Building and Sustaining Research-Practice Partnerships for Equity in STEM Education

该项目正在建立一个由STEM研究人员、地区和学校领导人、正式和非正式教育工作者以及社区联盟组成的社区，这些社区致力于建立和维持研究-实践伙伴关系，以改善STEM教育。研究-实践伙伴关系是实践者和研究人员之间的长期合作，旨在调查实践中的问题和改善教育系统结果的解决方案。在STEM教育中，由国家科学基金会资助的数学和科学伙伴关系项目是设计伙伴关系的例子，这些伙伴关系将高等教育领域的主题专家、数学和科学教育研究人员以及学区聚集在一起。这一项目的具体目标是：(1)建立博士和早期职业研究人员网络的知识和技能，他们能够与地区、非正式教育组织和社区联盟形成并保持长期伙伴关系，侧重于改善STEM；(2)创建一个成熟的研究-实践伙伴关系网络，侧重于下一代数学和科学学习和公平，以产生资源和知识，使新的伙伴关系受益；以及(3)发展关于有效的伙伴关系战略以及如何最好地支持侧重于伙伴关系工作的学者网络和研究-实践伙伴关系网络的知识。这项工作的一个基本前提是，STEM的大规模改进需要新的机会和基础设施，以促进研究和实践之间的持续交流。这项努力的主要产品是：-由实践者和研究人员共同开发的一套网络可访问资源(包括研究报告、实用工具和简短视频剪辑)，涉及建立和维持伙伴关系，开发和使用实施和结果证据来指导伙伴关系的设计，在面对变化的情况下维持伙伴关系，以及促进伙伴关系中的公平、包容和利用伙伴关系多样性的战略。-一套基于网络参与者的经验的指导方针，为从事伙伴关系工作的研究人员做好准备。-一份供出版的白皮书，介绍伙伴关系工作的案例研究，链接到基于网络的资源，并利用研究-实践伙伴关系的活动和成就。-一份特别关注博士生和早期职业研究人员纵向成果的评估报告。

This project is building a community of STEM researchers, district and school leaders, formal and informal educators, and community coalitions engaged in building and sustaining research-practice partnerships to improve STEM education. Research-practice partnerships are long-term collaborations between practitioners and researchers that are organized to investigate problems of practice and solutions for improving the outcomes of educational systems. In STEM education, Math and Science Partnership projects funded by the National Science Foundation are examples of design partnerships that bring together subject matter experts in higher education, mathematics and science education researchers, and school districts. Other examples can be found among partnerships in which a network of formal and informal education organizations are linked together and with researchers to organize more robust and equitable learning ecologies for youth.The specific objectives for this project are to: (1) Build knowledge and skill of a network of doctoral and early career researchers who can form and maintain long-term partnerships with districts, informal education organizations, and community coalitions focused on STEM improvement; (2) Create a network of mature research-practice partnerships focused on next generation mathematics and science learning and equity that produces resources and knowledge to benefit new partnerships; and (3) Develop knowledge about effective partnership strategies and about how best to support a network of scholars focused on partnership work and a network of research-practice partnerships. A basic premise for this work is that STEM improvement at scale requires new opportunities and infrastructures for fostering ongoing exchange between research and practice.The key products of this endeavor are:- A set of web-accessible resources (including research reports, practical tools and brief video clips) co-developed by practitioners and researchers related to forming and maintaining partnerships, developing and using implementation and outcome evidence to guide design in partnerships, sustaining partnerships in the face of change, and strategies for promoting equity, inclusion, and leveraging diversity in partnerships.- A set of guidelines, grounded in the experiences of network participants, for the preparation of researchers to engage in partnership work.- A white paper for publication that presents case studies of partnership work, linked to the web-based resources, and that draws on activities and accomplishments of the research-practice partnership.- An evaluation report that pays particular attention to longitudinal outcomes for doctoral students and early career researchers.