In Support of Mobilizing STEM Education for a Sustainable Future

支持动员 STEM 教育以实现可持续的未来

• 批准号: 0849934
• 负责人: Susan Millar
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Mobilizing; STEM; Education; Sustainable

Assessment / Research (91) Social Sciences - Other (89) Interdisciplinary (99) This project is a modest yet important expansion of an ongoing project to create a team of "Critical Advisors" to formulate a new framework for improving postsecondary resources to meet global challenges (DUE-0744106). The immediate goal of both the predecessor project and 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 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 enlarges the group of critical advisors. During its first year of work, the earlier project discovered through careful analysis of critical knowledge and skills that it needed to enlarge the planned size of this group by 25 percent. The combined project is now known as the "Mobilizing STEM Education for a Sustainable Future" project. The project focuses on postsecondary institutions, which are critical in developing these capacities because they educate natural and computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, and also K-12 teachers, policymakers, and workers in business and industry. After they are successfully recruited, the subsequent analyses, creative thinking, and recommendations of the critical advisors 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.

评估/研究（91）社会科学-其他（89）跨学科（99）该项目是一个正在进行的项目的适度但重要的扩展，旨在创建一个“关键顾问”团队，以制定一个新的框架，以改善高等教育资源，以应对全球挑战（du -0744106）。前一个项目和本项目的直接目标都是阐明明确的新理论，通过该理论来利用高等教育机构的变革，使他们接受并利用现有的循证知识和资源进行STEM教育。长期目标是将利用高等教育变革的新理论转化为行动战略，动员和协调STEM研究人员、教育工作者和已经在寻求提高STEM后教育质量和机会的组织的努力；并使STEM教育改革社区的协作贡献得以实现和维持。辅助目标是成功地鼓励高等教育机构和STEM部门重新平衡其价值观和奖励制度，以更容易地认识到并使教学成为当前和未来STEM教师的重要专业角色，作为一种奖学金形式，并成为STEM本科生在K-12级别受人尊敬的职业道路。这个项目扩大了批判性顾问的群体。在第一年的工作中，早期的项目通过对关键知识和技能的仔细分析发现，它需要将该小组的计划规模扩大25%。这个联合项目现在被称为“动员STEM教育实现可持续未来”项目。该项目的重点是高等教育机构，这些机构对发展这些能力至关重要，因为它们培养的是自然和计算机科学家、数学家和工程师，以及K-12教师、政策制定者和工商业工作者。在他们被成功招募后，关键顾问的后续分析、创造性思维和建议将被综合并分发给STEM高等教育社区。工作范围包括：(1)参加由国家研究委员会计划和执行的两个研讨会，在一份配套拨款提案中描述；(2)准备并参加作为该项目的一部分的两次CA会议；（三）综合两次行政长官会议提出的意见和建议；(4)准备、提交和分发国家努力小组的最终报告，该报告将CA会议的综合成果与NRC研讨会的成果相结合。