Improving middle grade STEM interest and increased learning using GN and DOC

项目摘要 科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的教育对于准备至关重要 学生在生物医学科学的职业生涯。研究表明，传统科学 强调死记硬背的教学使学习脱离语境， 愿意从事科学教育。精心设计的教育媒体可以支持 强大的以科学为中心的教师教学法，培养学生对科学主题的兴趣， STEM职业教育媒体资产，如数字视频和图形小说资产 提供支持各种学习评估，STEM兴趣的基础环境， 有意从事相关职业。这种教育媒体资源支持长期 学生以团队为基础的协作，在评估学习成果的增长，并提供 #21453;可能的职业选择。建议的教育媒体可以迅速 通过现有的通用数字平台开发并广泛分发，使其成为 广泛传播的好方法。需要进行综合评价，以确定 所提议的图画小说或纪录片视频媒体是否比 传统的以讲座和阅读为基础的科学教学。本SEPA的总体假设 精心设计的教育媒体治疗比传统的STEM更有效， 主题指导，以增加对相关领域的兴趣，增加知识的保留， 提高学生的STEM职业意向。将使用三个目标来检验假设：目标1： 创建以科学为基础的图形小说和纪录片视频与支持课程计划， 以及等距传统交付，面对面的教训，将用于 以七年级和九年级学生为对象，对项目假设进行全面、纵向的检验。 目标2：对图画小说和纪录片录像教育媒体进行评价 对不同学生群体进行治疗，以确定其提供治疗的有效性 STEM教育材料，探讨数字课程和媒体是否能提高学生的学习能力。 对STEM主题的兴趣，以及接触数字材料是否能提高学生的 追求STEM职业的意图。目标3：提供教师专业发展培训 教师有效地提供数字化的教育媒体。

Project Summary Education for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is critical to prepare students for careers within the biomedical sciences. Research indicates that traditional science teaching focused on rote memorization decontextualizes learning and diminishes students’ willingness to engage in science education. Well-designed educational media can support strong science-focused teacher pedagogy and foster student interest in science topics and STEM careers. Educational media assets such as digital videos and graphic novels assets provide grounding contexts that support varied learning assessments, STEM interest, and intention to pursue related careers. Such educational media resources support long term students team-based collaboration, growth in assessed learning outcomes, and provide exposure to possible STEM career choices. The proposed educational media can be quickly developed and widely distributed through common, existing digital platforms, making it a promising approach for broad dissemination. Comprehensive evaluation is needed to determine whether the proposed graphic novel or documentary video media are more effective than traditional lecture and readings-based science instruction. The overall hypothesis of this SEPA is that well-designed educational media treatments can be more effective than traditional STEM subject instruction to grow interest in related fields, increased knowledge retention, and improved student STEM career intention. Three aims will be used to test the hypothesis: Aim 1: Create science-based graphic novel and documentary videos with supporting lesson plans, as well as isometric traditionally delivered, face-to-face lessons that will be used to comprehensively and longitudinally test the project hypotheses with 7th and 9th grade students. Aim 2: Conduct evaluations of the graphic novel and documentary video educational media treatments with diverse populations of students to determine their effectiveness in delivering STEM educational materials, explore whether the digital curricula and media improve student interest in STEM topics, and whether exposure to the digital materials improves student intentions to pursue STEM careers. Aim 3: Provide teacher professional development to train teachers to effectively deliver the digitally delivered educational media.