Advancing Knowledge and Building the Research Infrastructure in Education and STEM Learning

该项目延续了AERA资助计划的工作，该计划为博士生和教育研究科学家提供有竞争力的研究资助，他们对国家教育统计中心（NCES）的大规模国内和国际数据集进行二次分析。该项目还将开展两项新的工作：(1)通过与城市研究所管理的国家教育研究纵向数据分析中心的合作，该项目可以访问和使用国家纵向数据库，用于学生在STEM中的学习、表现和成就的科学研究；(2)一个程序化的组成部分，以促进对nsf资助的研究者发起的有机会进一步发现的STEM项目中出现的数据的二次分析。AERA资助计划旨在提高STEM教育领域的能力，通过其资助、研讨会的研究成果以及探索STEM教育研究关键问题的“智库”活动产生的出版物，利用大规模数据集进行高质量的研究。

This project continues the work of the AERA Grants Program, which provides competitive research grants to both doctoral students and education research scientists who conduct secondary analyses of large-scale national and international data sets from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The project also will carry out two new strands of work: (1) through a partnership with the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, managed by the Urban Institute, the project enables access to and use of state longitudinal data bases for scientific research on student learning, performance, and achievement in STEM; and (2) a programmatic component to foster secondary analysis of data emerging from NSF-funded investigator-initiated STEM projects that have opportunities for further discovery will be explored. The AERA Grants Program seeks to increase the capacity of the STEM education field to conduct high quality research using large-scale data sets through its grants, the findings from workshops, and the publications resulting from "think tank" activities that explore critical issues in STEM education research.