal education.This study will collect data using the AmeriSpeak Teen Panel of approximately 2,000 students aged 13 to 17 and the Infinite Campus Student Information System with a sample of approximately 2.5 million high school students. The data sets allow for relevant comparisons of student experiences prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic and offer unique perspectives with nationally representative samples of U.S. high school students. New data collection will focus on formal and informal STEM learning opportunities, engagement, STEM course taking, the nature and frequency of instruction, interactions with teachers, interest in STEM, and career aspirations. Weighted data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics and within and between district analysis will be conducted to assess group differences. Estimates of between group pandemic learning loss will be provided with attention to demographic factors. This RAPID award is made by the DRK-12 program in the Division of Research on Learning. The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics by preK-12 students and teachers, through the research and development of new innovations and approaches. 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 the projects.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.