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STEM教育研究人员的合作项目。该项目旨在通过将本科数学、物理和化学教育领域的主要研究人员聚集在一起，举行两次为期四天的密集会议，改变数学和科学教育研究进行和报告的分割方式。这些会议旨在通过学科教育研究人员和大量数学和科学教育研究生的参与，建立合作研究项目和综合工作能力。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起来。这些会议将推动数学、物理和化学教育研究的整合，使其取得比单独取得的更快的进展。分享跨学科的见解以及跨学科研究的结果，有可能产生更强大的研究方法，适用于所有三个社区，发展共同感兴趣和连通性的领域，以及发展变革性的综合实践。为了促进数学、物理和化学教育界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小额赠款。这将促进解决数学、物理和化学教育共同探究领域所需的跨学科研究。项目团队包括国内公认的本科数学、物理和化学教育的研究人员，他们在各自的领域组织了国内或国际会议。该项目为在数学、物理和化学教育领域的研究人员之间建立社区和联系提供了一流的机会，并将其扩展到生物学、工程学和学习科学领域的教育研究人员。包括高级研究生和博士后建立跨领域的合作研究能力。通过分享这些学科内部和跨学科的新发现，社区可以分享观点，以加强这些会议产生的研究和实践成果，并扩大其影响。在研究界之外，该项目的研究结果可用于挑战当前的课堂实践，并为创建教育材料和教学策略带来新的思路，这些思路和策略有可能直接影响STEM的教育实践。该项目将通过全面支持21名有希望建立一个涉及数学和科学教育合作的研究项目的研究生来建立能力。一组外部评估人员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，这些评估人员因其对基于学科的教育研究的贡献而受到高度重视。

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.