Research Sample Profiling

该项目的目标是了解教育和学习研究的多学科和跨学科（MIDR）性质，以及它是如何随着时间的推移而发展的，重点是认知科学，这是一个对教育研究特别重要的领域。来自搜索技术公司的研究人员将研究由两个NSF教育研究项目（ROLE和REESE）资助的提案。他们将使用他们设计的文献计量方法，审查提案中引用的参考文献，以确定项目的MIDR性质。他们还将分析由这些项目产生的出版物，并通过引用这些出版物的论文跟踪研究知识的传播。研究人员还将重点关注关键认知科学家的工作和高引用的ROLE/ reese衍生出版物。利用社会网络分析和科学制图，研究人员将追踪STEM社区参与这项教育研究的情况。该项目旨在推进测量、分析和可视化工具，以帮助量化科学和科学政策。尤其值得一提的是，这些研究为被大肆吹捧、但鲜有衡量的MIDR提供了经验证据。对于希望了解各自领域趋势的STEM教育研究人员，对于传统上不参与彼此文献的认知科学和教育研究社区，以及科学政策分析师和项目开发人员，这些结果应该具有重要意义。

The goal of the project is to understand the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary (MIDR) nature of education and learning research and how it has developed over time, with a focus on cognitive science, an area of particular importance to education research. Investigators from Search Technology Inc will study proposals funded by two NSF education research programs (ROLE and REESE). Using bibliometric methods they devised, they will examine the references cited in the proposals to characterize the MIDR nature of the projects. They will also analyze the publications produced by the projects and track the dissemination of that research knowledge via the papers that cite those publications. The investigators will focus additionally on the work of key cognitive scientists and highly-cited ROLE/REESE-derived publications. Using social network analysis and science mapping, the investigators will track STEM community engagement with this educational research.The project seeks to advance measurement, analysis, and visualization tools to help quantify science and science policy. In particular, these offer empirical evidence on much-touted, but little measured, MIDR. The results should have important implications for STEM education researchers who wish to understand trends in their fields, for cognitive science and education research communities that have traditionally not engaged one another's literatures, and for science policy analysts and program developers.