Simulation Academy at Yale: Youth Entering Science (SAY-YES!)

项目概要/摘要：让学生接触新的机会，创造成就感， 通过非正式的指导进行社会学习，并使学习变得有趣，被认为是非正式的好处。 STEM教育。耶鲁大学医学模拟中心的科学与健康伙伴关系利用了 在模拟培训中， 城市环境拟议的工作建立在耶鲁大学模拟学院-青年进入科学 （说-是！）研究团队先前的创新工作开发了一个课后模拟程序， 当地公立高中的学生在动手体验学习使用多种技术，包括高 逼真的人体模型模拟器来探索解剖学和生理学。这项为期五年的SEPA提案旨在 从现有的SAY-YES！计划，一个多层次的STEM学习课程， 领导力和指导。该项目的具体目标是：1）开发和实施一个可扩展的四- 9 - 12年级的课程和教学模式，包括STEM同行的重点机会， 领导力教育; 2）创建一个纵向指导计划，旨在促进指导社区 重视STEM参与，表现和代表性，通过建模行为和鼓励 在我们的成长心态说是的！学生;和3）确定的近端和纵向效益的 通过迭代设计为基础的研究方法来评估学生和 参与该计划的教师。通过动手体验式学习活动，学生将激活 对特定STEM应用的情境兴趣以及在自我效能方面的持久收益， 价值信念这将激励未来的STEM参与和职业轨迹。由于大多数美国城市在 至少有一个学术医学模拟中心，具有丰富的高科技环境，可进行非正式实践 学习，说YES！将提供证据，建议广泛传播作为STEM的框架 参与不同城市环境中代表性不足的学生。

Project Summary/Abstract: Exposing students to new opportunities, creating a sense of accomplishment, social learning through informal mentorship, and making learning fun have been found as benefits of informal STEM education. The Science & Health Partnership at Yale Center for Medical Simulation leverages advances in simulation training to promote informal STEM learning for underrepresented high school students in an urban environment. The proposed work builds on the Simulation Academy at Yale – Youth Entering Science (SAY-YES!) research team's prior innovative work developing an after-school simulation program engaging local public high school students in hands-on experiential learning using multiple technologies including high fidelity mannequin simulators to explore anatomy and physiology. This five-year SEPA proposal seeks to develop, from the foundations of the existing SAY-YES! program, a multi-level curriculum for STEM learning, leadership, and mentoring. The specific aims for this project are to: 1) develop and implement a scalable four- year curriculum for 9th-12th graders and model of instruction including focused opportunities for STEM peer- leadership education; ; 2) create a longitudinal mentoring program designed to foster mentoring communities that value STEM engagement, performance, and representation through modeling behavior and encouraging of growth mindsets in our SAY-YES! students; and 3) determine the proximal and longitudinal benefits of the program through an iterative design-based-research approach to assess outcomes of both students and educators participating in the program. Through hands-on experiential learning activities, students will activate both situational interest in specific STEM applications as well as develop lasting gains in their self-efficacy and value beliefs. This will motivate future STEM engagement and career trajectories. Since most US cities have at least one academic medical simulation center with a rich, high technology environment for hands-on informal learning, SAY-YES! will provide evidence to recommend broad dissemination as a framework for STEM engagement for underrepresented students across different urban environments.