NCT07447661

STEM As I Am Phase I

STEM As I Am: A Culturally Relevant Media-enhanced Tool for Engaging Black Middle School Students and Their Families in STEM

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 138 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Black students experience significant achievement gaps that contribute to underrepresentation in high paying STEM fields and disparity in health and economic outcomes. Effective middle-school interventions include exposure to culturally relevant STEM role models, instruction in academic behaviors and growth mindset, instruction in the academic vocabulary required to pass high stakes achievement tests, and support for family engagement. The goal of this proposal is to develop a media-enhanced technology that offers Black middle school students and their families a culturally responsive support tool for engaging in STEM learning in the home setting.

Detailed description

The feasibility test will consist of a 6-week intervention to assess the program's relevance, acceptability, cultural appropriateness, and potential for efficacy. The study will use a within-subjects pre-post design with 50 parent-student dyads to detect changes in student word knowledge, academic enabling behaviors, mindset, academic self-efficacy, and interest in STEM. Measures will also detect changes in parent word knowledge, use of AV words in the home, and self-efficacy with regard to AV use and academic support behaviors. Additionally, a post-test evaluation of consumer satisfaction, technology acceptability, and recommendations for modifications to the program will be administered to both students and their parents/guardians. Usage reports will be collected from the technology's backend system to measure frequency and duration of student and parent engagement with the technology components as well as numbers of correct/incorrect responses.

Conditions

• Academic Support for Black Middle School Student Success in STEM

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Technology-based educational intervention	Mobile app to deliver culturally responsive role modeling and evidence-based instruction (modeling, practice, feedback) in the academic vocabulary, behaviors, and mindset that underlie STEM success.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-08-01
• Primary completion: 2027-01-31
• Completion: 2027-03-31
• First posted: 2026-03-03
• Last updated: 2026-03-31