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Summary of project activities during the second year July 17, 2017 at 2:27 pm, No comments With the end of the second JOBSTEM project year, we can sum up some of the activities we've engaged in during this time period. The second full team meeting was held in the beginning of the year, during which the activities of last year were discussed in the context of the main research aims and the agreed-upon plan of the project, as well as the schedule for the upcoming year being agreed upon. The experiences and recommendations stemming from the previous year were taken into account, and a new, updated testing schedule was made to address the issues encountered in the first research wave, and the organization of testing in the field. In the second research wave, we tested students from the 5th, 6th and 7th grades, in the schools involved with the project. Testing was organized in two parts in the beginning of 2017, and the collected data were added to the project database soon after. Following this, longitudinal data analysis began based on the data from the first two waves of testing. The second year also marked the end of the STEM intervention program for the students of the schools from the experimental condition. The intervention was organized in two parts. The first part consisted of workshops conceived by the collaborators from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (University of Zagreb) for the purposes of the project, and included the areas of robotics, programming, computer science and electronics. The workshops were based on a series of guided, interactive exercises in which students worked to solve the given tasks in teams. In the second part, students visited three research institutions dealing with STEM domains: the fifth graders visited the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, the sixth graders visited the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, and the seventh graders visited the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb. Focus groups were held with the students who had attended the intervention-related activities to collect qualitative data for the evaluation of the process and content of the STEM intervention and further our understanding of its outcomes. Apart from the above, the members of the JOBSTEM team attended several workshops organized by international institutions during which they acquired valuable methodological insights in the domain of educational research. We have also prepared five new research papers and presented the results of the project at several international and Croatian conferences, with the addition of being visible in many press outlets. Finally, many valuabale collaborations were established, of great importance for the visibility of the project, as well as potential research collaboration. Among those, the collaboration with dr. Louise Archer, the leader of the ten-years-long ASPIRES project at the University College London, which focuses on the question of the development of STEM aspirations and career choice, can be singled out. Through all of the aforementioned activities, the goals set for the second project year have been met.
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Izvještaj o aktivnostima u drugoj projektnoj godini July 17, 2017 at 2:29 pm, No commentsNa kraju druge projektne godine JOBSTEM istraživačkog projekta, možemo sumirati aktivnosti ostvarene tijekom ovog vremenskog razdoblja. Na početku godine održali smo drugi po redu sastanak našeg istraživačkog tima na kojem su u kontekstu glavnih istraživačkih ciljeva te postavljenog plana projekta, detaljno raspravljene provedene aktivnosti u prethodnoj te je razrađen i usuglašen plan provedbe projekta u predstojećoj projektnoj godini. Pritom smo u obzir uzeli sva iskustva i preporuke istraživača koje su proizašle iz do tada ostvarenih projektnih aktivnosti. Prije započinjanja drugog vala longitudinalnog istraživanja, članovi tima su na temelju iskustva prvoga vala i analize svih unutarnjih i vanjskih prijetnji u provedbi testiranja, razvili operativni plan kojim je jasno definirana dinamika i vremenski raspored prikupljanja podataka, potrebni kadrovski uvjeti te organizacija testiranja na terenu. U drugom istraživačkom valu ispitani su učenici 5., 6. i 7. razreda 16 škola uključenih u projekt. Istraživanje je organizirano u dva dijela, početkom 2017. godine, a prikupljeni podaci uneseni su u glavnu istraživačku bazu neposredno nakon završetka testiranja. Nakon unosa podataka, načinjene su analize podataka drugog vala te su započete longitudinalne analize temeljene na podacima prvog i drugog vala istraživanja. U drugoj smo godini također završili STEM intervencijski program za učenike eksperimentalnih škola. Ove je godine STEM intervencija organizirana u dva dijela. Prvi dio se sastojao od radionica koje su za potrebe projekta osmislili suradnici s Fakulteta elektrotehnike i računarstva u Zagrebu, a koje su uključivale područja robotike, programiranja, informatike i elektronike. Radionice su temeljene na nizu vođenih, interaktivnih vježbi, u kojima su učenici u timovima zajednički radili na rješenju zadanih problema. U drugom dijelu STEM intervencije, učenici su posjetili tri znanstvene institucije u STEM području: tako su peti razredi posjetili Fakultet strojarstva i brodogradnje Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, šesti razredi Fakultet kemijskog inženjerstva i tehnologije Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, a sedmi razredi Institut Ruđer Bošković u Zagrebu. S učenicima eksperimentalnih škola provedene su fokus grupe s ciljem prikupljanje dodatnih, kvalitativnih podataka za evaluaciju procesa i sadržaja STEM intervencije te razumijevanje njenih ishoda. Nadalje, u drugoj projektnoj godini članovi JOBSTEM tima pohađali su nekoliko radionica u organizaciji međunarodnih institucija na kojima su stekli nova metodološka znanja u području obrazovnih istraživanja. U ovoj godini pripremili smo pet novih znanstvenih radova te smo rezultate projekta izlagali na nekoliko međunarodnih i domaćih konferencijama, a naš je rad bio vidljiv i u brojnim medijskim priopćenjima. U ovoj su godini ostvarene i nove vrijedne suradnje, od visoke važnosti za vidljivost projekta, ali i moguću znanstvenu suradnju. Među njima možemo istaknuti započetu suradnju s Dr. Louise Archer, s University Collegea u Londonu, voditeljicom desetogodišnjeg projekta ASPIRES koji se bavi upravo problematikom razvoja aspiracija i profesionalnih odabira u STEM području. Kroz sve navedene aktivnosti ostvareni su svi ciljevi predviđeni u drugoj projektnoj godini.