STEM Educational Change Efforts in Higher Education: A Meta-Synthesis of Activities, Strategies, Concepts, and Theories across Disciplines

本项目建议对三个领域的学者的研究文献和观点进行批判性审查、整合和调整：以学校为基础的STEM教育研究人员（SER），他们专注于课程和教学材料的变化;教师发展研究员（FDR），谁专注于改变教师和高等教育研究人员（HER）他们评估支持或阻碍变革的各个组织级别的政策和结构。该方法将是对三篇研究文献的综合合成，然后是四x四分类方案：通过对未来工作最有希望的变革概念和理论来变革活动和策略。(One每一项文献会被分类或多个类别，而证据可靠的文献会优先纳入计划。）该项目的最终目的是支持STEM教学改进的跨学科研究和实践议程的发展。这一过程将加强采访10个领先的从业人员在每个领域，其次是德尔菲技术，因为实践往往是没有具体的文献。这个综合项目的成果将用于确定：1）改变活动，战略，概念和理论跨社区2）不同文献之间的共同主题; 3）证据支持每一个变化活动和战略;和4）未来的研究，理论建设和资金有前途的方向。

This project proposes to critically review, integrate, and align the research literatures and perspectives of scholars in three fields: the Disciplinary-based STEM Education Researchers (SER), who focus on change in curricula and pedagogical materials; the Faculty Development Researchers (FDR), who focus on changing faculty and the Higher Education Researchers (HER) who evaluate the policies and structures at various organizational levels that support or impede change. The method will be a meta-synthesis of the three research literatures followed by a four x four classification scheme: change activities and strategies by change concepts and theories that have the most promise for future work. (One or more classifications will be given to each literature entry and literature with credible evidence will be given priority in the scheme.)The ultimate aim of the project is to support the development of an interdisciplinary research and practice agenda for STEM instructional improvement. This process will be strengthened by interviews with 10 leading practitioners in each area followed by the Delphi technique, because practice is often not specified in the literature. The outcomes of this synthesis project will be used to identify: 1) change activities, strategies, concepts, and theories across communities 2) common themes among disparate literatures; 3) evidence to support each change activity and strategy; and 4) promising directions for future research, theory-building, and funding.