高中科学博览会:学生参与和体验的学校位置趋势
Frederick Grinnell1, Simon Dalley2, Joan Reisch3
1Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.
PloS one
|September 11, 2023
概括
大多数科学和工程博览会 (SEF) 的参与者来自郊区学校,尽管有国家数据,但很少来自农村地区. 城市和郊区的学生报告了类似的SEF经验,农村的代表性特别低.
科学领域:
- 教育研究教育研究
- 在STEM教育方面.
- 教育社会学教育的社会学
背景情况:
- 科学和工程博览会 (SEF) 对于美国高中学生的STEM参与至关重要.
- 了解SEF参与者的人口和地理分布对于公平获取至关重要.
- 以前的研究表明,基于种族的SEF参与和结果存在差异.
研究的目的:
- 分析参加SEF的高中学生的地理分布 (城市,郊区,农村).
- 为了比较不同学校的SEF参与率和结果.
- 检查SEF经验中学校位置如何与种族和性别相交.
主要方法:
- 通过Scienteer网站 (2019-2022) 对近2500名参加SEF的美国高中生进行调查.
- 从2019/20学年开始,包含一个关于高中位置 (城市,郊区,农村) 的新问题.
- 分析调查数据以确定基于学校位置,种族和性别的参与模式,结果和经验.
主要成果:
- 显著的大多数 (74%) 的SEF参与者来自郊区学校,农村学校的代表性出乎意料地低 (4%),与全国数据 (超过20%) 相反.
- 亚裔和西班牙裔学生报告SEF结果比黑人和白人学生更成功,具有不同的地理参与模式 (例如,亚裔学生主要在郊区,西班牙裔学生更平衡的城市/郊区).
- 基于学校位置的统计学意义上的差异是微不足道的;与城市同行相比,郊区学校的学生在一些领域表现出轻微的优势. 性别和种族模式在不同地点保持一致.
结论:
- 在SEF中,大多数高中生来自郊区学校.
- 来自城市学校的学生体验到与郊区学校的学生相似的SEF参与和结果.
- 来自农村学校的学生在SEF中的代表性显著不足,因此需要进一步调查障碍和潜在干预措施.
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