A conference to explore theories regarding how moral motives move people from STEM information learning to STEM-informed action

非正式学习机构--博物馆、图书馆、新闻机构和其他机构--努力让他们的观众了解在各种主题上迅速形成的科学共识。在大流行期间，这些信息往往会引发社会疏远等行动。是什么促使人们根据这些信息采取行动(或不采取行动)？当建议的行动可能给自己带来好的结果或坏的结果时，信息需要符合防止坏结果和/或促进好结果的激励倾向。最近的理论表明，影响其他人的推荐行动也有类似的动机：家人、朋友、邻居，乃至社会和生物界。这一小型虚拟会议将把STEM研究人员和实践者聚集在一起，对道德动机模型提出跨学科和实用的批评，并讨论其对与STEM主题相关的行动的影响。具体地说，大会将使用美国国家科学基金会快速拨款(#2027939)收集的数据，这些数据将人们的新闻消费、他们对新冠肺炎预防建议的遵从性，以及他们对(从自我到社会)推荐行为保护或促进谁的福祉的判断联系在一起。这一小型虚拟会议将招募大约16名与会者，其中包括跨学科学者，他们的工作涉及STEM非正式学习背景下的社会责任，以及来自科学中心、图书馆、动物园和媒体等广泛部门的从业人员。个别学科将包括人类学、心理学、学习科学的跨学科领域以及判断和决策。会议战略将包括同步、异步和小组协作，以及全组讨论。会议活动将持续8周。会议的结构大致以开放空间技术办法为基础(即：通用和朗特尔梅，2014，欧文，1997年)。为了在这些不同的非正式学习部门建设能力，与会者将把有关道德动机的影响提炼成实际的建议，以便在会议记录中发表，其中将包括一份关于初始模式和经协作修订的模式的报告。会议记录的可编辑版本将允许注册从业者进一步批评和发展这一建议。会议记录将作为一本简短的创意共享电子书分发，副本和链接将在推进非正式STEM教育中心的网站上分发，并通过所有参与者的专业研究和从业者协会分发。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)方案资助，旨在：(A)促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解；(B)为扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验提供多种途径；(C)促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估；以及(D)让所有年龄段的公众在非正式环境中学习STEM。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。

Informal learning institutions--museums, libraries, news organizations, and others--work to inform their audiences about the rapidly emerging scientific consensus on various topics. Often this information invites action such as social distancing during a pandemic. What motivates people to act upon that information (or not)? When recommended actions can yield good or bad outcomes for oneself, the information needs to fit with motivational tendencies towards preventing bad outcomes and/or promoting good outcomes. Recent theories indicate similar motives for recommended actions that affect others: family, friends, neighbors, and up the scale to the societal and the biological world. This small virtual conference will bring together STEM researchers and practitioners to offer a transdisciplinary and practically minded critique of the model of moral motives and discuss its implications for actions related to STEM topics. Specifically, the conference will use data collected by NSF RAPID grant (#2027939) that connects people’s news consumption, their compliance with COVID-19 prevention recommendations, and their judgments of whose wellbeing (from self to society) recommended behaviors protect or promote. This small virtual conference will recruit approximately 16 attendees including transdisciplinary scholars whose work addresses social responsibility in the context of STEM informal learning and practitioners from a broad range of sectors including science centers, libraries, zoos, and the media. Individual disciplines will include anthropology, psychology, the interdisciplinary fields of the learning sciences and judgement and decision-making. The conference strategy will include synchronous, asynchronous, and small group collaborations in addition to full-group discussion. Conference activities will spread over 8 weeks. The structure of the conference is loosely based on the Open Space Technology approach (i.e.: General & Lantelme, 2014, Owen 1997). To build capacity in these various informal learning sectors participants will distill implications about moral motives into practical advice to publish in the conference proceedings that will include a report on the initial and collaboratively revised models. An editable version of the proceedings will allow registered practitioners to further critique and develop that advice. The conference proceedings will be distributed as a short Creative Commons e-book with copies and links distributed on the website of the Center for Advancing Informal STEM Education , and through all the participant’s professional research and practitioner societies.This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.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.