SCIENCE OF LEARNING: HOW CAN IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Connecting Research to Policy and Practice in Education

该提案支持美国研究人员参加由科学家、教育从业者和决策者组成的国际会议。该奖项支持由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、经合组织教育研究与创新中心（CERI）和联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）联合主办的一系列3次国际科学家会议。计划的会议包括：(a)由上海神经科学研究所主办的学习科学研讨会，将重点介绍美国学习科学中心的研究，与来自亚洲和欧洲的其他参与者探讨共同或互补的兴趣领域；(b)研究人员和教科文组织代表之间的非正式互动活动，讨论具体案例研究及其与相关研究的联系；(c)经合发组织/教科文组织/国家科学基金会会议，主要讨论关于学习的研究进展及其对教育实践和政策的影响；(d)由华东师范大学、上海师范大学和香港大学合办的学术研讨会，更广泛地介绍中国研究人员的工作。学习是一个具有广泛社会影响的重要研究课题。提议的活动通过以下方式促进研究进展和研究人员应对教育挑战的能力：1)将国际研究人员聚集在一起，整合他们对跨学科边界学习的理解；(2)讨论和传播有关学习的科学知识，使之对教育从业者和政策制定者易于理解和有意义；(3)促进这些不同群体之间的合作，从而将科学发现更有效地整合到未来的教育和政策创新中。各国之间分享思想、成功经验和失败经验的机会将促进新的思维和新的伙伴关系，以更好地应对教育面临的挑战。拟议活动的更广泛影响包括：(1)发展、采用和适应在不同国家被证明是成功的有效的学习和/或教学模式；(2)建立新的国际学习研究合作，整合跨学科观点的知识，以推进方法和理论；(3)在各国的政策制定者、从业者和更广泛的受众中更好地理解学习研究的价值；(4)促进更稳定的伙伴关系，促进研究与实践之间的互惠交流。

This proposal supports the participation of US researchers in an international gathering of scientists, educational practitioners and policy makers. This award supports a series of 3 international meetings of scientists that are jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The set of planned conferences include: (a) a Science of Learning Symposium hosted by Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience that will highlight research from the US Science of Learning Centers to explore areas of common or complementary interests with other participants from Asia and Europe, (b) a day for informal interactive activities among researchers and UNESCO representatives to discuss specific case studies and their links to relevant research; (c) the OECD/UNESCO/NSF meeting which is centered around discussion of advances in research about learning and their implications for educational practice and policy; and (d) a Learning Symposium hosted by East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai Normal University, and the University of Hong Kong which will provide an even broader presentation of work by Chinese researchers.Learning is an important research topic with broad societal impacts. The proposed activities promote advances in research and researchers' ability to address educational challenges by: 1) bringing together an international group of researchers to integrate their understanding of learning across disciplinary boundaries; (2) to discuss and to disseminate scientific knowledge about learning in ways that are accessible and meaningful to educational practitioners and policy makers; and (3) promote collaborations among these disparate communities that would lead to more effective integration of scientific findings to future innovations in education and policy. The opportunity for sharing ideas, successes and failures across countries will facilitate new thinking and new partnerships to better address the challenges faced in education. Broader impacts of the proposed activities include: (1) the development, adoption and adaptation of effective models of learning and/or teaching that have proven successful in various countries, (2) establishment of new international research collaborations on learning that integrate knowledge across disciplinary perspectives to advance methods and theory, (3) create a better understanding of the value of learning research among policymakers, practitioners, and broader audiences across countries, and (4) promote more stable partnerships to facilitate reciprocal exchanges between research and practice.