RAISE: Guiding Earth Educators to Transformative Resources: Broadening the Scope and Increasing the Efficacy of the SERC Discovery System

该项目将改进支持地球教育工作者访问SERC托管网站的资源发现的工具和实践。地球教育界确定，改善发现是其最优先的行动，以最大限度地发挥SERC持有的教育材料收藏的影响。此外，我们将修改Serockit平台中的工具，以允许SERC网站的用户发现由其他组织托管的地球教育材料。这将增加来自多个来源的资源的可见性，并为社区提供一个查找优质教育材料的一站式门户。新的搜索和探索工具将直接支持将用户连接到以下材料：整合研究驱动的教学方法，优先考虑学生参与当前的研究数据，并提高社区多样性、公平性和包容性努力的可见度，从而促进这些重要做法的传播。调查人员将使用系统的、社区知情的过程来指导升级，确保变化导致材料和资源的影响增加。调查人员将参与以用户为中心的设计过程：收集社区意见、进行有针对性的改进和评估结果的循环反馈循环。这一过程的重点将是1)对旨在改进发现的广泛的站点特征进行迭代改进，以及2)扩大可发现的资源的范围，以包括那些不直接由SERC托管的资源。在SERC用于编目外部资源的工具的推动下，这一扩大的范围将把已经在SERC网站上的大量地球教育受众与外部地球教育计划开发的丰富的资源、项目和活动联系起来，包括研究中心(例如，UNAVCO、IRIS、UCAR、OOI、CUAHSI)，以及由GEOPAths和NSF资助的努力包括。设计周期的评估部分将要求更深入地了解用户如何参与当前站点的发现，并建立衡量修改和扩展服务于用户的程度的指标。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。

This project will improve the tools and practices that support resource discovery for Earth educators visiting SERC-hosted websites. The Earth education community identified improving discovery as its highest priority action for maximizing the impact of the SERC-held collections of education materials. In addition, we will modify tools in the Serckit platform to allow users of the SERC sites to discover Earth education materials hosted by other organizations. This will increase the visibility of resources from many sources and provide the community with a one-stop portal for finding high quality educational materials. The new search and exploration tools will directly support connecting users to materials that: integrate research-driven pedagogy, prioritize student engagement with current research data, and increase the visibility of the community's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, thereby elevating the spread of these important practices. The investigators will use a systematic, community-informed process to guide the upgrades, ensuring changes lead to increasing impact of the materials and resources.The investigators will engage in a user-centered design process: a cyclical feedback loop of gathering community input, making targeted improvements and evaluating the results. The focus of this process will be to 1) make iterative improvements to a wide-range of site features intended to improve discovery and 2) expand the range of resources discoverable to include those not directly hosted by SERC. This expanded scope, facilitated by SERC tools for cataloging external resources, will connect the large Earth education audience already on SERC sites to the rich array of resources, projects, and events developed by external Earth education programs including research centers (e.g., UNAVCO, IRIS, UCAR, OOI, CUAHSI) and efforts funded by GEOPAths and NSF INCLUDES. The evaluative part of the design cycle will require developing a deeper understanding of how users engage in discovery with the current site and establishing metrics that characterize how well the modifications and expansion made serve the users.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.