EAGER: Research to Practice Cooperative Strategic Development Project

美国印第安人高等教育联盟将与西班牙裔学院和大学协会、全国高等教育机会均等协会和其他利益攸关方合作，开发一个模式，缩小扩大参与研究和实践之间的差距。项目设计团队将采用战略方法，为扩大利益相关者关系的参与网络制定框架，这将显著提高STEM教育计划和倡议对相关研究结果、计划评估和由此得出的建议的响应性，这些计划和倡议侧重于代表性不足的人群。智力价值：该项目将应用合作理论来管理国家扩大参与(可能更广泛地学习科学)研究资源和扩大参与实践之间的联系的问题。该项目的成功证明，对现实世界资源分配问题的模拟可以获得具有共同意图的密切互动群体的分布式解决问题的能力，而且涉及包括广泛分布的知识和激励系统的不同行为者在解决复杂资源生态系统内的资源分配问题方面是有效的。战略规划项目将检验这样一种假设，即扩大参与研究的实践问题是可以在这一框架内解决的。广泛的影响：该项目将建立战略方法对一个重大的国家资源管理问题的适用性，从而确认一个解决广泛的国家问题的模式，包括教育改革和更广泛的社会动力领域的其他问题。拟议的工作将提供丰富的数据集，用于定制涉及广泛行业、社区、政府和组织的复杂利益相关者生态系统中的未来战略迭代。

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium, in collaboration with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, and other stakeholders, will develop a model for closing the gap between broadening participation research and practice. The project design team will employ a strategic methodology, to develop the framework for a broadening participation network of stakeholder relationships, which should significantly increase the responsiveness of STEM education programs and initiatives focusing on underrepresented populations to relevant research findings, program evaluations, and recommendations derived from them.Intellectual Merit:The project will apply cooperative theories to the problem of the management of the connection between national broadening participation (and possibly more broadly learning sciences) research resources and broadening participation practice. The successes of the project have established that simulations of real-world resource allocation problems access the distributed problem-solving ability of closely interacting groups sharing a common set of intentions, and that involving a diverse set of actors encompassing a broad distribution of knowledge and motivational systems is effective in solving resource allocation problems within a complex resource ecosystem. The strategic planning project will test the hypothesis that the Broadening Participation Research to Practice problem is solvable within this framework.Broader Impacts:The project will establish the applicability of strategic methodology to a major national resource management issue, thereby providing confirmation of a model for addressing a broad range of national issues, including education reform, and other problems within the broader sphere of social dynamics. The proposed work will provide a rich data set that will be used to customize future strategic iterations within complex stakeholder ecosystems involving a wide range of industries, communities, governments, and organizations.