Collaborative Research: A Conference to Promote the Integration of Research on Undergraduate Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Education

评估/研究(91)本项目是普渡大学和圣地亚哥州立大学基金会的STEM教育研究人员合作开展的项目。该项目寻求通过召集本科数学、物理和化学教育领域的顶尖研究人员参加两次为期四天的密集会议，来改变数学和科学教育研究进行和报道的划分方式。这些会议旨在通过让以学科为基础的教育研究人员和大量研究生参与数学和科学教育来创建协作研究计划和建设综合工作的能力。会议的主题是将具有互补兴趣和专业知识的跨学科研究人员联系在一起。这些会议将推动数学、物理和化学领域的教育研究的整合，使之能够比单独取得更快的进展。分享跨学科的见解以及跨学科研究的成果，有可能导致更强有力的研究方法，适合所有三个社区使用，发展共同感兴趣的领域和联系，以及发展变革性的综合做法。为了促进数学、物理和化学教育界的研究人员之间的合作，该项目在每次会议上提供三笔同行评审的微型赠款。这些将促进所需的跨学科研究，以解决数学、物理和化学教育中常见的探究领域。该项目团队包括在本科数学、物理和化学教育方面获得国家认可的研究人员，他们曾在各自领域组织过国内或国际会议。该项目提供了一个在数学、物理和化学教育领域的研究人员之间建立社区和联系的一流机会，并将这些扩展到生物、工程和学习科学的教育研究人员。将高级研究生和博士后纳入进来，可以培养各领域的合作研究能力。通过在这些学科内部和之间分享新的发现，社区可以分享观点，以加强这些会议产生的研究和实践的成果，并扩大其影响。在研究界之外，这个项目的发现可以用来挑战当前的课堂实践，并引导出新的想法，创造有可能直接影响STEM教育实践的教育材料和教学战略。该项目将通过全面支持21名研究生来建设能力，这些研究生表示有希望建立一个涉及数学和科学教育之间合作的研究项目。一个外部评估员小组将通过基于结果的混合方法设计来记录和评估项目的有效性，他们因其对以学科为基础的教育研究做出的贡献而备受推崇。

Assessment/Research (91) This project is a collaborative project conducted by STEM education researchers from Purdue University and the San Diego State University Foundation. The project seeks to transform the compartmentalized way in which mathematics and science education research is conducted and reported by bringing together leading researchers in undergraduate mathematics, physics, and chemistry education for two four-day intensive conferences. The conferences are designed to create collaborative research programs and build capacity for integrative work by involving discipline-based education researchers and a significant number of graduate students in mathematics and science education. The theme of the conferences is to connect researchers across disciplines with complementary interests and expertise to one another. The conferences will drive forward the integration of education research in mathematics, physics and chemistry, enabling more rapid advances than could otherwise be achieved independently. Sharing insights across disciplines as well as results from cross-disciplinary studies has the potential to lead to more robust research methodologies suited for use in all three communities, the development of areas of common interest and connectivity, and the development of transformative integrated practices. To promote collaboration among researchers in the math, physics, and chemistry education communities, the project offers three peer-reviewed mini-grants at each conference. These will foster the interdisciplinary research needed to address areas of inquiry common to math, physics, and chemistry education. The project team includes nationally recognized researchers in undergraduate mathematics, physics, and chemistry education who have organized national or international conferences in their fields. The project offers a first-rate opportunity to build community and connections among researchers in mathematics, physics, and chemistry education and to extend these to education researchers in biology, engineering, and the learning sciences. The inclusion of senior level graduate students and post-docs builds capacity across fields for collaborative research. By sharing emergent findings within and across these disciplines, the communities can share perspectives to strengthen the outcomes of research and practices that emerge from these conferences and broaden their impact. Beyond the research community, the findings from this project can be used to challenge current classroom practices and to lead to new ideas for creating educational materials and teaching strategies that have the potential for directly impacting educational practices in STEM. The project will build capacity by fully supporting 21 graduate students who show promise of building a research program that involves collaborations between math and science education. A team of external evaluators, who are highly regarded for their contributions to discipline-based education research, will document and assess the effectiveness of the project through an outcome-based, mixed method design.