TY - JOUR
T1 - Teens becoming researchers
T2 - Pedagogical considerations when designing coresearch
AU - Buck, Margaret H.
AU - Magee, Rachel M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Young Researchers is a multiyear research project that works with Illinois teenagers to collaboratively develop research and informal learning materials. The project examines how teens interact with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics, as well as their everyday technology use, with youth-driven research studies. The current stage of the project is working with a group of teens from a small community. These teens, or Young Researchers, are learning about how to conduct research by actively participating in study design, participant recruitment, data collection, and the analysis and reporting of research findings. In the future the project plans to work with additional groups of teens from around Illinois. The Young Researchers are building literacy skills, becoming researchers, and contributing to scholarship while exploring their potential to pursue research careers. This paper discusses the development of Young Researchers’ first collaborative research project, with a focus on the teaching strategies used in encouraging the teens to engage with the research process. The paper highlights the considerations for conducting this approach with such teens, including a discussion of methods and pedagogy.
AB - Young Researchers is a multiyear research project that works with Illinois teenagers to collaboratively develop research and informal learning materials. The project examines how teens interact with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics, as well as their everyday technology use, with youth-driven research studies. The current stage of the project is working with a group of teens from a small community. These teens, or Young Researchers, are learning about how to conduct research by actively participating in study design, participant recruitment, data collection, and the analysis and reporting of research findings. In the future the project plans to work with additional groups of teens from around Illinois. The Young Researchers are building literacy skills, becoming researchers, and contributing to scholarship while exploring their potential to pursue research careers. This paper discusses the development of Young Researchers’ first collaborative research project, with a focus on the teaching strategies used in encouraging the teens to engage with the research process. The paper highlights the considerations for conducting this approach with such teens, including a discussion of methods and pedagogy.
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U2 - 10.1353/lib.2017.0023
DO - 10.1353/lib.2017.0023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029164058
SN - 0024-2594
VL - 65
SP - 659
EP - 683
JO - Library Trends
JF - Library Trends
IS - 4
ER -