Engaging Critical Advisors to Formulate a New Framework for Change: Expansion of "Toward a National Endeavor to Marshal Postsecondary STEM Educ Resources to Meet Global Challenges"

评估/研究(91)社会科学--其他(89)跨学科(99)本项目的直接目标是阐明明确的新理论，以便利用高等教育机构的变革，使它们能够在STEM教育中采用和使用现有的循证知识和资源。国家研究委员会的一个配套项目(DUE-0745112)提供了大部分循证知识，其中包括与当前全球挑战相关的课程，促进所有学生有效参与和学习的教学和评估方法，以及教师和研究生的专业发展战略。一个较长期的目标是将利用高等教育变革的新理论转化为行动战略，以动员和协调STEM研究人员、教育工作者和已经寻求提高中学后STEM教育的质量和机会的组织的努力；并使STEM教育改革社区能够并保持其合作贡献。一个辅助目标是成功地鼓励高等教育机构和STEM系重新平衡它们的价值观和奖励制度，以便更容易地承认和支持教学作为当前和未来STEM教师的宝贵职业角色，作为一种形式的奖学金，并作为STEM本科生在K-12水平上受人尊敬的职业道路。该项目正在采用搜索战略，以确定和邀请关键顾问(CA)参加两个单独的讲习班和另外两个会议。CA是具有与项目目标相关的专业知识的个人。在他们被成功录取后，他们随后的分析、创造性思维和建议将被综合起来，并分发给STEM高等教育界。工作范围包括：(1)参加国家研究理事会计划和执行的两个研讨会，如配套赠款提案中所述；(2)筹备和参加作为本项目一部分的两个CA会议；(3)综合在两个CA会议上提出的想法和建议；以及(4)准备、介绍和分发国家奋进小组的最终报告，该报告将CA会议的综合与NRC研讨会的结果结合在一起。

Assessment / Research (91)Social Sciences - Other (89)Interdisciplinary (99)The immediate goal of this project is to articulate explicit and new theory by which to leverage change in institutions of higher education such that they take up and use existing evidence-based knowledge and resources for STEM education. A companion NSF project at the National Research Council (DUE-0745112) is providing the bulk of the evidence-based knowledge, which includes curricula relevant to current global challenges, pedagogical and assessment approaches that promote effective engagement and learning among all students, and strategies for the professional development of both faculty and graduate students. A longer term goal is to translate new theory for leveraging change in higher education into strategies for action that will mobilize and coordinate the efforts of STEM researchers, educators, and organizations already seeking to improve quality and access in postsecondary STEM education; and also enable and sustain the collaborative contributions of this STEM education reform community. An ancillary goal is to successfully encourage institutions of higher education and STEM departments to rebalance their values and reward systems to more readily recognize and enable teaching as a valued professional role for current and future STEM faculty, as a form of scholarship, and as a respected career path at the K-12 level for STEM undergraduates. This project is employing search strategies in order to identify and invite critical advisors (CAs) to two separate workshops and two additional meetings. CAs are individuals with expertise pertinent to the project goals. After they are successfully recruited, their subsequent analyses, creative thinking, and recommendations will be synthesized and distributed to the STEM higher education community. The scope of work entails: (1) participation in two workshops planned and executed by the National Research Council, described in a companion grant proposal; (2) preparation for and participation in two CA meetings as part of this project; (3) synthesis of ideas and recommendations offered at the two CA meetings; and (4) preparation, presentation, and distribution of a final National Endeavor Team report that integrates the synthesis of the CA meetings with the outcomes from the NRC workshops.