Connections: STEM Educational Research Communities and Knowledge Transfer

该项目由Search Technology， Inc.和佐治亚理工学院（Georgia Institute of Technology）共同开展，旨在更好地理解科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育中研究思想的交流方式。该项目将使用文献计量学分析来研究研究出版物如何相互引用的模式，绘制STEM教育研究和认知科学研究中的思想流。这个项目将有助于展示对STEM教育研究的关键影响，以及是什么使STEM教育研究具有影响力。该项目旨在帮助STEM教育研究界发展和更好地利用其研究基地，并与其他领域的研究人员有效合作。教育和人力资源理事会的学习研究司支持这项工作，作为其推进STEM教育研究（包括STEM学习研究）使命的一部分。该项目的第一阶段将包括分析涵盖广泛出版研究的数据库，检查引用模式。第二阶段将重点关注由国家研究委员会出版的有影响力的报告《人们如何学习》，并包括对内容的文本分析。第三阶段将涉及与研究界的联系。

This project, conducted by Search Technology, Inc., and Georgia Institute of Technology, will seek to better understand how research ideas are communicated in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. The project will use bibliometric analysis to study patterns in how research publications cite each other, mapping the flow of ideas within STEM education research as well as cognitive science research. This project will help show what are the key influences on STEM education research, and what makes STEM education research influential. This project will aim to help the STEM education research community develop and make better use of its research base, and work effectively with researchers from other fields. The Division of Research on Learning in the Education and Human Resources directorate supports this work as part of its mission to advance STEM education research, including research on STEM learning. The first stage of the project will involve analyzing data bases covering a broad range of published research, examining patterns of citation. The second stage will focus on the influential report, How People Learn, published by the National Research Council, and include textual analysis of content. The third stage will involve outreach to the research community.